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JoAnn VerburgNow and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. | Guillaume Apollinaire

photo by JoAnn Verburg

inspiration.

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i'm back in new york this morning, about to head out to my favorite corner coffee shop for a latte and some eggs (a late start today). one of my oldest friends is visiting new york this week and i plan on showing him the town. he was on his own the last day-and-a-half and when he told me that he had lunch in the basement of macy's yesterday, i told him: thank God, i'm here. 
 
greg is a really good photographer so he'll be photographing new york and i'll be cajoling him into letting me post the photos on the blog.
but for today i thought i'd share some words and images that have been fueling me of late:

"Be a child again. Flirt. Giggle. Dip your cookies in your milk. Take a nap. Say you're sorry if you hurt someone. Chase a butterfly. Be a child again."

Max Lucado

"The minute you start enjoying yourself and the person you've become, when you walk into a room with your head held high, the minute you wake up and are glad to be you, the possibilities and opportunities will come knocking at your door."

Author unknown (to me--if you know please tell)

"I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time--waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God--it changes me."

C.S. Lewis

"You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and mind with the eyes and hands."

Jeff Melvoin

"We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing--an actor, a writer--I am a person who does things--I write, I act--and I never know what I am going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun."

Stephen Fry

"To say 'I love you' one must know first how to say the 'I'." 

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"Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when nothing changes a speck, when you don't go anywhere or do anything or think one new thought. And then you can get hit with a day or an hour, or half a second, when so much happens, it's almost like you are born all over again into some brand-new person you for damn sure never expected to meet."

E.R. Frank

some words of wisdom.

in

you want to know what i hate? big-sloppy-mouthed-cheek kisses that leave the recipient wiping the side of their face. falling asleep with one boot still on because the zipper got stuck and at one in the morning there isn't the energy or will to get it undone. dreaming about said boot all night. not having enough time. feeling snowed in (metaphorically, not literally--literally, i could do with a little more snow).

i might come back into my skin sometime around the beginning of march (might).

so for today, because i myself need some words of inspiration, do please indulge me as i share just that:










forgive me for not linking these better than to say that all can be found here.