Keep to your principles

"Change your opinions; keep to your principles; change your leaves; keep intact your roots."

--Victor Hugo

The moon and the star

There I am and there you are,
up in the sky--the moon and the star.
You call to me: I answer you.
Oh, tell me--can you hear it, too?
How strange it is, in darkest night,
to see it all in clearest light!
I hear your voice upon the air;
I turn to you, but you're not there.
By now I shouldn't be surprised:
you've disappeared before my eyes.
But you are never far away;
for sure as night will follow day,
up in the sky--that's where we are.
You are the moon and I am the star.

Somnambulation

"My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know. Everybody you see. Everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake and they live in a constant state of total amazement."

--from Joe vs. the Volcano

Da Mihi Animas: Anima Christi

A beautiful meditation courtesy of Father Steve Leake and Gloria T.V.:
Da Mihi Animas: Anima Christi

Almost Autumn...

"Change is a measure of time and, in Autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never again will be; what is, is change."

--Edwin Teale

Temper, temper...

"Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.'

--Sir James M. Barrie

Ad aeternitatem...

"If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest;
if there were no winter, there would be no summer."
- St. John Chrysostom