Stand Where You Stand by Berton Braley Start where you stand and never mind the past, The past won't help you in beginning new, If you have left it all behind at last Why, that's enough, you're done with it, you're through; This is another chapter in the book, This is another race that you …
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Chains of Circumstance
"We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance - and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain." - Mark Twain Your perspective is conditioned by and subject, in part, to your experience. Education …
A Class Act
"Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life." - Ann Landers Class is no respecter of financial means or social standing, in …
An Angel in Disguise
"Every man is an angel in disguise, a god playing the fool." - Ralph Waldo Emerson Even if you are acting perfectly you might find that there is not always a ground or earth to your positive expression. Whether you call this unrequited love or some other name, you'll have to meet this eventuality. Not …
The Winged Priest
Forsooth this wingless, glovèd beast Delays my flight away. Doth he not know the wingèd priest Who rules the skies today?
Submitting to Mastery
Most hawks will stand on a falconer's glove within the first few minutes of being trapped from the wild. The hawk will likely puff himself up to look menacing and spread his wings to appear larger, but he will stand there and not bate (jump) from the glove despite his distrust and fear. It's a …
Of Indeterminate Nature
I came across a fabulous piece of literature written by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola in 1486 (at the age of 23), just six years before Columbus sailed to the Americas. Pico della Mirandola had a wonderful capacity for syncretism, a double-edged sword that likely lead to his eventual poisoning for challenging the status quo. The …
Call Down the Hawk
The Hawk by William Butler Yeats 'Call down the hawk from the air; Let him be hooded or caged Till the yellow eye has grown mild, For larder and spit are bare, The old cook enraged, The scullion gone wild.' 'I will not be clapped in a hood, Nor a cage, nor alight upon wrist, …
The Highest Time of Living
Merry Autumn by Paul Lawrence Dunbar It's all a farce,—these tales they tell About the breezes sighing, And moans astir o'er field and dell, Because the year is dying. Such principles are most absurd,— I care not who first …
Weekly Photo Challenge: Geometry
I'm loving the WordPress photo challenges! Here was the challenge: Geometry. This challenge is about the shapes and rhythms that make up the geometry of our world. Many photographs of any genre have an underlying sense of geometry, but I often like to make this the main subject of my work. I think it’s the most important …
Gregory Hake 