Vulture Cafe

Winter Ocean

2010-12-11T14:04:00.000-08:00

This busy, puzzling stirrer-up of doubt, That frames deep mysteries,
then finds "em out.
~John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
"A satire Against Mankind"

Memories

2010-10-22T08:39:00.000-07:00

Life brings simple pleasures to us every day. It is up to us to make them wonderful memories.
~ Cathy Allen

Whatever you feel

2010-10-12T06:00:00.000-07:00

Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.
~T. S. Eliot
British (US-born) critic, dramatist & poet (1888 - 1965)

View from the side of the road

2010-10-08T06:00:00.000-07:00

And all my days are trances,
And all my nightly dreams,
Are where thy dark eye glances,

And where thy footstep gleams
In what ethereal dances
By what eternal streams.

E.A. Poe, To One in Paradise

Happiness

2010-09-27T06:00:00.000-07:00

Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.

~William H. Sheldon

SeaStars

2010-09-20T06:00:00.000-07:00

If the point is sharp, and the arrow is swift, it can pierce through
the dust no matter how thick.

Bob Dylan (1941 - )

Dune grass

2010-09-13T10:30:00.000-07:00

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints
his own nature into his pictures.

~Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887), Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887

Value

2010-09-06T06:00:00.000-07:00

Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does.

~James Hilton (1900 - 1954)

Joy

2010-08-30T06:00:00.000-07:00

He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in Eternity's sunrise.
~William Blake

Time

2010-08-23T06:00:00.000-07:00

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
~Saint Francis de Sales (1567 - 1622)

Truth

2010-08-16T06:00:00.000-07:00

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.
~Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)

Tree Frog

2010-08-11T06:00:00.000-07:00

You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?

~Bernadette Peters, Inside the Actors Studio

Mare and foal

2010-08-04T06:00:00.000-07:00

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

~Saint Francis de Sales (1567 - 1622)

Wonder

2010-07-28T06:00:00.000-07:00

Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms. No other species wonders about the meaning of existence or the complexity of the universe or themselves.

~Herbert W. Boyer, co-founder of Genentech, Inc.

I like living

2010-07-21T06:00:00.000-07:00

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

~Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)

Foxglove

2010-07-14T06:00:00.000-07:00

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

~George Sand (1804 - 1876)

Growing older

2010-07-07T06:00:00.000-07:00

It is a sadness of growing older that we lose our ardent appreciation
of what is new and different and difficult.
~Elizabeth Aston
The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005

Red-shouldered Hawk

2010-06-30T06:00:00.000-07:00

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
~Edgar Allan Poe, Berenice
US short story author, editor, & poet (1809 - 1849)

Boardwalk

2010-06-23T06:00:00.000-07:00

Little by little, one travels far.
~J. R. R. Tolkien
British scholar & fantasy novelist (1892 - 1973)

Bump

2010-06-16T06:00:00.000-07:00

Even with the best of maps and instruments,
we can never fully chart our journeys.
~Gail Pool

The Lady Washington

2010-06-07T06:00:00.000-07:00

Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you.

~John De Paola

Great Horned Owls

2010-06-04T06:00:00.000-07:00

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindnesses, and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort.
~Sir Humphry Davy

Sunset walk

2010-06-02T06:00:00.000-07:00

He not busy being born is busy dying.

~Bob Dylan (1941 - )

Bushtit Nest

2010-05-31T06:00:00.000-07:00

Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing.

~Albert Schweitzer

Eastern Grey Squirrel

2010-05-28T06:00:00.000-07:00

I don't know what I am thinking
I don't know what I am drinking
I don't know what pills I swallow
I don't know that inside I'm hollow
I don't know that I am speaking
I don't know that my brain is leaking
I don't know that they cant see
I don't know, especially me

~Tim Burton

Rufus Hummingbird

2010-05-26T06:00:00.000-07:00

If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something,
I can neither give nor receive.
~Dorothee Solle

Stream

2010-05-24T06:00:00.000-07:00

Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.
~Barbara Hall,
A Summons to New Orleans, 2000

Sunset

2010-05-21T06:00:00.000-07:00

Nobody can tell you if what you're doing is good, meaningful or worthwhile. The more compelling the path, the more lonely it is.

~Hugh Macleod,
How To Be Creative: 5, 08-22-04

Golden-crowned Sparrow

2010-05-19T06:00:00.001-07:00

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a
journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
~Marcel Proust
French novelist (1871 - 1922)

Chestnut-backed Chickadee

2010-05-17T06:00:00.000-07:00

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
~Abraham Lincoln
16th president of US (1809 - 1865)

Momentum

2010-05-14T06:00:00.000-07:00

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction
when it could be turned into momentum.
~Frances Willard (1839 - 1898)

Tule Elk

2010-05-12T06:00:00.000-07:00

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

~Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000

Riding

2010-05-10T06:00:00.000-07:00

It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.
~unknown

Sunrise

2010-05-07T06:00:00.000-07:00

You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

~John Wooden (1910 - )

