Lost and Found

I found this chair in someone's trash the other day, sanded it down and reupholstered it. It's not beautiful but I like it and it was free!

You can help keep garbage out of landfills by using things again and again.
~ Margie Burton

Panera

I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's Family.
~ Trey Parker and Matt Stone

The Dawn

Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day. Such is the salutation to the dawn.
~ Sanskrit proverb

Tai Chi in the Morning

Eight forces sustain creation:
Movement and stillness,
Solidification and fluidity,
Extension and contraction,
Unification and division.
~ Ueshiba

Soaring

People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters; they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold them under.
~ Anonymous

Running

When people ask me why I run, I tell them, there's not really a reason, it's just the adrenalin when you start, and the feeling when you cross that finish line, and know that you are a winner no matter what place you got.
~ Courtney Parsons

Translucent

I didn't technically take this today but I was practicing editing in Photoshop and decided to post it instead of taking a new one.

The secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind. Hone and spread your spirit, till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff.
~ Annie Dillard