“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
Tag: Quotes
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
Wordy Wednesday- Hobby Edition
“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte
Vintage thread, my Grandma Shirley’s pincushion and handmade name pin, folding ruler we found in our house, buttons, lace scraps. Beautiful quilt art from a UP artist.
More buttons! Unknown antique Singer attachments, new mini sewing box!
“The only thing more dangerous then a vampire crazed with blood lust was a vampire crazed with anything else. All the meticulous single-mindedness that went into finding young women who slept with their bedroom window open got channeled into some other interest, with merciless and painstaking efficiency…”
― Terry Pratchett, The Truth
Movie Theater, Pool Hall/Detective Office, Barber Shop
“I love crafting. Knitting, decoupage, scrapbooking, any “lady-ish” art form, I’m a fan. For about six months each. Then I shove all the supplies in a closet, alongside the skeletons of long dead New Year’s resolutions, like saber fencing, playing the ukulele, and Japanese brush painting.”
― Felicia Day, You’re Never Weird on the Internet
Above: Parisian Restaurant, 50’s Diner (!!), Pet Shop, Apartments, Brick Bank/Laundry Mat
Simple Sunday
“I kind of think of my life as this incredible hurricane of so many adventures. We can all make a difference, and we can all be courageous and believe in ourselves.” – Bindi Irwin
“I always told myself that if I was going to be given a voice, I might as well say something worth listening to and not something that’s just going to feed people stupidity.” – Alessia Cara
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.” – Amelia Earhart
“Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.” – Anna Quindlen
“The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.” – Eleanor Roosevelt