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“Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed.”- Muriel Rukeyser.

Day 62/100: The Honeymoon, 1951. #myparents #longmarriages #honeymoon #colla

“The leader of the band is tired and his eyes are growing old
But his blood runs through my instrument and his song is in my soul “- Dan Fogelberg.

Day 61/100: Leader of the Band. #danfogelberg #collage #fatherandson #brushstrokes #the1

“A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn’t play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.”- Pablo Neruda.

Day 60/100: my dad, with perhaps his first set of wheels, next to a

“You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.”- Swami Vivekananda.

Day 59/100. This is the same man whose image I used on Days 43 and 47. I just assum

“Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?”- Andy Warhol. Day 58/100: Women in White Dresses sit in the front row of my childhood memories. They were usually older Hawaiian women, standing on the side of

“If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.”- Tom Stoppard.

Day 57/100: Happy Easter!🐇 #tallguy in #kindergarten #easter #collage #6x6 #the100dayproject #dothe100dayproject #dothe100dayproject2025 #rabbitears #oldfam

“Memory… is the diary that we all carry about with us.”- Oscar Wilde. Day56/100. #the100dayproject #dothe100dayproject #dothe100dayproject2025 #oscarwilde #collage #6x6 #sketchbookpieces

“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”- Dr. Seuss. Day 55/100. #harumatsuda #hats #drseuss #collage #6x6 #the100dayproject #dothe100dayproject #dothe100dayproject2025 #

“I think childhood is to everyone a lost world.”- Dennis Potter. Day 54/100. All I remember are my scraped up knees, irritated by the long dress (muumuu). No one said, “say cheese!”

#cousins #oldfamilyphotos #girls #collage #

“Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.”- Lao Tzu. Day 53/100. #tallguy #surfing #collage #6x6 #the100dayproject #dothe100dayproject #dothe100dayproject2025

“The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.”- Joseph Campbell.

Day 52/100. My maternal grandfather (left) and my son, riding in the rain. Keep saying YES! #collage #oldfamilyphotos #the10

He deals the cards to find the answer
The sacred geometry of chance
The hidden law of probable outcome
The numbers lead a dance- Sting, “Shape Of My Heart”.

Day 51/100. I’m always intrigued by frozen conversations. These ladies s

“If you don’t k know where you are going, any road will get you there.”- Lewis Carroll. Day 50/100: Blue, the hen I feed.

#collage #6x6 #sketchbookpages #hen #chicken #the100dayproject #dothe100dayproject #dothe100dayproject2025 #

“What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?”- W. H. Davies.

Day 49/100: The first dog in my life was a German Shepherd-Dachshund mix male, named Kelly. We got him the night before I started Kindergarten and

“Follow your moonlight; don’t hide the madness.”- Allen Ginsburg. Day 48/100: Les, hiding. 🫣 #youngerbrother #chevy #the100dayproject #allenginsburg #dothe100dayproject #dothe100dayproject2025 #collage #6x6 #wallsnotebook

“One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.”- Jiddhu Krishnamurti.

Day 47/100: another relative, unknown. #oldfamilyphotos #collage #krishnamurtiquotes #6x6 #the100dayproject2025 #the100dayproject #

“Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.”- Heraclitus. Day 46/100. My son had swimming lessons that taught me to hold my breath. 🙃

#swimminglessons #airbubbles #collage #6x6 #dothe100dayproject #t

“They might not need me, but they might, I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.”- Emily Dickinson. Day 45/100: my dad, his bird, and a bright idea. 😍

#fred #happy #lovebird

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