In Our Own Heart

If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

–Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Nobel laureate for literature, Soviet Gulag survivor

Hartwick Pines, Michigan

 

Beauty’s Persuasion

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade,
The eyes of men without an orator.

William Shakespeare 

The Au Sable River, in northern Michigan.

Au Sable River, Michigan

By Nature’s Presence Enfolded

That sense of serenity and peace we find in nature–is that mildly intoxicating feeling the surfacing of long-forgotten memories of being enfolded in the love of a caretaker?

Newburgh Lake, Michigan

 

Spring’s Floral Merriment

The Earth laughs in flowers

Ralph Waldo Emerson

and the effervescent  stream rushing past joins in the chorus.

The Possible Dream

Some people see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.

George Bernard Shaw, and oft quoted by Robert Kennedy

River Rouge, Michigan

The Cure Is Curiosity

The cure for boredom is curiosity.  There is no cure for curiosity.

Dorothy Parker

Kensington Park, Michigan

Kensington Park, Michigan

Pigeon River state forest, Michigan

 

 

Beauty Endures

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

Leonardo Da Vinci

(a  summer view in southeast Michigan)

Newburgh Lake, Michigan