Scene From a Coffeehouse

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"Old friends.

Winter companions,

The old men

Lost in their overcoats,

Waiting for the sunset.

The sounds of the city,

Sifting through trees,

Settle like dust

On the shoulders

Of the old friends."

Paul Simon,

'Old Friends'

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Scene From a Coffeehouse

Convention of Buddhas
Nicasio Road, West Marin


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Hawaii Daily Photo

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West Marin

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“This land is your land, this land is my land, 

From California to the New York island,

 From the redwood forest 

to the Gulf Stream waters, 

This land was made for you and me”

                         Woody Guthrie 

It is impossible to convey the

 vast scale of this Marin mountainside.

Do you see the tiny fence in the upper left?

The corner of the fence is pointing at

hikers on a trail. See them?

They are enlarged below

" Not until we are lost 
do we begin to 
understand ourselves."
Henry David Thoreau

"A hunch is 
creativity trying to 
tell you something." 
                      Frank Capra

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Marin county is a triangle

pointing at San Francisco

across the Golden Gate.

On one side: The Bay.

Bordering the West:

Pacific ocean.

In between:mountains.

We live on the East

(Bay) side. These

photos were shot

in Central and West

Marin County California

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Hawaii Daily Photo

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One of These Things

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Good Morning

Friend!

"All works of nature created 

by God in heaven and 

on earth are 

works of sculpture. "

                     Benvenuto Cellini

 "The essence of a sculpture 

must enter on tip-toe,

 as light as animal 

footprints on snow."

                         Hans Jean Arp

“Sculpture and painting 

have the effect of

 teaching us manners

 and 

abolishing hurry.”

                    Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The ultimate goal of the sculptor

 is to capture the essence of the figure, 

that person's individual message, 

through the pose that 

comes from within. "

                               Robert G. Breur

"Everyone sees 

what you appear to be, 

few experience 

what you really are." 

                Niccolo Machiavelli

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Hawaii Photo of the Day

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Bear Bell Bunnies

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"Forgiving the unrepentant is 

like drawing pictures on water."

                            Japanese  Proverb

"Nothing is so wretched or 

foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. 

What madness is it to be expecting

 evil before it comes." 

                              Seneca the Elder

"We must think over and 

over the kind of thoughts 

we wish to dominate 

our lives."

                   Thoreau

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Hawaii Photo of the Day

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Sky Watch

Goose Omen Fence

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Click on the Geese. They LIKE it!
The geese have always been

my especial friends.

They flew over my childhood house 

when I was little, honking. 

Even then I always 

regarded it as a good sign.

My first Omen.

They have shown up

reliably to point the 

way, to reassure me

throughout life. 

Now they are here too,

sharing this wetland, No longer 

distant and passing in an instant,

but landing and eating and living

close by. I can hear them 
approaching low overhead talking, 
disputing, advising one another:
"You were admiral LAST time!"

But they are telling me:

"We are home, and so are you."

[Honk]

They've never lied to me before!

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Good Fences


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Hawaii Photo of the Day

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Miniature Monumental

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Click on Mount Tam

“- a large granite mountain 

cannot be denied –

 it speaks in silence 

to the very core of 

your being” 

                     Ansel Adams

"Everyone seems to have 

a clear idea of how

 other people should 

lead their lives,

 but none about 

his or her own.” 

                         Paulo Coelho

“Like all shopkeepers, 

they are deep-down optimists. 

They have to be, because 

every morning they unlock

 the doors to their stores, turn

on the lights, prepare for the day, 

and wait for people to 

walk in and hand them money.” 

                       Robert Spector, 

The Mom & Pop Store: True Stories

 from the Heart of America

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Hawaii Photo of the Day

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Never Just Another Day

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"Each morning we 

are born again. 

What we do today is

what matters most." 

                          Buddha

"The best way to 

escape from a problem 

is to solve it."

                  Alan Saporta

"An ounce of action is

worth a ton of theory."

                    Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Hawaii Photo of the Day

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Now and Then

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" One sees clearly

only with the heart.

Anything essential

is invisible

to the eyes. "

                       Saint-Exupery

"The value of an education 

in a liberal arts college 

is not the learning

 of many facts, 

- but the training of 

the mind to think of 

something that cannot be 

learned from textbooks."

                           Albert Einstein

"A little nonsense 

now and then

 is relished by

 the wisest men."

                       Roald Dahl

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Hawaii Photo of the Day

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Little By Little

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"Enlightenment must 

come little by little - 

otherwise it would 

overwhelm." 

                 Idries Shah

"Knowing yourself 

is the beginning 

of all wisdom." 

                 Aristotle

"Every day holds 

the possibility 

of a miracle." 

                      Elizabeth David

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Hawaii Photo of the Day

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Did I See That?

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Driving along in my automobile.

Wait! Was that...!?

" You can't drive straight 

on a twisting lane. "

                         Russian Proverb

Horrible light for a shot! 

But interesting 

serpentine shape,

n'est-ce pas?

Not "Over there" or 

"on the median" but 

right there on 

the sidewalk where 

I walk every day,

A Heron!

Step into the 

shadow please. . . .

GOT you! (Sort of)

Hurry On Heron

"It's not what you 

look at that matters, it's 

what you see."

                           Thoreau

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