Duckling

2010-05-05T06:00:00.000-07:00

We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.
~unknown

Washington Coast

2010-05-03T06:00:00.000-07:00

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...
But I am too busy thinking about myself.
~Edith Sitwell, As quoted in The Observer (30 April 1950)
English biographer, critic, novelist, & poet (1887 - 1964)

Truth

2010-04-30T06:00:00.000-07:00

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
~Josh Billings, 'Affurisms from Josh Billings: His Sayings,' 1865
US Humorist (1818 - 1885)

Clouds

2010-04-28T06:00:00.000-07:00

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
~Anatole France
French novelist (1844 - 1924)

Friends

2010-04-26T06:00:00.000-07:00

Friends are born, not made.
~Henry Adams
US author, autobiographer, & historian (1838 - 1918)

Sunrise

2010-04-23T06:00:00.000-07:00

“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and
life stands explained.”
~Mark Twain

Succulent

2010-04-21T06:00:00.000-07:00

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
~Walt Whitman

Gulls on the Oregon Coast

2010-04-19T06:00:00.000-07:00

It's always been about the experience of life and of not being passive. If something so excites my curiosity, I want to go there, be a part of whatever it is that's either pushing me or pulling me toward it. That desire for experience has made me very rich in life experience.
~Tish Grier, love and hope and sex and dreams, 04-12-2006

Spring

2010-04-16T06:00:00.000-07:00

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
~Vernon Howard

Shadows

2010-04-14T06:00:00.000-07:00

So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling,
dawdling and puttering.
~Brenda Ueland

Sunset

2010-04-12T06:00:00.000-07:00

The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
~Jane Goodall
English ethologist & zoologist (1934 - )

Garter Snake eating slug

2010-04-09T06:00:00.000-07:00

Little by little, one travels far.
~J. R. R. Tolkien
British scholar & fantasy novelist (1892 - 1973)

Sea anemone

2010-04-07T06:00:00.000-07:00

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
~Oprah Winfrey

Bridges

2010-04-05T06:00:00.000-07:00

When you build bridges you can keep crossing them.
~Rick Pitino
Lead to Success

Red-legged Frog

2010-04-02T06:00:00.000-07:00

When I'm not doing something that comes deeply from me, I get bored. When I get bored I get distracted and when I get distracted, I become depressed. It's a natural resistance, and it insures your integrity.
~Maria Irene Fornes

Bald Eagle

2010-03-31T06:00:00.000-07:00

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
~Edgar Allan Poe, Berenice
US short story author, editor, & poet (1809 - 1849)

Flow

2010-03-29T06:00:00.000-07:00

“I flow with life.
It makes things so much easier than to have things my way all the time.”

~Peter Koslowski

Boardwalk

2010-03-26T06:00:00.000-07:00

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
~William Faulkner
US novelist (1897 - 1962)

Healing

2010-03-24T06:00:00.000-07:00

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - peace is the measure.
~George Melton

Umpqua River Lighthouse

2010-03-22T06:00:00.000-07:00

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.
~Henry George
US economist (1839 - 1897)

Action

2010-03-19T06:00:00.000-07:00

The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
~Andre Gide
French critic, essayist, & novelist (1869 - 1951)

Ecstatic

2010-03-17T06:00:00.000-07:00

I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience.
~Shakti Gawain

Full moon

2010-03-15T06:00:00.000-07:00

"Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine."
~Buddha

I Am

2010-03-12T06:00:00.000-08:00

The words 'I am...' are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.
~A. L. Kitselman

Storms

2010-03-10T06:00:00.000-08:00

Storms make oaks take deeper root.
~George Herbert
English clergyman & metaphysical poet (1593 - 1633)

Attention

2010-03-08T06:00:00.000-08:00

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.
~Tryon Edwards
(1809 - 1894)

Red-breasted Sapsucker

2010-03-05T06:00:00.000-08:00

We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.
~Ethel Barrett

The Storm

2010-03-03T06:00:00.000-08:00

They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.
~Dorothy Parker,
'Fair Weather,' Sunset Gun, 1928
US author, humorist,
poet, & wit (1893 - 1967)

Power

2010-03-01T06:00:00.000-08:00

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?
~Lois McMaster Bujold,
A Civil Campaign, 1999
US science fiction author

Persist

2010-02-26T06:00:00.000-08:00

We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
~Tobias Wolff
In Pharaoh's Army

Stress

2010-02-24T06:00:00.000-08:00

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.
~Natalie Goldberg

Times of change

2010-02-22T06:00:00.000-08:00

"In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."
~Eric Hoffer

Appreciate Nature

2010-02-19T06:00:00.000-08:00

Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve.
~Joan Borysenko

The Dawn

2010-02-17T06:00:00.000-08:00

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up.
~Anne Lamott

Harmony

2010-02-15T06:00:00.000-08:00

"The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.
A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that
places harmony in one's life."

