If you want to know where the rainbow ends

It's you who've got to go there and find it my friend

(Tom Waits)

Rainer Maria Rilke

I beg you… to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without ever noticing it, live your way into the answer…

There I am in younger days stargazing painting picture-perfect maps

Of how my life and love would be

Not counting the unmarked paths of misdirection my compass, faith in love's perfection

I missed ten million miles of road I should have seen.

(Love's Recovery, Indigo Girls)

Pebbles in a Jar

I met a man who lost his mind

in some lost place I had to find,

follow me the wise man said,

but he walked behind

L. Cohen

A pebble
I pick it up
Roll it around my fingers
Feel its weight
its story
she joins the others
one day
I'll set them free
maybe
I'll keep one

One of these
is not like the others

And I can't forget, I can't forget
I can't forget but I don't remember what


L. Cohen

Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself.
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)

Walt Whitman

Adaptation of a Mucha Painting
in pen and ink.

I'm in collision
with
every stone I ever threw...

(David Gray)

You got to tell me brave captain,
why are the wicked so strong,
how do the angels get to sleep,
when the devil leaves the porchlight on.

(Mr Siegal – T. Waits)