sometimes the dreams
are filled with faces
of those long gone
or absent in time
a sorrow here
in my heart
each morning
when I awake
but then a walk
along this shore
waves gently breaking
on ageless rocks
a cup of filter coffee
at a café
the aroma of freshly baked bread
a walk up the hill
watch the ships sail
mind peaceful
body at rest
sorrow may be part
of who I am
but let the dreams fade
here is where I belong
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“Work isn’t to make money; you work to justify life.”
from Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotation
“Our duty as storytellers is to bring people to the station. There each person will choose his or her own train…But we must at least take them to the station…to a point of departure.”
from Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotation
“Our duty as storytellers is to bring people to the station. There each person will choose his or her own train…But we must at least take them to the station…to a point of departure.”
Federico Fellini, director
“We’d all like to vote for the best man but he’s never a candidate.”
from Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotation
“We’d all like to vote for the best man but he’s never a candidate.”
“We must build bridges between people, and we must also build walls: the walls of new kitchens, new schools, new…
from Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotation
“We need to keep this country great by continuing its long tradition of being inclusive, of fighting the forces of exclusion that threaten us every day.
We must build bridges between people, and we must also build walls: the walls of new kitchens, new schools, new hospitals.
If we continue to be inclusive and welcoming, we are only going to keep moving it forward, to make the America we all dream of.”
José Andrés, chef, Spanish, American
“Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It’s almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.”
from Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotation: RIP Neil Simon and thanks for making us all laugh
“Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It’s almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.”
Today’s Quote
from the blog Soul Gatherings
“Everything hangs on how we define ourselves and how we treat those with whom we share our surroundings…”
from Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotation
“Everything hangs on how we define ourselves and how we treat those with whom we share our surroundings,
which are teeming with different ethnicities, religions and cultures. We are doomed if we lose independent thinking, lose the ability to freely evaluate and define ourselves”
Source: The Question We Must Keep Asking (We can only define ourselves by continually re-evaluating our humanness)
Ai Weiwei, artist, activist, painter, sculptor, installation artist, conceptual artist
“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before”
from Douglas Moore’S Art of Quotation
“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.”
Leonard Bernstein, composer, conductor, educator
oh how different
it’s easy to identify
with the longing
of those ancient Chinese friends
of mine
but oh how different
to feel at home
here in self-imposed exile
among people more alike
than different
from those from whom
I came
Leonard Durso 