scifisweetheart:

First part of Blake Leads a Walk on the Milky Way.  My favorite from a well-loved book.

“I haven’t a clue how my story will end. But that’s all right. When you set out on a journey and night covers the road, you don’t conclude that the road has vanished. And how else could we discover the stars?”

-

Nancy Willard

(via sapphireblues)

Great quote!

u-mspcoll:

Writer and artist Nancy Willard often creates fantastical figurines which inspire her as she works, but in this case she used this figure in her book of photographs An Alphabet of Angels, 1994.  This handsome fellow is the Angel of Vegetables.  (Gotta love those red boots!)

From the Nancy Willard Archive, Special Collections Library, University of Michigan

As a doll collector, I covet these!

“Somewhere clouds crossed the peaked
and rumpled sea and carried
the rain in their cheeks like light”

- Nancy Willard, Cold Water (via absenceoffield)

Perfect!

“It is time to turn on the moon.
It is time to live by a different light.”

- Nancy Willard (via chelseyphilpot)

I love this quote!

“

Start with a tree,
an old willow with its feet in the water,
and one low branch to let you in
and a higher branch to let you
upstairs,
and a lookout branch to show
how far you’ve come
(the lake before you,
the woods at your back),

and now you are close
to those who live in these rooms
without walls, without doors:
one nuthatch typing its way up the bark,
two mourning doves calling the sun out of darkness,
three blackbirds folding their wings tipped with sunset,
twelve crows threading the air and stitching
a cape that whirls them away
through the empty sky,

and don’t forget the blue heron
stalking the shallows for bluegills,
and don’t forget the otter backpaddling past you,
and the turtles perched on the log like shoes
lined up each night in a large family,

and don’t forget the owl
who has watched over you
since you were born.

Be the housekeeper of trees,
who have nothing to keep
except silence.

”

- Nancy Willard, “Tree House” (via factplusfiction)

I’m becoming a Nancy Willard fan!

“We aren’t made of atoms, Ellen. We’re made of stories.”

- Nancy Willard, Sister Water (via ellenkushner)

I love this great quote by Nancy Willard!

"This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.” —Buddha

http://flic.kr/p/r1LHJ6

The Way of the Doll http://flic.kr/p/rG3GFf The Way of the Doll

Sudden Storm http://flic.kr/p/rFpQ7u

Noddy Off to Oregon—not to worry!
http://flic.kr/p/rBEBU6
Noddy Off to Oregon—not to worry!

Happy Birthday, Maggie Black! http://flic.kr/p/rBHaPN Daily Create

Fox Fight http://flic.kr/p/rqAR8M Daily Create: A poem about rain.

Some Instructions http://flic.kr/p/rm8tUx Some Instructions

On the Bus with Sandy and Mariana http://flic.kr/p/r4NfMF On the Bus with Sandy and Mariana

Sorry Doesn’t Cut It
http://flic.kr/p/r3fM5a
Sorry Doesn’t Cut It

My 2048 Game DS 106 Renegade Style http://flic.kr/p/qG1Ygq My 2048 Game DS 106 Renegade Style

My Whiteboard Doodlation http://flic.kr/p/qELX6R

Pure Imagination http://flic.kr/p/qW7AGQ Daily Create: Word Art

Stalking the Half-Remembered Dream http://flic.kr/p/qRrkXL

What the World is Saying

Where Cats Go When They Dream
http://flic.kr/p/pWorfm
Today’s Daily Create assignment is:

Cats. On Synthesisers. In Space.
January 21, 2015

Daily Create—a photo that defines joy: My beautiful mother at 88.
http://flic.kr/p/qad8PT

Corrido of the Green Subaru:

The Daily Create was to write an original song about a car you used to own, record it, then make a music video…oh, and put in a full day teaching!

The World Next Door: A slide show video of a walk on the last day of December to the magical world on the other side of the river.

Improving on Wonder Woman’s Superhero Logo

Hot Tears of the Sun tdc1088 : A Daily Create video with twelve wishes for the New Year.

Looking for love in all the wrong places…The Trinity College Library is NOT what he had in mind…

I am generally not a fan of animated gifs, but every once in a while I see one that makes me start to change my mind, like this one from http://thisiswander.tumblr.com/

YouTube:

Today’s Daily Create challenge just gave us the title for a video, “Look For Aliens in a Store, Bravely,” and we are to do the rest.

This was a good creative opportunity to use some photos taken at Eugene’s Holiday Market, where aliens were everywhere as Mom and I bravely shopped.