Z for Zephyr

“And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. But most of all, I learned that life is about sitting on benches next to ancient creeks with my hand on her knee and sometimes, on good days, for falling in love.”
― Nicholas Sparks

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This post forms a part of the Blogging for A to Z Challenge. A quote a day based on the chosen word. A photograph that means something to me in relation to the word, but may not to you.

Y for .... Youth

“I'm not young enough to know everything.”
― J.M. Barrie, The Admirable Crichton

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This post forms a part of the Blogging for A to Z Challenge. A quote a day based on the chosen word. A photograph that means something to me in relation to the word, but may not to you.

Q is for .... Quarrel

“Look at children. Of course they may quarrel, but generally speaking they do not harbor ill feelings as much or as long as adults do. Most adults have the advantage of education over children, but what is the use of an education if they show a big smile while hiding negative feelings deep inside? Children don't usually act in such a manner. If they feel angry with someone, they express it, and then it is finished. They can still play with that person the following day.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

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This post forms a part of the Blogging for A to Z Challenge. A quote a day based on the chosen word. A photograph that means something to me in relation to the word, but may not to you.

O is for.... On Your Own

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go!

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This post forms a part of the Blogging for A to Z Challenge. A quote a day based on the chosen word. A photograph that means something to me in relation to the word, but may not to you.

E for Empowerment

“When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet, of some mute and inglorious Jane Austen, some Emily Bronte who dashed her brains out on the moor or mopped and mowed about the highways crazed with the torture that her gift had put her to. Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

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This post forms a part of the Blogging for A to Z Challenge. A quote a day based on the chosen word. A photograph that means something to me in relation to the word, but may not to you.

Because it never ends

“Perhaps it is too late. I want to run
the beach's length, because it never ends.”
- Deborah Ager 
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Words. Images. Thoughts. Ideas. Generalizations. Specifics. Stream of Consciousness.

All we have to decide.....

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” 

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Nothing finer than

“Seven, ten, fifteen, eighteen years old and still there is nothing finer than a blank sheet of paper, the white promise that the world can be what I make it. A magical place, an adventurous place, a possible place. Erasers take away the mistakes. Another coat of paint to cover them up. Black and red and purple and blue. Always Blue.”
― Stacey Jay, Juliet Immortal
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Words. Images. Thoughts. Ideas. Generalizations. Specifics. Stream of Consciousness.
Things either just fall into place, or not!

Fairy tales

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein
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Words. Images. Thoughts. Ideas. Generalizations. Specifics. Stream of Consciousness.
Things either just fall into place, or not!

joy of running

"Run often and run long, but never outrun your joy of running."

~ Julie Isphording

so we can play

“The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play."

Arthur C. Clark, 

The 'Busy' Trap

Prepare the Future

November 14 is celebrated as Childrens' Day in India, to commemorate the birth of our first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru.

“We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Words. Images. Thoughts. Ideas. Generalizations. Specifics. Stream of Consciousness. Things falling into place, or not!

the worst culinary disaster

“in the abstract art of cooking,
ingredients trump appliances,
passion supersedes expertise,
creativity triumphs over technique,
spontaneity inspires invention,
and wine makes even the worst culinary disaster taste delicious.”
― Bob Blumer
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Words. Images. Thoughts. Ideas. Generalizations. Specifics. Stream of Consciousness.
During the month of October, I am going to just watch things fall into place, or not!

The Quantum Theory

“The very nature of the quantum theory ... forces us to regard the space-time coordination and the claim of causality, the union of which characterizes the classical theories, as complementary but exclusive features of the description, symbolizing the idealization of observation and description, respectively.” 
― Niels Bohr
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Words. Images. Thoughts. Ideas. Generalizations. Specifics. Stream of Consciousness.
During the month of October, I am going to just watch things fall into place, or not!

Anything worth knowing

“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
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Words. Images. Thoughts. Ideas. Generalizations. Specifics. Stream of Consciousness.
During the month of October, I am going to just watch things fall into place, or not!

seeds of hope

"When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope."

~Professor Wangari Maathai

chase those dreams

"When we wake up in the morning, we have two simple choices; 

go back to sleep and dream, or wake up and chase those dreams."

Walk in the rain

“Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.” 

Roger Miller

With Fitting In

Each of us has a hero inside us and a uniqueness that we may not see at first, because we are so concerned with "fitting in."

- Greg Louganis

A good mother

“There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one” 

- Jill Churchill