Saturday, February 18, 2006

Some photos here have appeared in the JP Gazette

Nation Building







No government can long be secure

without a formidable opposition—Benjamin Disraeli

Renew our faith

Baptist Church fire January 2005
There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindnessDalai Lama

pray for peace

Antiwar demonstration in JP February 2005

all glory is fleeting

Funeral of Lance Cpl. Alexander Arredondo at St. Andrews Church

Glory is like a circle in the water,

Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,
Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.
William Shakespeare


Candles In The Darkness




Wisdom comes

by disillusionment
George Santayana









Baez Vigil Hyde Square 1991



Taking it to the streets

Protests at the Democratic National Convention 2004

He not busy being born is busy dying
Bob Dylan


Innocent Truth


Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of my brothren,
you did it to me—Jesus, Matthew 25:40

The pipes are calling

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light
Dylan Thomas,


Lantern Festival Forest Hills Cemetery

Thursday, February 16, 2006


GRACE UNDER PRESSURE
More photographs by John Swan


In The Zone


Action is eloquence
William Shakepeare








Ivan Lendl 1992







E=mc2


Olivia Mckittrick 2005
Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine—Oprah Winfrey



The Dismount




What I dream of
is an art of balance

Henri Matisse


In-line skating tournament at Flaherty Park 2004







People Get Ready


So people get ready
There's a train to Jordon
Picking up passangers
Coast to coast...







Faith is the key
Open the doors and board them
There's hope for all
Among those loved the most
Curtis Mayfield





The Memorial







The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them
Lois McMaster Bujold













Steve Ross holds a plaque thanking American
GIs for liberating him from Dachau as he stands with son,
City Councilor Mike Ross. June 2002









Tuesday, February 14, 2006


Joy, Beauty & Love

More photographs by John Swan

Sunday, February 12, 2006

Red Sox Finally Win


The purpose of our lives is to be happy
Dalai Lama

Sense of Wonder


Young cat, if you keep your eyes open enough, oh, the stuff you would learn! The most wonderful stuff!
Dr. Seuss

Saved





They always say
time changes things,
but you actually
have to change them yourself
Andy Warhol






St. Mary of the Angels gets reprieve

Masked Love


I want to rock your gypsy soul
just like way back in the days of old
and magnificently we will flow
into the mystic—Van Morrison

Beach Wedding




Rachel & Carson, August 2005








Love is everything it's cracked up to be...

It really is worth fighting for,
being brave for,
risking everything for

Erica Jong


Rendezvous

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end
Benjamin Disraeli

Friday, February 10, 2006


From God's Hand

more photographs by John Swan

Simplicity














I believe in God, only I spell it Nature
Frank Lloyd Wright










Pathos
















Life is a hungry thing
Scott Westerfeld



The Flock

Humankind has not woven the web of life.
We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together.
All things connect
Chief Seattle, 1854



Survival


Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing
Thomas Paine

Transition












Every artist dips his brush in his own soul,
and paints his own nature into his pictures—Henry Ward Beecher