Wind And Waves

This photo taken in a moment of excitement sprinkled with fear and anxiety. The mood of the picture fits the night that followed. A night that stirred some emotions…

” I teach myself because I search, because I question and because I submit myself to questioning. I research because I notice things. Take cognizance of them. In so doing, I intervene and intervening I educate and educate myself. I write so as to know what I do not yet know and to communicate and proclaim what I discover.”

“Education must enable young people to effect what they have recognized to be right, despite hardships, despite dangers, despite inner skepticism, despite boredom, and despite mockery from the world. . . .”

“When I look back on the years since I left college and try to sum up what I have learned, it is precisely that: not to fear change, nor to expect my life to be immutable. All the good things that have happened to me in the last several years have come, without exception, from a willingness to change, to risk the unknown, to do the very things I feared most. Every poem, every page of fiction I have written has been written with anxiety, occasionally panic, and always uncertainty about its reception. Every life decision I have made—from changing jobs to changing partners to changing homes—has been taken with trepidation. I have not ceased to be fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as a part of life, specifically the fear of change, the fear of the unknown. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: Turn back, turn back; you’ll die if you venture too far.”
Erica Jong [Read more →]

The rainbows of the mind brighten the skies of our life with color, grace and contrast against stormy clouds.

Art is communication….. “Reach out of the deep chasm of loneliness and express yourself to another human being. Write so they understand. Art is communication. Taste the bitterness of isolation, and from that place feel a kinship and compassion for all people who have been alone. Then in your writing, lead yourself out of it by thinking of someone and wanting to express your life to him. Reach out in your writing to another lonely soul. Use loneliness. Its ache creates urgency to reconnect with the world. Take that aching and use it to propel you deeper into your need for expression, to speak, to say who you are and how you care about light and rooms and lullablyes.”
~Natalie Goldberg