We lose everything, but make harvest
of the consequence it was to us.

-Jack Gilbert

Dee Briggs

the beauty of oil in water

Beware lest you lose the substance
by grasping at the shadow.
-Aesop

family in a field

Jack

A woman has two smiles that
an angel might envy - the smile
that accepts a lover before words
are uttered, and the smile that
lights on the first born babe, and
assures it of a mother's love.
-Thomas C. Haliburton

cross on a hill

In order to be a realist you
must believe in miracles.
-Henry Christopher Bailey

. . . love from one being to
another can only be that
two solitudes come nearer,
recognize and protect
and comfort each other.
-Han Suyin