Bits and Clips for October 2024
I hope you find something among all this artwork, photography, memes, links, and quotes that spurs you on, inspires, supports, educates, or motivates you.
Ideas
America Awakening (Book Review)
I can’t recommend this book highly enough, and only wish I read it sooner, so I could recommend it sooner.
Follow the Shining Ones (Sayings in Verse by the Buddha)
Follow them as the moon follows the path of the stars.
It’s the Little Things that Create Excellence (Quote by Daniel Chambliss)
Superlative performance is really a confluence of dozens of small skills or activities, each one learned or stumbled upon, which have been carefully drilled into habit and then are fitted together in a synthesized whole.
Sail Forth with no Despair (Quote by Clarissa Pinkola Estes)
Sailing on Agitated Waters (acrylic) by Polly Castor “There will always be times in the midst of ‘success right around the corner, but as yet still unseen’ when you feel discouraged. I too have felt despair many times in my life, but I do not keep a chair for it; I will not entertain it. … Read more
Bits and Clips for September 2024
I hope you find something among all this artwork, photography, memes, links, and quotes that spurs you on, inspires, supports, educates, or motivates you.
My Loyalty is to the Inner Vision (quote by Mary Oliver with comment by me)
Does focus on one’s inner vision compromise one’s outward life?
Think Again (Book Review)
Getting yourself to “think again” is one thing, but getting someone else to do so can be quite another…
Grace Notes #55 (with Photos)
I am furthering my ongoing goal of appreciating such a continuous, overflowing abundance of random good.
All Things Collaborate (Marcus Aurelius Quote with Photos)
“Think always of the universe as one living creature, made of one substance and one soul: how all is absorbed into this one consciousness; how a single impulse governs all its actions; how all things collaborate in all that happens; the very web and mesh of it all.” by Marcus Aurelius … Read more
Bits and Clips for August 2024
I hope you find something among all this artwork, photography, memes, links, and quotes that spurs you on, inspires, supports, educates, or motivates you.
Creative Arts Camp 2024 (Inspirational Bits and Cherry Island Swim Photos)
“There is no impact but Love.”
What is a Friend? (Quote by C. Raymond Beran)
A friend? What is a friend? Just one, I repeat, with whom you dare to be yourself.”
To Not Love is More of a Risk
Loving is the whole point of life, and to not love is the greatest risk of all.
Stillness is Un-Conflicted (Quote by Erich Schiffmann)
Stillness is not the absence or negation of energy, life, or movement. Stillness is dynamic.