a dad's helping hand at-the-ready as his child takes a leap. "jump." -- joseph campbell

10-16-08-- thursday at the pumpkin patch... "to know someone with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts unexpressed...that can make this life a garden." -- goethe

9-2-08-- tuesday unc marching band practices on campus "it takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." -- e.e. cummings

8-31-08-- sunday lovely evening for a visit to the ice cream shop! sundae anyone?! "In the late 19th century Evanston, Illinois, nicknamed "Heavenston" by Frances Willard, was a Methodist-minded town, so pious that the town fathers, resenting the dissipating influence of the soda fountain, passed an ordinance forbidding the sale of ice cream sodas on Sunday. Some ingenious confectioners, obeying the law, served ice cream with syrup but no soda. This sodaless soda was the Sunday soda, and became so popular that orders for "Sundays" crossed the counter everyday of the week. When objection was raised to christening the dish after the Sabbath, the spelling was changed to Sundae, and so developed one of America's most characteristic dishes." -- William Lyon Phelps

7-4-08-- friday july 4th celebration in carrboro- focus on family fun and music "we can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures." -- thornton wilder

7-16-08-- wednesday unc arboretum at dusk "the meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed." -- carl jung

8-22-08-- friday downtown franklin street "to find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life." -- john burroughs

9-6-08-- saturday "thank you for the world so sweet, thank you for the food we eat. thank you for the birds that sing, thank you god for everything." -- child's mealtime blessing

9-4-08-- thursday "when I was young, every day was as a beginning of some new thing, and every evening ended with a glow of the next day's dawn." -- eskimo poem

10-3-08-- friday "live your life with arms wide open. today is where your book begins. the rest is still unwritten." -- natasha bedingfield

10-13-08-- monday walking along a major street near the campus- giant trees and small pebble path. "paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better." -- laurie anderson

10-20-08-- monday james taylor, a chapel hill native, returns home to unc- ch to perform a free concert in support of barak obama. it was so great to hear him sing his tunes live in the clear crisp autumn evening. the first song he sang was the first he'd written worthy to share- "something in the way she moves." the event opened with the pledge of allegiance and a prayer for unity. by a show of hands, the majority present had already voted. we were encouraged to get out the vote. so here is my message to those reading this- VOTE!

11-12-08-- wednesday "out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. when the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. ideas, language, even the phrase 'each other' doesn't make any sense." -- rumi

11-18-08-- tuesday getting their cheering gear before tonight's game! basketball season has begun! "I dwell in possibility..." -- emily dickinson

12-6-08-- saturday short order cook- flipping an omlette "when omlette looks slightly solid, flip..." -- cooking instructions

5-24-06- wednesday-- practicing patience "the keys to patience are acceptance and faith. accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen." -- ralph marston

5-1-06- monday- biking with dog in backpack

11-1-06-- wednesday halloween on franklin street- chapel hill closes the street for this annual event with 70,000 revelers! "that was the painter. vermeer. that was johannes vermeer and his wife. you're to clean his studio." -- girl with a pearl earring

12-29-06-- friday toasty toes by the fire "sit by the fire and spin." -- mother goose rhyme

12-20-06-- wednesday men at work "many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. they have retained bubbling-over boyishness. they have relished wit, they have indulged in humor. they have not allowed "dignity" to depress them into moroseness. youthfulnesss of spirit is the twin brother of optimism, and optimism is the stuff of which american business success is fashioned. resist growing up!" -- b. c. forbes

7-31-06-- monday "for the beauty of the earth for the glory of the skies, for the love which from our birth over and around us lies. lord of all, to thee we raise, this our hymn of grateful praise." -- folliot pierpoint

7-1-06-- saturday "the breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. don't go back to sleep. you must ask for what you really want. don't go back to sleep. people are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch. the door is round and open. don't go back to sleep." -- rumi

7-2-06-- sunday a mother's protective hold “all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.” -- j.r. lowell

7-4-06-- tuesday cane creek cloggers at the fourth of july celebration at carrboro town hall

7-18-06-- tuesday "I should never have made my success in life if I had not bestowed upon the least thing I have ever undertaken the same attention and care that I have bestowed upon the greatest." -- charles dickens

7-28-06-- friday chapel hill flower lady-- she has sold flowers on franklin street from her garden for 50+ years. her beautiful posies are a favorite for all who pass by “such gardens are not made by singing, ‘oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.” -- rudyard kipling

8-3-06-- thursday took this photo on my walk of a fisherman by the pier-- in memory of my dad, who was an avid fisherman "the past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. love of the past implies faith in the future." -- stephen ambrose

8-4-06-- friday "don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering." -- pooh's little instruction book, inspired by a. a. milne

9-4-06-- monday unc students in the coffee shop in the afternoon "the highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it." -- john ruskin

10-1-06-- sunday "fairy tales can come true, it could happen to you when you're young at heart." -- disney

10-5-06-- thursday I see this fellow almost every day, picking up trash on the sidewalk. finally got a photo of him. he's a university professor who used to run and now makes his walks more interesting by picking up trash. "practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty." -- anne herbert

10-14-06-- saturday congratulations to newlyweds! "in the end, only kindness matters." -- jewel

2-15-07-- thursday "management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things." -- peter drucker

1-4-07-- thursday "life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work." -- horace (65 BC - 8 BC)

2-19-07-- monday time to wash the firetruck! "a great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up." -- albert schweitzer

3-16-07-- friday a vase of good cheer on a cold, dark, and rainy day "life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in eternity." -- upanishads

3-17-07-- saturday "life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter." -- sharon salzberg

3-20-07-- tuesday first day of spring! beautiful bambino in a backpack bunting "there is nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit - and to buttress your resolve to make the world a better place." -- virginia kelley

4-21-07-- saturday "to exist in the fleet joy of becoming, to be a channel for life as it flashes by in its gaiety and courage, cool water glittering in the sunlight." -- dag hammarskjold

5-9-07-- wednesday downpour! "I wish you sunshine on your path and storms to season your journey. I wish you peace in the world in which you live... more I cannot wish you, except perhaps love, to make all the rest worthwhile." -- robert a. ward