The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it. – Author Unknown

The long way around is the shortcut when everybody knows the shortcut. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Vision may sometimes sleep in the sun, while it wakens to widest revelation in utter darkness. Thus I am rapt in a trance-like acceptance of opening cavernous depths, crypts of decyphered gloom, yielding hollows of velvet obscurity that go down, down to the roots of things. – Virginia Garland, “The Rain,” Out West: A Magazine of the Old Pacific and the Ne