Resilience

Resilience is based on compassion for ourselves as well as compassion for others. - Sharon SalzbergResilience is based on compassion for ourselves as well as compassion for others.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Resilience is based on compassion for ourselves as well as compassion for others.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Resilience is based on compassion for ourselves as well as compassion for others.”

— Sharon Salzberg“Resilience is based on compassion for ourselves as well as compassion for others.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Resilience is based on compassion for ourselves as well as compassion for others.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Resilience is based on compassion for ourselves as well as compassion for others.”

— Sharon Salzberg

 “Resilience is based on compassion for ourselves as well as compassion for others.”

— Sharon Salzberg

No Noble Heart Will Bear Injustice

Quote found at Schiller Park, Columbus, Ohio. Papercut print.

Wild Geese

“...whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers
itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh & exciting -
over & over announcing your place in the family of things.”

-Mary Oliver, Wild Geese

Valentine. Be you.

Don’t compare your path with anybody's else's. Your path is unique to you.
Whatever path you take, it's God calling you.

- Ram Dass

The birdhouse

Birds of a feather flock together.

October Nights

“Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves,
We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!

― Humbert Wolfe

The Woodsman

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice. - Henry Ford

Luna

"In the early curtains

  of the dusk

     it flew,

        a slow galloping"

From the poem "Luna" by Mary Oliver

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable. - Mary Oliver

Remember To Water

Remember to Water.
A poem by Joey Doherty

Simply

"I don't want to end up simply to have visited this world."
-Mary Oliver

Pause

“It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately fill up the space.
By waiting, we begin to connect with fundamental restlessness as well as
fundamental spaciousness. 

-Pema Chodron, from "When Things Fall Apart”

Happy Cinco de Mayo

The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or woman.
-Willa Cather 

Steadfast Friends

Above our life we love a steadfast friend. - Christopher Marlowe

Hope

Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall. - Confucius

Fresh Air

Loneliness adds beauty to life.
It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better. - Henry Rollins

Tails-a-waggin

All tails a waggin. I'm thankful for good friends and filled
with graditute for following me.
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation
is not to utter words, but to live by them. - John F. Kennedy

Parks

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

  - Frank Lloyd Wright

I'm doing a new series of paper cuts about parks I enjoy going to.

Prairie Oaks is 500 acres of flowering prairies and grassland within the Big Darby State and National Scenic River system, outside Columbus, Ohio. It's one of the 20 metro parks of Columbus.

A special thanks to Greater Columbus Arts Council for the art supply grant to help with this project. 

Posterity

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators. - Friedrich Schiller

Sylvia Pankhurst

Sylvia Pankhurst (5 May 1882 – 27 September 1960)
was an English campaigner for the suffragette movement.