"some day my prince will come

some day we'll meet again

and away to his castle we'll go

to be happy forever i know"

- snow white

OR (for cynics like me)

"there is no difference between being rescued

and being captured"

- jane mendelsohn

a few clowns short of a circus

be true!

"be true! be true! be true!  show freely

to the world, if not your worst, yet some

trait whereby the worst may be inferred!"

- nathaniel hawthorne

raven from graphics fairy

deep thoughts

collages for my daughter...
my heart and my sunshine

collages of favorite quotes

"why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth

strawberry-and-cream mother-goose-world,

alice-in-wonderland fable,

only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older

and become aware of ourselves as individuals

with a dull responsibility in life?"

-sylvia plath

"you realize, of course, that everything i say is horseshit"

-kurt vonnegut

i like nonsense

"i like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.  fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living."

"in my world, everyone's a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies!"

- dr. seuss

big thanks to the graphics fairy for most all of the clip art used in the collages
http://graphicsfairy.blogspot.com/

so many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes,

yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully,

if only you were interested in them

- sylvia plath

blackbird fly

blackbird fly
into the light of the dark black night

the first thing you notice about New Orleans are the burying grounds - the cemeteries - and they're a cold proposition, one of the best things there are here.  going by, you try to be as quiet as possible, better to let them sleep... ghosts of women and men who have sinned and who've died and are now living in tombs. the past doesn't pass away so quickly here. you could be dead for a long time. 

- bob dylan

and i know i've got a lot to fear

you'll get me out

oh god just get me out of here

are you astounding us, surrounding us

nobody's daughter

she never was, she never will

be beholden

to anyone she cannot kill

you don't understand how damaged we really are

you don't understand how evil we really are

- from nobody's daughter by hole

blind folk see the fairies

oh better far than we

who miss the shining of their wings

because our eyes are filled with things

we do not wish to see

-rose fyleman

99 dreams i have had

in every one a red balloon

it's all over and i'm standing pretty

in this dust that was a city

if i could find a souvenir

just to prove the world was here

and here is a red balloon

i think of you, and let it go

- from 99 red balloons by nena

the river flows

it flows to the sea

wherever that river goes

that's where i want to be

flow river flow

let your waters wash down

take me from this road

to some other town

- ballad of easy rider

here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment.

there is no why.

- kurt vonnegut

start screaming

"i want every girl in the world

to pick up a guitar and start

screaming."

- courtney love


for sophie




little girl vintage photo courtesy of 
The Graphics Fairy
http://graphicsfairy.blogspot.com/

at last

"i can say that i've lived here in honor and danger

but i'm just an animal and cannot explain a life

down this chain of days i wished to stay among my people

relation now means nothing, having chosen so defined

and if death should smell my breathing

as it pass beneath my window

let it lead me trembling, trembling

i own every bell that tolls me"

-"at last" by neko case

(photograph i took in new orleans cemetery- added Florabella textures)

imaginate

imagination, n. A warehouse of facts, with

poet and liar in joint ownership

-ambrose bierce


(thanks to the Graphics Fairy for the vintage photo of the little girls as well as the zebra stripes!)
http://graphicsfairy.blogspot.com/

the gypsy's palm

ennui by sylvia plath




hand and doors via the graphics fairy