Words

 

“The Four Freedoms.”  At the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Washington, D.C.

Words are not just words.  They have moods, climates of their own.

~ Osho

Twenty minutes

Icy morning.

Winter then in its early and clear stages, was a purifying engine that ran unhindered over city and country, alerting the stars to sparkle violently and shower their silver light into the arms of bare upreaching trees.  It was a mad and beautiful thing that scoured raw the souls of animals and man, driving them before it until they loved to run.

~ Mark Helprin, Winter’s Tale

Monumental

Washington Monument

Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.

~ David Brinkley

Swamped

A glimpse of a mermaid

Live in
the sunshine,
swim in the sea,
drink the wild air

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A Sunday night walk in D.C.

The candy shop window. (Washington, D.C.)  From left to right:  The Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument, and the Jefferson Memorial.

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

You are here*

Along the Pathway to Peace which surrounds the National Christmas Tree in Washington, D.C.

Travel brings power and love back into your life.

~ Rumi

In the beginning

In the conservatory.

so this is the sound of you
here and now whether or not
anyone hears it this is
where we have come with our age
our knowledge such as it is
and our hopes such as they are
invisible before us
untouched and still possible

~ W. S. Merwin, To the New Year