"We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies"

--Voltaire

“If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries."

~Ralph waldo Emerson

"In joy or sadness, flowers
are our constant friends."

~ Kozuko Okakura

portmanteau

“Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing."

~Oscar Wilde

happy dr. seuss tuesday again !

“I meant what I said and I said what I meant.”

~Dr. Seuss

Vineyard Haven

"In Vineyard Haven, on Martha's Vineyard, mostly I love the soft collision here of harbor and shore, the subtle haunting briny quality that all small towns have when they are situated on the sea."

~William Styron

"It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle."
~Ernest Hemingway

"I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?" ~John Lennon

“It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.”

~Albert Camus

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill.
Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench.
Care about other people's approval and you will be their prisoner.
Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

~ Lao Tzu

greener pastures

shut it

1. Shut your piehole


Another phrase for telling someone to shut up.
Shut your piehole , you are talking too much.

sail it

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."

~Antoine de St. Exupery

good chilmark morning

a bunny brunch scramble

"An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different."
~Oscar Wilde

happy 8/8/8 birthday ~valleykat !

"It is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea---whether it is to sail or to watch it---we are going back from whence we came."

- John F. Kennedy

jungle beach mobile

"I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.”

-- T. S. Eliot

mermaids @ the oyster bar on mv

“The cure for anything is salt water -
sweat, tears, or the sea.”

--Isak Dinesen

"Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination."

~Mark Twain

The Dalai Lama :

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.

If you want to be happy, practice compassion."

have a jungle beach good morning

"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."

~FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

now

vineyard reading

“Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, ''Lighthouses'' as the poet said ''erected in the sea of time'.' They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.”

~Arthur Schoepenhauer

Aquinnah lighthouse

“It is the one orderly product our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths; it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden the best evidence we can give of our dignity."

~E. M. Forster