Acceptance

Acceptance

“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.” Gustave Flaubert – Madame Bovary, 1865. Amedeo Modigliani – Young Woman in a Yellow Dress, Madame...
Unconditional love

Unconditional love

“Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.” Vincent Van Gogh Vincent Van Gogh – View of Arles, flowering orchards, 1889.
Transformation

Transformation

“When she transformed into a butterfly, the caterpillars spoke not of her beauty, but of her weirdness. They wanted her to change back into what she always had been. But she had wings.” Dean Jackson Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson – Butterflies,...
Winter

Winter

“”Do you hear the snow against the window-panes, Kitty? How nice and soft it sounds! Just as if some one was kissing the window all over outside. I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up...