All photos and videos -- Copyright 2016 Laura Shmania
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
5-20-07-- sunday watching the bunny! "It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." -- the velveteen rabbit
5-22-07-- tuesday picnics on the lawn at weaver street market "a friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another." -- ralph waldo emerson
