you know that feeling you get when you see something so beautiful that your whole being is at peace for a split second?  those moments are important.

write them down if you can.  they will teach you later when you need it.  don't rely on memory.

maybe it is not understanding we need
in this life
maybe all we need is
a little appreciation.


appreciate everything.


by, me

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." 


"What you are comes to you."


"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you."


- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"search your own heart with all diligence for out of it flow the issues of life"

... somewhere in psalms i believe 

"You have merely painted what is!  Anyone can paint what is; the real secret is to paint what isn't."


-Oscar Mandel

"I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates and spits and drips, and is heavy and course and blunt and sweet and stupid as life itself."


- Claes Oldenburg, 1961