While driving down the street in Geneva... glancing at the beautiful color of the buildings glistening in the sun... I happened to look up. To my amazement, something was staring back..

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

~Elizabeth Bowen

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

~Marcel Proust

You can't depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus.

~Paul Gauguin

......imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will live as one.

~John Lennon

"The world is but a canvas to the imagination." ~ Henry Davit Thoreau

"You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?" ~George Bernard Shaw

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

We are all rooting for you Hillary...

They say the generation X are part of the "revolving door" generation. Go out into the world for a while and then come home to re-group and try it again. I understand. I am so happy to have her with me, but know that she must go on with her own life. To value her own good opinion, a child has to feel that she is a worthwhile person. She has to have confidence in herself as an individual.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

~Ann Frank

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

It takes a village to raise a child.

~ African Proverb.... and ~Senator Hilary Clinton

~ environmental ~ responsible ~ challenging ~ sustainable ~ recycle ~

.....an assumption that resources are there and will always be there...

.....can we imagine a greener way to live.... wind turbines.....

.....live off the flows of nature.... invest in alternatives......

..... if you stand on the sidelines you do not have the right to complain......

~Robert Redford~

.....why should we be the species to end the cycle of life - prove we are better than that...

~Ben Harper~

“Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.”

~Angelina Jolie That definately give us a view into her mind and spirit.

Angelina... I often feel that way too. Very antsie... the urge to run... as I call it..."the grass is greener syndrome"... even though I have grown out of the actual movement... the mind still wants to take off to parts unknown... seek a new adventure... see what I have not seen... soak in the beauty of sites not yet discovered... ghost towns.. mountains and trails.... old churches.... lakes and rivers.... covered bridges... antique shops... it is all in a days dreaming...

~eljayrae