The Ivory and the Horn

Life's like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning. It's so much easier just to deal with everything in how it relates to yourself. You have to really concentrate to keep an open mind, to pay attention to the broader view, to stay aware of what's going on outside your own skin.

The Pochade Box.

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?

Where Desert Spirits Crowd The Night

I wonder if archetypal spirits can be schizophrenic. Then I think, just being an archetype must make you schizophrenic. Imagine if your whole existence depended on how people remember you.

Where Desert Spirits Crowd The Night

Gina always believed there was magic in the world. "But it doesn't work the way it does in fairy tales," she told me. "It doesn't save us. We have to save ourselves."

Pal O' Mine

"What's more important?" she asks. "To be happy or to bring happiness to others?"
"I kind of like to think they go hand in hand," I tell her." That you can't really have one without the other."
"Then what have you forgotten?"

Waifs and Strays