Foxglove
“Conform and be dull.”
J. Frank Dobie, 1888-1964
American folklorist and writer from Texas
Monthly Archives: May 2009
Suffering
“By suffering comes wisdom.”
Aeschylus, 525-456 B.C.
Ancient Greek playwright
On the Spine of Time
Holston River below the Weir Dam
“Sooner or later you’ve got to let loose of certainty’s hand and leap.
Jump. Believe in something, like mountains and mountain streams,
trout and mountain people.”
Harry Middleton, 1949-2003
Southern nature writer
Where Mountain and Atom Meet
View from the Blue Ridge Parkway near Grandfather Mountain
“Ancient haze lies on the mountain
smoke-blue, strange and still
a presence that eludes the mind and
moves through a deeper kind of knowing.
It is nature’s breath and more –
an aura from the great I Am
that gathers to its own
spirits that have gone before.
Deep below the valley waters
eerie and hid from view
the atom splits without a sound
its own trace a fine blue glow
rising from the fissioned whole
and at its core
power that commands the will
quiet that strikes the soul,
‘Be still and know . . . I Am.’”
Marilou Awiakta, b. 1936
Cherokee/Appalachian writer and storyteller
Where I Need to Be
Red Trillium
“I’m not running, and I’m not walking fast.
I’m going where I need to be.”
Johnny McEntyre
Learn From Them
Farmhouse Gallery, Unicoi
“Many men have been just as troubled
morally and spiritually as you are right now.
Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles.
You’ll learn from them–if you want to.
Just as someday, if you have something to offer,
someone will learn something from you.
It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement.
And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.”
J.D. Salinger
The Catcher In The Rye
Sounds like James
“Knowing is not enough; We must Apply.
Willing is not enough; We must Do.”
Goethe
Desire & Regret
“We alternate between desire and regret.”
Seneca
Universal Language
“Everybody laughs in the same language.”
Unknown
Earth’s Music
Trillium blooming along Appalachian Trail on Unaka Mountain
“The earth has music for those who listen.”
William Shakespeare
Easy?
Rhododendron blossom opening
“Whenever the going seems easy
you are on the wrong road.”
Unknown
Happy Birthday, Mom
Collecting shells at OBX with my mom (right) and aunt (left)
“I remember my mother’s prayers
and they have always followed me.
They have clung to me all my life.”
Abraham Lincoln
A Working Mood
“That book is good which puts me in a working mood.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hurry
“A wise man does not try to hurry history.”
Adlai Stevenson, 1900-1965
American politician
Thinking and Yearning
“What is a thousand years?
Time is short for one who thinks,
endless for one who yearns.”
Alain, 1868-1951
French philosopher
Taking Time
“Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.”
Abraham Lincoln
Slipping Away
Columbine
“Time is slippery.”
Kim Linder
Vacation
Foxglove
“The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.”
Unknown
Growing Up
“There’s no point in being grown up
if you can’t be childish sometimes.”
Dr. Who
Hush
Columbine
“The best way to become boring is to say everything.”
Voltaire
Use It All
“When I stand before God at the end of my life,
I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left,
and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me.’”
Erma Bombeck
Procrastination
Merrybell
“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.”
Don Marquis, 1878-1937
American humorist and journalist
First or Last
Trillium, Lower Higgins Creek
“Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.”
Betty Smith
Flowers, Too
“Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.”
A. A. Milne, 1882-1956
English author, best known for Winnie-the-Pooh
