Let the beauty we love be what we do. Rumi

Mission San Juan Capistrano
Begun in 1797, the church took nine years to build. On the Feast of Immaculate Conception in 1812, a massive earthquake struck. The walls crumbled and the domes caved in, killing 42 Indian worshipers. The church was never rebuilt. The majestic ruins became known as the American Acropolis.

In the human heart there is a perpetual generation of passions; so that the ruin of one is almost always the foundation of another. François de la Rochefoucauld

Mission San Juan Capistrano
Side chapel dedicated to St. Peregrine, patron saint of cancer sufferers.

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Gilda Radner

*update* i didn’t realize when i posted this last night that LKHend (Muse) has passed away earlier this month from cancer. thank you winniezpoo for letting me know.

LK introduced me to Art Exchange where fellow xanga artists could share a site for art and be inspired by one another. it was a fun and exciting each time we had a new theme to share with our xangan community. LK was a wonderful spirit and her presence here on xanga will be missed dearly.

Vision — It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own. Robert Collier

Mission San Juan Capistrano

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most. St. Jerome

Mission San Juan Capistrano

The power to bring me out of solitude – or to push me back into it – had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine. Martha Beck

(re-post from July 2003)

This photo was taken in Boston while I was walking on the Freedom Trail.

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
Jane Addams