Tangled up in b'loons

"We know that we come from the winds, and that we shall return to them;

that all of life is perhaps a knot, a tangle, a blemish in the eternal smoothness.

But why should this make us unhappy?

Let us rather love one another, and work and rejoice.

I don't believe in this world of sorrow."

-- E.M. Forster, A Room With a View

Smiley face balloon Medusa with smiley face balloon snakes hair 12-21-13

"Straightaway I was 'ware

So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move 

Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair,

And a voice said in mastery, while I strove ...

'Guess now who holds thee!' -- 'Death,' I said, but there,

The silver answer rang ... 'Not Death, but Love.'"

-- Elizabeth Barret Browing,  

Sonnets from the Portuguese 1: "I Thought how Theocritus" 

"Amarantha sweet and fair,

Ah, braid no more that shining hair!

As my curious hand or eye,

Hovering round thee let it fly."

-- Richard Lovelace, 

"Song to Amarantha, that she would Dishevel her Hair"

Happiest Medusa ever.

Love me tender

"Oh, she may be weary
Young girls they do get weary ..."

-- Otis Redding, "Try a Little Tenderness"

Self portrait 5-31-13

“And then I remember this morning and I wonder 

if it really happened or if I dreamed it. 

It was nice. And weird. And tender. 

I'm not used to tender. It's a fossil, that word. 

Conditions changed and it died out. Like the woolly mammoth.” 

-- Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

Shine on

“A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, 

but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.”

                                                                                                

                                                                                        -- Hugh Downs

Balloon face 4-8-13

"You can turn off the sun but I'm still gonna shine."

                                                                                                         -- Jason Mraz, "Remedy"

Is it happy in here, or is it just me?