shine on

"you reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon.
shine on you crazy diamond.
threatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light.
shine on you crazy diamond.
well you wore out your welcome with random precision,
rode on the steel breeze.
come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter,
you piper, you prisoner, and shine!"

- from "shine on you crazy diamond" by pink floyd

fly

"fly without wings;

dream with open eyes;

see in darkness."

- dejan stojanovic

buzz

"my own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery- always buzzing, humming, soaring, roaring, diving, and then buried in mud. and why? what's this passion for?"

- virginia woolf

bees are Photoshop brushes I made from bee clip art from the graphics fairy:http://graphicsfairy.blogspot.com/

here is one example:

i use an iMac and have adobe photoshop cs5 so all i had to do to create the brush is select the bee using the rectangular marquee tool and then go to "edit/define brush preset" and then "ok".

blossom

"and the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

- anais nin

dream

"all that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."

- edgar allan poe

butterfly brushes made from clip art from Graphics Fairy and Dover

found out

"there are no good girls gone wrong -

only bad girls found out."

- mae west

i used to be snow white

"i used to be snow white, but i drifted."

-mae west

set me free

"darling don't you understand, i feel so ill at ease

the room is full of silence and it's getting hard to breath

take this gilded cage of pain and set me free

take this overcoat of shame, it never did belong to me

it never did belong to me..."

-from "the gift" by annie lennox

shadow self

"the abyss you stare into and that stares back at you is your reflection in the mirror - we all have it - that shadow self - that dark heart..."

-john geddes, a familiar rain


butterfly from graphics fairy
http://graphicsfairy.blogspot.com/

on this road

"on this road there are no godspoke men. they are gone and i am left and they have taken with them the world."

- cormac mccarthy, the road

(one of my favorite books-once you read it you will not be able to forget it)

hold on

"one ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go,

one soon loses control of the head too."

- friedrich nietzsche