Shh! [PotD]

The title is an inside joke between me, my cousins, and my sister.

Yikes [PotD]

Eel River [PotD]

Quote

Oh God, I wish from now on
to be the first to become conscious
of all that the world loves, pursues, and suffers;

I want to be the first to seek,
to sympathize, and to suffer;
the first to unfold and sacrifice myself,

to become more widely human
and more nobly of the earth
than any of the world’s servants.

 –Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ

Baker Beach [PotD]

Fall [PotD]

Squirrel [PotD]

Sneakers [PotD]

First picture from the new camera!  New lens just arrived today!

Construction [PotD]

Fyodor Dostoevsky 1812-1881

As Rosamonde pointed out, Dostoevsky was born today 197 years ago.  Here are a few quotes in remembrance of him.

 

“The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.”

“Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others”

“So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and painfully as to find someone to worship”

“Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic”

““There are three forces, the only three forces capable of conquering and enslaving forever the conscience of these weak rebels in the interests of their own happiness. They are: the miracle, the mystery and authority.””