I am ...

RIC_7941-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

          I am larger, better than I thought,
          I did not know I held so much goodness.

                Walt Whitman,
                Song of the Open Road [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/178711]

Clarity

RIC_8648-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.

Seneca

The big art

RIC_4977-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship.

The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

Birthing your images

RIC_6639
Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

You must give birth to your images.
They are the future waiting to be born.
Fear not the strangeness you feel.
The future must enter you long before it happens.
Just wait for the birth,
for the hour of new clarity.

Rainer Maria Rilke

How To Be Alone

RIC_3288
Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

Lonely is a freedom that breathes easy and weightless, and lonely is healing if you make it.

Tanya Davis, How To Be Alone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7X7sZzSXYs

New Life

RCC_3301
Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

My boat strikes something deep.
At first sounds of silence, waves.
Nothing has happened;
Or perhaps everything has happened
And I am sitting in my new life.

Rumi