bejeweled bottle rack

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

—Bill Moyers

hamburglar

Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight—how to get from shore to food and back again. For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.

—Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

bath time

Right now I'm just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

—Richard Branson

humble vessel

The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

fallen beauty

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

—Albert Camus

my blue heaven

A morning without coffee is like sleep.

—Author unknown