REINCARNATION

Villa des Amis/Autumn 2015

Everything disappears, 

            but nothing ends.

    It all comes back in time.

         I certainly intend to.

                     ---Andrew Greig

Meditation

Quarry Court/North Berwick/Scotland

The fruits of meditation, when it is truly achieved, give one a new lease on life, redouble an individual’s capacity for vigorous and creative action by eliminating all obsession with the pursuit of pleasure or the evasion of pain, and indeed promote the full enjoyment of life with all its good and bad, its beauty and ugliness. It permits one to act instead of constantly reacting. It frees the mind from the eternal conflict of the opposites. Even more, it enhances one’s feelings of compassion so that this freedom cannot be used to the detriment of others and that alone is no small virtue in today’s environment.

 ---from The Quiet Mind by John E. Coleman

SITTING QUIETLY

Labyrinth/Villa des Amis

Sitting quietly, 

doing nothing.

Spring comes, 

and the grass grows

by itself.

                     Zenrin Kushu

GOLF

North Berwick, Scotland 

Golf is a science, the study of a lifetime,

in which you may exhaust yourself but never

your subject. It is a contest, a duel or a melee,

calling for skill, courage, strategy and self-

control. It is a test of temper, a trial of honour,

a revealer of character. It affords a chance to

play the man and act the gentleman. It means

going into God's out-of-doors getting close to

nature, fresh air, exercise, a sweeping away

of mental cobwebs, genuine recreation of tired

tissues. It is a cure for care, an antidote to worry.

It includes, companionship with friends, social

intercourse, opportunities for courtesy, kindliness

and generosity to an opponent. It promotes

not only physical health, but moral force.

                   ---DAVID R. FORGAN

ART

                           LPC 2003

      Try to reduce everything that you

      see to the utmost simplicity. That is, 

      let nothing but the things, which are 

       of the utmost importance to you, 

       have any place.

                                                    ---Robert Henri

EDINBURGH

Edinburgh Botanical Gardens May 21, 2014

In this beautiful city of Edinburgh…I came to love it, especially in that enchanting time between Easter and mid-summer, when the trees clothe themselves in green and the fountain leaps in the garden under the Castle Rock, and the lyrical geometry of the flower-beds compels the citizens and students. Time is told in flowers in the steep earth-set clock.  

              ---George Mackay Brown