~ cling to the ideal of peace ~
"Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force. If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr . . . . .

~• joy = work = curiosity •~
"It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings." --Wendell Berry . . . . . . . . .

•~ mi alma es tu alma ~•
"Brave people take a risk with the stranger. Brave people offer up their hearts, again, after they've pieced together the fragments of a broken heart. Brave people don't let themselves off the hook when something has gone wrong inside of them. He is not merely gracious; he is available. He does not observe human pain from a distance; he gets up to his elbows in it. He can wait with you while you try to make words. There is a deep, open place in his heart where others can come and go. He does not have to attach himself to every person who passes through this open heart of his, however; he can love them at the moment and let them go on." -- Daniel Homan