Life throws challenges and every challenge comes with rainbows and lights to conquer it.
–Amit Ray, World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird
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Kaleidoscope #238
The storm starts, when the drops start dropping. When the drops stop dropping then the storm starts stopping.
― Dr. Seuss
Below is the original photo used to create this image. It’s a glass sun-catcher that hangs in my office window. Taken on a bright morning with no special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.
Kaleidoscope #237
The strongest people find the courage and caring to help others, even if they are going through their own storm.
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
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Kaleidoscope #236
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than look down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
–G.K. Chesterton
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Kaleidoscope #235
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
― Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark
Below is the original photo used to create this image. I found this blooming redbud on a lunchtime walk around the Richmond capital buildings. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my Kodak Share digital camera. I like how the background came out a little blurry…
Quote of the Day – Literature and butterflies are…
Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.
–Vladimir Nabokov
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Kaleidoscope #234
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.
― John Muir, The Mountains of California
Below is the original photo used to create this image. It’s a lovely sunset taken during a trip to Delaware in August, 2008. A simple snap from my Kodak Share camera.
Kaleidoscope #233
Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
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Kaleidoscope #232
Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.
–Nora Roberts
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Kaleidoscope #231
You will hear thunder and remember me,
And think: she wanted storms. The rim
Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson,
And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
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D.M. Sessous: writer, artist & dreamer 