The things that we have and that we think are so solid – they’re like smoke, and time is like the sky that the smoke disappears into … nothing is left but the sky, and the sky keeps on being just the same forever. Booth Tarkington

IcePik No.12

Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified. Ralph Waldo Emerson

A Palm in Texas
taken by my Mom aka The Beacon Light

…wonder where I get all my talent? The apple apparantly doesn’t fall to far from the tree

Can anyone guess what this is a photo of? Inspired by the “mystery job” entry at PPR Journal.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses. ~George Bernard Shaw

ars longa, vita brevis
art is long, but life is short.

Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. Hans Margolius

IcePik No. 11

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved. William Jennings Bryan