Simple Sundays

Simple Sunday- Innovation

“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.” –Steve Jobs

“However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.” – J. K. Rowling

“What makes the United States great, the reason people wanted to live in the United States, move here still, is because of our ability to innovate.” – Bill Nye

“Who could have imagined that life would have taken such marvelous twists and turns or that I would often be so fortunate to be in the right place at the right time?” –Julie Andrews

“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”- Albert Einstein

“My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.”- Clara Schumann

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Simple Monday- Adventure

“As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was about to happen.” -Winnie the Pooh

“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.” – Amelia Earhart

“The world is not in your books and maps, it’s out there.” -J.R.R. Tolkien

“I think it’s my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may.” – Leonard Nimoy

“Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.” – Edwin Powell Hubble

“Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.” – Elie Wiesel

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Simple Sunday

“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.” – Henry David Thoreau

“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.” – Aristotle

“…and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?” – Vincent van Gogh

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” – Albert Einstein

“Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.” – Theodore Roethke

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Simple Sunday- Family

“We define family in many different ways: not just by blood but by people with whom we find a common ground and a common bond.”- Adrienne C. Moore

“Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing.” – Irina Shayk

“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.”- Richard Bach

“Eating well, being around the table with the family or friends or relatives – it doesn’t get any better.” – Lidia Bastianich

“Love isn’t a perfect state of caring. It’s an active noun, like ‘struggle.’ ” – Fred Rogers

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Simple Sunday- Art

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.” ― Leonardo da Vinci

Picture: “Oh Joy!”

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” ― Pablo Picasso

Picture: “A UP Winter”

“The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation.” ― Michelle Obama

“What gives my art the most meaning is when I can connect with others through it. When people say that my music has helped them, or it makes them feel good, or it inspires them, that is what gives my art lasting meaning to me.” – Lindsey Stirling

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” – Aristotle

My family lost a dear artist friend this week who painted and created amazing glass items from earrings to sculptures. The pictures in this post are all works that I am privileged to own.

Simple Sundays

Simple Sunday- Shark Week Edition

“If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn’t worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it’s life or death.” – Morgan Freeman

“What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.” ― Werner Herzog

“See the line where the sky meets the sea? It calls me

And no one knows, how far it goes

If the wind in my sail on the sea stays behind me

One day I’ll know, if I go there’s just no telling how far I’ll go.” -Disney’s Moana

“It’s the colors that will make you stray. They sing to you, the not-blue and the searing light, and no matter how tightly you tie yourself to the inbetween, eventually you will break free. No one swims only in the shallow water.”

― Betsy Cornwell, Tides

“The sea is very beautiful and gives us many things, but it must be understood and respected, or it will slap you …” – J.Z. Colby, Journey

“Every time you dive, you hope you’ll see something new – some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives you a gift, sometimes it doesn’t.”

― James Cameron

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Simple Sunday- Space!

All pictures are from the NASA website and are free of copyright restrictions. Go download some excellent space pictures!

https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/index.html

“There’s a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after the Wright Brothers’ first flight.” – Buzz Aldrin

“Just as the lunar landings inspired many young people to consider careers in space and related fields, the solution of the challenging instrumentation problems presented in space science can inspire young people to push beyond the current state of the art.” – Nancy Roman

Dr. Nancy Roman, pictured with a model of the Orbiting Solar Observatory

“More women should actively participate in space flight. There are many well educated women working in the space industry; they are very good candidates.” – Valentina Tereshkova

“Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson

“It’s a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one’s safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.” – Alan Shepard

“I hope to continue to inspire our nation’s youth to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math so they, too, may reach for the stars.” – Ellen Ochoa

“The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.” – Neil Armstrong

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Simple Sunday- Star Trek Edition

“Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.” — Spock

“Without freedom of choice there is no creativity.” — Captain James T. Kirk

“Live now; make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again.” – Jean-Luc Picard

“You can’t go through life trying to avoid getting a broken heart. If you do, it’ll break from loneliness anyway.” – Dr. Bashir

“There’s an old saying, ‘Fortune favors the bold.’ Well, I guess we’re about to find out.” — Sisko (Deep Space Nine)

Commander William T. Riker: “It’s just that our mental pathways have become accustomed to your sensory input patterns.”

Lt. Commander Data: “Hm. I understand. I am also fond of you, Commander. And you as well, Counselor.”

― Star Trek: The Next Generation

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Simple Sunday- Play

“The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.” -Erik H. Erikson

“The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.”- Neil Gaiman

“If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.” ― John Cleese

“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” – Plato

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Simple Sunday- Summer

“Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.” – Eleonora Duse

“If your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.” – Bill Watterson

“Nature doesn’t need people – people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the human being and go on just fine, but human culture, human beings, cannot survive without nature.” – Harrison Ford