Fall Color on the Mountain

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
~Maya Angelou

Throw your dreams

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
~Anais Nin, The Diaries of Andis Nin

La Push

They’re just cliff diving, Bella. Recreation. La Push doesn’t have a mall, you know.
~Jacob Black, New Moon, Chapter 7, p.171 by Stephanie Meyer

Cold Water

The idea of perfect closes your mind to new standards.. When you drive hard toward one ideal, you miss opportunities and paths, not to mention hurting your confidence. Believe in your potential and then go out and explore it; don’t limit it.
~John Eliot

Dreams of a Dog

"For those who despair that their lives are without meaning and without purpose, for those who dwell in a loneliness so terrible that it has withered their hearts, for those who hate because they have no recognition of the destiny they share with all humanity, for those who would squander their lives in self-pity and in self destruction because they have lost the saving wisdom with which they were born, for all these and many more, hope waits in the dreams of a dog, where the sacred nature of life may be clearly experienced without the all blinding filter of human need, desire, greed, envy and endless fear.
~One Door Away From Heaven, Dean Koontz

Climb the mountain

“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings...”
~John Muir

Sail Away

Make voyages! - Attempt them! - there's nothing else...
~Tennessee Williams, Camino Real
US dramatist (1911 - 1983)

Fall Hummer

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged
bird that cannot fly.
~Langston Hughes

Grey Whale

To The Last Whale
~Graham Nash and David Crosby

Over the years you have been hunted by the men who threw harpoons
And in the long run we will kill you just to feed the pets we raise
Put the flowers in your vase and make the lipstick for your face
Over the years you swam the ocean following feelings of your own
Now you are washed up on the shoreline I can see your body lie
It's a shame you have to die to put the shadow on our eye
Maybe we'll go, maybe we'll disappear
It's not that we don't know, it's just that we don't want to care
Under the bridges, over the foam, wind on the water, carry me home
Over the years you swam the ocean following feelings of your own
Now you are washed up on the shoreline I can see your body lie
It's a shame you have to die to put the shadow on our eye
Under the bridges, over the foam, wind on the water, carry me home

please check out Animal Planet tonight and watch Whale Wars
www.seashepherd.org

I Have a Dream

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every tenement and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old spiritual, "Free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last."
-- "I Have a Dream" speech, August 28, 1963

For our country

America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this.

~Barack Obama, Nomination Acceptance Speech, 08-28-08

For my mom

I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.
~Shirley Chisholm (1924 - 2005)