navylane :: musings

There is no black-and-white situation. It’s all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
Van Morrison

This time of year, oh how it sucks me into its dreariness. I try my best to be optimistic, but when the world is so grey and dead and cold, my tea cup begins to look more and more like it is half empty rather than half full. I am starting to awake from my walking hibernation, but without the distraction of flowers and warm breezes and sandy beaches, I feel suffocated. Cold. Alone.

spc | pf

Life is like a good black and white photograph, there’s black, there’s white, and lots of shades in between.Karl Heiner

more self-portraits here and here

This past summer, thanks to a generous friend, we were fortunate enough to witness the transformation of a caterpillar from chrysalis to butterfly. My daughter named him Mirth, and there isn’t a more perfect name than that to describe the joy he brought us.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.Joseph Addison