I think of you often. Especially in the evenings, when I am on the balcony and it’s too dark to write or to do anything but wait for the stars. A time I love. One feels half disembodied, sitting like a shadow at the door of one’s being while the dark tide rises. Then comes the moon, marvelously serene, and small starts, very merry for some reason of their own. It is so easy to forget, in a worldly life, to attend to these miracles.

~ Katherine Mansfield, poet

Photo by Sandy Hibbard

You know, I sometimes think, how is anyone ever gonna come up with a book, or a painting, or a symphony, or a sculpture that can compete with a great city. You can’t. Because you look around and every street, every boulevard, is its own special art form and when you think that in the cold, violent, meaningless universe that Paris exists, these lights. I mean come on, there’s nothing happening on Jupiter or Neptune, but from way out in space you can see these lights, the cafés, people drinking and singing. For all we know, Paris is the hottest spot in the universe.

~ Owen Wilson 

Image by #SandyHibbard from her forthcoming book, “Paris is in the Details” – see more images on Instagram @J’aime_Paris

“Sometimes I hate you,

sometimes I hate myself,

but always I miss you”

~ David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly

Photo from The Girl from Nagasaki – a film by Michel Comte.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love.
~ Buddha

If you can’t see your beauty

let me see it for you

If I could I would give you my eyes

So you could see what I see for once in your life

“Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.” ~ Victor Hugo

   “Let’s not be concerned with whether but when. It’s a time for bold moves along this journey and I believe we will meet at our destiny.”

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act.  There is no other route to success.

~ Pablo Picasso

I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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