Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read, build the products you want to use – do the work you want to see done.
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. This dramatic sky was captured on my way home from work in downtown Richmond, VA. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.
–Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. This dramatic sky was captured on my way home from work in downtown Richmond, VA. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.
― Madeleine L’Engle

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. This dramatic sky was captured on my way home from work in downtown Richmond, VA. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
― Toni Morrison

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. I stumbled across these bizarre flowers while taking a walk around my hotel on a July trip to Shawsville, VA to visit family. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. I found this vibrant bush outside of a restaurant in Bon Air, VA.  No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
― Jorge Luis Borges

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. I found this lovely white bloom outside of a restaurant in Bon Air, VA.  No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

 

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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
― W.H. Auden, The Dyer’s Hand

 

 

Getting into the Halloween spirit with some creepy and sometimes disturbing kaleidoscopes…
Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image from Pixabay.

The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. It turns out my front yard is the perfect breeding ground for mushrooms… No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

I don’t believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.
― J.K. Rowling

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. I stumbled across these bizarre flowers while taking a walk around my hotel on a July trip to Shawsville, VA to visit family. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

I believe in the magic and authority of words.
― René Char

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. I found this vibrant bush outside of a restaurant in Bon Air, VA.  No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

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