~Peace Pilgrim

Wildflowers

2010-02-12T06:00:00.000-08:00

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
~Oscar Wilde

Tree

2010-02-10T06:00:00.000-08:00

"Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone."
~Czesław Miłosz

The Tide

2010-02-08T06:00:00.000-08:00

A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.
~Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider,
Northern Exposure, Northern Lights, 1993

Tranquility

2010-02-05T06:00:00.000-08:00

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves,
it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French author & moralist (1613 - 1680)

Spending Time

2010-02-03T06:00:00.000-08:00

"Are you spending time doing what you love? Are you inspired by your life? Do you have someone you admire and want to emulate? Do you have a vision for your life? These things are some of the things you need to be the best you, so that authentic footprint becomes your service to others. Sing your song. Life is short. Fear is a waste of your valuable time."
~Colette Baron-Reid

Dog

2010-02-01T06:00:00.000-08:00

dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child.
OK, a good education, then a dog.
~John Grogan, An Interview with John Grogan, 2008

Never regret

2010-01-29T06:00:00.000-08:00

"Never regret something that once made you smile."
~Amber Deckers,
Ella Mental and the Good Sense Guide

Wisdom

2010-01-27T06:00:00.000-08:00

"Wisdom is the quality that keeps you
from getting into situations where you need it."
~Doug Larson

Love what you love

2010-01-25T06:00:00.000-08:00

"You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on
your knees for a hundred miles through the desert,
repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of
your body love what it loves."
~Mary Oliver
(American Poet)

Dream

2010-01-22T06:00:00.000-08:00

"It hurts to find out that what you wanted
doesn't match what you dreamed it would be."
~Randy K. Milholland
Something Positive Comic, 09-07-04
Webcomic pioneer

Passionately curious

2010-01-20T06:00:00.000-08:00

I have no special talents, I am only passionately curious.
~Albert Einstein

Time

2010-01-18T06:00:00.000-08:00

"All that really belongs to us is time;
even he who has nothing else has that."
~Baltasar Gracian

Nature

2010-01-15T06:00:00.000-08:00

"The one universal ever-operating law throughout has been the law of change. Nature never stands still and never duplicates herself. Life is always in the process of becoming something else."
~Laurence M. Gould

Tenderness

2010-01-13T06:00:00.000-08:00

Real strength is not just a condition of one's muscle,
but a tenderness in one's spirit.
~McCallister Dodds

See through my eyes

2010-01-11T06:00:00.000-08:00

"I see through my eyes, not with them."
~William Blake

Inner wisdom

2010-01-08T06:00:00.000-08:00

Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.
~Robbie Gass

Generosity

2010-01-06T06:00:00.000-08:00

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone
who will never find out.
~Frank A. Clark

Sea Grass

2010-01-04T06:00:00.000-08:00

“Mentor: Someone whose hindsight can become your foresight”
~unknown

Truth

2010-01-01T06:00:00.000-08:00

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.
~Mother Jones

Love makes you see a place differently

2009-12-30T06:00:00.000-08:00

Love makes you see a place differently, just as you hold differently an object that belongs to someone you love. If you know one landscape well, you will look at all other landscapes differently. And if you learn to love one place, sometimes you can also learn to love another."
~Anne Michaels

Trueness

2009-12-28T06:00:00.000-08:00

You must dare to disassociate yourself from those who would delay your journey... Leave, depart, if not physically, then mentally. Go your own way, quietly, undramatically, and venture toward trueness at last.
~Vernon Howard

Hope and Peace

2009-12-25T06:00:00.000-08:00

Hope is a thing with feathers
that perches on your soul.
~Emily Dickinson

Seashells

2009-12-23T06:00:00.000-08:00

I have a large seashell collection,
which I keep scattered on beaches
all over the world.
~Steven Wright

Eyes open

2009-12-21T06:00:00.000-08:00

There is no end to the adventures that we can have
if only we seek them with our eyes open.
~Jawaharlal Nehru
Indian politician (1889 - 1964

Sky Watch Friday

2009-12-18T08:11:00.000-08:00

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.
~Unknown

Going down the road

2009-12-16T06:00:00.000-08:00

A pony is a childhood dream,
a horse is an adulthood treasure.
~Rebecca Carrol

Love

2009-12-14T06:00:00.000-08:00

Love is the big booming beat which covers up
the noise of hate.
~Margaret Cho, weblog, 01-15-04

Each forward step

2009-12-11T06:00:00.000-08:00

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
~John Lancaster Spalding

Relax

2009-12-09T06:00:00.000-08:00

"Tension is who you think you should be.
Relaxation is who you are."
~Chinese proverb

Call back Summertime

2009-12-07T06:00:00.000-08:00

I'd like to
call back Summertime
and have her stay
for just another
month or so...

~Joni Mitchell
Urge for Going

Happy as you are

2009-12-04T06:00:00.000-08:00

You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are.
Jeph Jacques,
Questionable Content webcomic,
#352, 05-04-05