blue turquoise orange gold

“Let me peer out at the world
through your lens. (Maybe I'll shudder,
or gasp, or tilt my head in a question.)
Let me see how your blue
is my turquoise and my orange
is your gold. Suddenly binary
stars, we have startling
gravity. Let's compare
scintillation - let's share
starlight.” 

― Naomi Shihab Nye, Time You Let Me In: 25 Poets under 25

follow it

However small, your gift will guide you.

confusion and conflict

"People aren't either wicked or noble.

They're like chef's salads,
with good things and bad things

chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette

of confusion and conflict."

— Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto

to be happy

"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin;

what else does a man need to be happy?"

— Albert Einstein

shells

"Love, a little shell somewhere

on the ocean floor, opens its mouth.

You and I and we, those imaginary beings,

enter the shell as a single drop of water."

— Rumi, read the whole poem "Entering the Shell"

lilies of the valley