Life

So listen to this fleeting world:
A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream,
A flash of lightning in a summer cloud,
A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.

-Diamond Sutra

Which is worth more, a crowd of thousands,
or your own genuine solitude?
Freedom or power over an entire nation?

A little while alone in your room
will prove more valuable than anything else
that could ever be given you.
-Rumi

lessons.

http://www.ago.net/playing-with-pictures

beautiful new exhibit.

cubic meter of space

Imagine a cubic meter of space: empty it of your conception of that space: what you are then left with is like death.
-Jean Berger

childhood wild flowers:

queen anne's lace/ daucus carota

LOVE ARMED

by: Aphra Behn

LOVE in fantastic triumph sat,
Whilst bleeding hearts around him flowed,
For whom fresh pains he did create,
And strange tyrannic power he showed,
From thy bright eyes he took his fire,
Which round about, in sport he hurled;
But 'twas from mine, he took desire,
Enough to undo the amorous world.

From me he took his sighs and tears,
From thee his pride and cruelty;
From me his languishments and fears,
And every killing dart from thee;
Thus thou and I, the god have armed,
And set him up a deity;
But my poor heart alone is harmed,
Whilst thine the victor is, and free.