“Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.” 
- Mary Roberts Rinehart The world has its eyes turned ...

"The ambition of every good cook must be to make something very good with the fewest possible ingredients." - Urbain Dubois Do ...

“Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.” - Thomas Fuller I am in Adelaide, South Australia today for work and it has been a good ...

“It's time to renew our commitment to the world around us.” - Christopher Dodd Well, I’m back with a new logic board and replaced firmwa...

“As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight.” – James Abbott McNeill Whistler A painting by James Abbott McNeill Wh...

“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.” - Richard Bach My Very Own Stra...

“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” - Charles Dickens Merry Christmas! Yes, it’s Christmas in July in A...

“I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.” - Arthur C. Clarke Astrology is a controversial subject....

“The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand.” - Frederick L. Knowles Night THE SCENE: Deserted streets; Cold lights; Fogged up ...

“Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” - Benjamin Disraeli Greetings from Brisba...

"Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul....

"When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting." - Fernando Boter...

“He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.” - Anais Nin I had some rather startling and very sad news today. From an old acquainta...

"I never see any home cooking. All I get is fancy stuff."
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh A very busy day at work today and har...

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.” - Helen Keller I spent most of my day today in a special disability wor...

“Nothing is permanent.” – Gautama Buddha Silly argument; The heart is now painted the Colour of winter.

“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.” – Anaïs Nin There is quite...

“There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots; the other, wings.” – Hodding Carter We watched Ingmar B...

“I want to make the trivial serve to express the sublime.” – Jean-François Millet For Art Sunday today, a painter representing the “realist...

“And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.” - G. K. Chesterton RAIN Listen to...