distant view…

“When you feel life at crossroads, you need higher view.” Toba Beta

Above Sitka Sound in Alaska

life’s swirl…

‘What you discover about life’s shell game is that it’s hardest to follow the pea when you’re the pea.’ Robert Brault…Enjoying a lovely backyard rose, is escaping the shell game.

Clarity Please

“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.” George Orwell

Life: Confusion

“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”  Dostoyevsky

“There I was, cold, isolated and desperate for something I knew I couldn’t have. A solution. A remedy. Anything….I hated it. Alone and confused was the last place I wanted to be.   Somehow I knew I deserved this.”  Brian Krans

“One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else.”  K.L. Toth