“We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.”
Queen Victoria (24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901)
Friday Reflection
“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.”
Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon
Empress Hotel, Victoria, British Columbia
Friday Reflection
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Vancouver, British Columbia
Friday Reflection
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
Henry David Thoreau
Lower Seymour Conservation Area, North Vancouver, British Columbia
Friday Reflection
“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”
Rachel Carson
Hope, British Columbia
Friday Reflection
“All that we are is story. From the moment we are born to the time we continue on our spirit journey, we are involved in the creation of the story of our time here. It is what we arrive with. It is all we leave behind. We are not the things we accumulate. We are not the things we deem important. We are story.”
Richard Wagamese
Victoria, British Columbia
Friday Reflection
“Water is the driving force in nature.”
Leonardo da Vinci
Penticton, British Columbia
Friday Reflection
“I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by;”
Sea Fever, John Masefield
Vancouver Seawall
Vancouver, B.C.