Spring Starts

"And beauty is a form of genius--is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation." --Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Leaves, Flowers, Snowflakes, Human Beings, Depression

"No two people have the same depression. Like snowflakes, depressions are always unique, each based on the same essential principles but each boasting an irreproducibly complex shape." - Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon

The Melt

"Let yourself recall again and again what for you is the most important thing. Perhaps you long to realize the truth of who you are, to love well, to touch peace, or live more from presence." - Tara Brach True Refuge

 

Jamaica

My new friend, Eloise

  "The words were still clear on the thick yellow page but the paper crumbled like bread and a bakery smell rose in her nostrils. Words surely have meanings, she thought, and there is my trouble. Something happens to words coming to me from other people. Something happens to my words. They do not seem worth uttering.
  "People don't mean what they say. Words often mean their opposites.
  "If a person says to you: I hate to tell you this, but...she doesn't hate to tell you. She likes to tell you. This is a good place to make a new start with words."  Walker Percy, The Second Coming