Passion

Passionflower from my back garden

“Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted... unbidden... it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us... passion rules us all, and we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... and the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion maybe we'd know some kind of peace... but we would be hollow... Empty rooms shuttered and dank. Without passion we'd be truly dead.”

~Joss Wheden

Miracles...

"If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change."

~Buddha

I Believe...

"Who loves not a false imagining, an unreal character in us; but looking through all the rubbish of our imperfections, loves in us the divine ideal of our natures - not the man that we are, but the angel that we may be." 

~ Lord Tennyson

Happy Independence Day

“In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.”

~Franklin D. Roosevelt