Brick

"They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time." ~Dorothy Day


Day 31

Clarinet

"I look at my clarinet sometimes and I think, I wonder what's going to come out of there tonight? You never know."~Acker Bilk

Day 30

Health of the Mind

"The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind." ~G.K. Chesterton

Day 29

The World

"The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are."~ Thomas Dreier

Day 28

Eyes of a Dreamer

Day 27

Nuts and Bolts

"Details create the big picture." ~Sanford I. Weill



Day 26

Perfect Pleasure

A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want? ~Oscar Wilde


Day 25

Sandbox Tree

Yes, this is a word.


Day 24

Ping Pong Ball Terror

"Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is."---- German Proverb

Some Champagne

"I only drink Champagne when I'm happy, and when I'm sad. sometimes I drink it when I'm alone. When I have company, I consider it obligatory. I trifle with it if I am not hungry and drink it when I am. Otherwise I never touch it - unless I'm thirsty."~Lily Bollinger

Day 22 (My Mom's 50th Birthday!)

A little doll from China

"We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings."~F.H. Bradley


Day 21

So it begins...

The future is always beginning now. ~Mark Strand

Day 20

Details...

"Beware of the person who can't be bothered by details." ~William Feather

Day 19

Kitchen Experiment #5 (last one)

"I am in no way interested in immortality, but only in the taste of tea."~Lu tung



Day 18

Kitchen Experiment #4

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. ~C.S. Lewis

Day 17

Kitchen Experiment #3

“If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster."~Clint Eastwood

Day 16

Kitchen Experiment #2

“When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer, her fingers plying the food with the dexterity of a croupier.” ~Craig Claiborne

Day 15

Kitchen Experiment #1

“I think that they should call a cheese grater by its real name...a sponge ruiner.” ~Mitch Hedberg

Day 14

Coffee

A morning without coffee is like sleep. ~Author Unknown

Day 13

I always like the quotes I find by him...

The eye is the jewel of the body. ~Henry David Thoreau


Day 12

Siren

“Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Day 11

Wisdom

I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue. ~Cato


Day 10

An Ocean...

“My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected.”

Day 9

Night Tree

I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.~Edward Steichen

Day 8

Mad with Joy

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. ~Iris Murdoch


Day 7

Flyer

I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Day 6

January Sky

There is more to life than increasing its speed. ~Mohandas K. Gandhi

Day 5

Whisper

His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets. ~Dorothy Parker

Day 4

Breathings of your heart...

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~William Wordsworth

Day 3

Praying

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue. ~Adam Clarke

Day 2

Crayons

A box of new crayons! Now they're all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they'll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic. ~Bill Watterson

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