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Rhapsody in Blue

Why make so much of fragmentary blue
In here and there a bird, or butterfly,
Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye,
When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?

Since earth is earth, perhaps, not heaven (as yet)—
Though some savants make earth include the sky;
And blue so far above us comes so high,
It only gives our wish for blue a whet.

– Robert Frost

I have found myself dwelling on the color blue and the way our planet’s elemental hue, the most symphonic of the colors, recurs throughout our literature as something larger than a mere chromatic phenomenon — a symbol, a state of being, a foothold to the most lyrical and transcendent heights of the imagination.

– Maria Popova

“Blue is light seen through a veil.”

– Henry David Thoreau

“Blue is the typical heavenly color…
The ultimate feeling it creates is one of rest…”

– Wasily Kandinski

“I saw in a blue haze all the world poured
flat and pale between the mountains.”

– Annie Dillard

“We love to contemplate blue,” Goethe wrote, “not because it advances to us, but because it draws us after it.”

Blue is the unspoken language of universality,
seamlessly weaving through the expanse of
sky and the depths of water.

“No water, no life. No blue, no green”

– Sylvia Earle

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Geometry of Joy

Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
– Leo Tolstoy

And Joy is Everywhere;
It is in the Earth’s green covering of grass;
In the blue serenity of the Sky;
In the reckless exuberance of Spring;
In the severe abstinence of gray Winter;
In the Living flesh that animates our bodily frame;
In the perfect poise of the Human figure, noble and upright;
In Living;
In the exercise of all our powers;
In the acquisition of Knowledge;
in fighting evils…
Joy is there Everywhere.
– Rabindranath Tagore, 1861-1941

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning,
as if supported by the rays of the sun,
a bird settled on the fire escape,
joy in the task of coffee,
joy accompanied me as I walked.
– Anais Nin

There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone’s life.
– Sr. Mary Rose McGeady

Shared joy is a double joy
-Swedish Proverb

To get the full value of a joy you must have
somebody to divide it with.
– Mark Twain

Find ecstasy in life;
the mere sense of living is joy enough.
– Emily Dickinson

Joy is not in things;
it is in us.
– Richard Wagner

Joy is the serenity of heaven.
– John Donne

We cannot cure the world of sorrows,
but we can choose to live in joy.
– Joseph Campbell

My mind to me a kingdom is,
such present joys therein I find,
That it excels all other bliss
– Sir Edward Dyer
1543 – 1607

When you do things from your soul,
you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
– Rumi, 1207-1273

In time of care and sorrow, keep a
fountain of joy alive in you.
– Dietrich Bonhoffer

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Water – The Essence of Life

Post author By Steve McCurry
Post date November 13, 2017
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Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.
– Margaret Atwood

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
– W. H. Auden

Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.
– Laozi

A man of wisdom delights in water.
– Confucius

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.
– Loren Eiseley

When you put your hand in a flowing stream,
you touch the last that has gone before and the
first of what is still to come.
– Leonardo da Vinci

And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
– Lord Byron

Water is the soul of the Earth.
– W. H. Auden

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans …
– Khalil Gibran

Water is also one of the four elements,
the most beautiful of God’s creations.
It is both wet and cold, heavy, and with a
tendency to descend,
and flows with great readiness.
– John of Damascus, Syrian monk

Water is the driving force of all nature.
– Leonardo da Vinci

In time and with water, everything changes.
– Leonardo da Vinci

All water has a perfect memory and is forever
trying to get back to where it was.
– Toni Morrison

Water is life’s matter and matrix, mother and medium.
There is no life without water.
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Don’t you realize that the sea is the home of water?
All water is off on a journey unless it’s in the sea, and
it’s homesick, and bound to make its way home someday.
– Zora Neale Hurston

Water, like religion and ideology, has the power to move millions of people. Since the very birth of human civilization, people have moved to settle close to it. People move when there is too little of it. People move when there is too much of it. People journey down it. People write, sing and dance about it. People fight over it. And all people, everywhere and every day, need it.
– Mikhail Gorbachev

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
– Thomas Fuller

*Suri Tribe, Tulget, Omo Valley, Ethiopia*

To understand water is to understand the cosmos,
the marvels of nature, and life itself.
– Masaru Emoto

Water is being depleted many, many times faster
than nature can replenish it.
– Maude Barlow

Clean water, the essence of life and a birthright for everyone,
must become available to all people now.
– Jean-Michel Cousteau

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Wanderlust

My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe,
and my camera is my passport.
– Steve McCurry

I’d like to go anywhere.
– John Steinbeck

Look for chances to take the less-traveled roads.
There are no wrong turns.
– Susan Magsamen

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again;
we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
– Jack Kerouac

I was lying to myself when I thought I was lost,
I have never been lost – I just wasn’t ready to be found.
– Nikki Rowe

… a certain kind of wanderlust can only be assuaged by the acts of the body
itself in motion, not the motion of the car, boat, or plane.
– Rebecca Solnit

… all my life I have lived and behaved very much like the Sandpiper just
running down the edges of different countries and continents,
looking for something.
– Elizabeth Bishop