Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard‘s rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment – a little makes the way of the best happiness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Daily Archives: January 29, 2009
Don’t forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. May Sarton
Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying. (Put an empty cigarette pack on your nose for a horn and make loud “snort” noises.) I don’t know why parents don’t do this more often. Usually it makes the kid laugh. Sometimes it sends him into shock. Either way it quiets him down. If you’re a parent, acting like a rhino has another advantage. Keep it up until the kid is a teenager and he definitely won’t have his friends hanging around your house all the time.
P. J. O’Rourke
"It’s hard to be serious when you’re naked."
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
Ogden Nash
Ua se moo le sosolo, He is a lizard crawling. Of a disobedient lad. Samoa.
This saying is used as a warning to any one who is following a course that must lead to ruin. It is as if one said, You are like an infant crawling towards the fire circle (in the middle of a Kaffir hut), who is sure to get burnt.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/xft/xft27.htm
FOTO – MAD O’BRIAN 2009 LINDEN LEA
dumplings over flowers. japanese proverb
Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don’t understand the concept.
Paul Westerberg
FOTO- MAD O’BRIAN ARMIDALE 2008
Flowers grow out of dark moments. Corita Kent
As from a large heap of flowers many garlands and wreaths are made, so by a mortal in this life there is much good work to be done. ~ Buddha
Oh, the wild engine!
Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.
E. M. Forster
FOTOS – CASINO RAILWAY STATION NSW 2008
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I wat where my own shoe binds me. Scottish Pappity Stampoy (1663)
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. ~John Muir, 1913
FOTO – ARMIDALE CEMETERY 2008
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If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk, you can sing. —Zimbabwe Proverb
Singing birds don’t build nests.
Cameroonian Proverb
FOTO- BUDDHA BELLY CAFE UKI 2008
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Sand And Foam
“Insults should be written in sand, compliments should be carved in stone.”
Arab Proverb
FOTOS – FINGAL HEAD NSW
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Beware of the man of one book.
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
Gaston Bachelard
FOTO – CLARENCE VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 2008
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Dancing is poetry of the foot.
Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with the heart is another.
WINTERSUN COOLANGATTA 2008
Thinking is the essence of wisdom. Persian Proverb
Upon completing a highly dangerous tightrope walk over Niagara Falls in appalling wind and rain, ‘The Great Zumbrati’ was met by an enthusiastic supporter, who urged him to make a return trip, this time pushing a wheelbarrow, which the spectator had thoughtfully brought along.
The Great Zumbrati was reluctant, given the terrible conditions, but the supporter pressed him, “You can do it – I know you can,” he urged.
“You really believe I can do it?” asked Zumbrati.
“Yes – definitely – you can do it.” the supporter gushed.
“Okay,” said Zumbrati, “Get in the wheelbarrow…”
— Let your actions show you have faith.
KALANG 2008
an illimitable ocean of inexplicability
“People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars…. and they pass by themselves without wondering.”
St. Augustine
Pottsville 2009
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SILVER THREADS AND GOLDEN NEEDLES 