Home

A small red cottage 

By Allan Wallberg

“The ache for home lives in all of us. 

The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”

- Maya Angelou

Composition by:

Kay Lynn Gabaldon

Featured Image:

A small red cottage 

By Allan Wallberg

Viva Enfarinats!

Enfarinats
Francisco Sanchez Fotographias

In a tradition that dates back more than 200 years, the town of Ibi, Spain,
celebrates the festival of Els Enfarinats on December 28th with a mock battle
taking place outside the town hall. Participants attack each other with eggs, flour,
firecrackers, fire extinguishers, and more. The annual battle involves an a group
of married men called “Els Enfarinats,” who stage a coup, taking over the town,
declaring and enforcing ridiculous new laws—and “La Oposicio,”
another group who try to restore order. At the end of the day,
any money collected in fines by “Els Enfarinats” is donated to charity.

Composition by:  
Kay Lynn Gabaldon  

April, 2106

The Little Things

Passaros
Luis Godinho

“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, 

and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that 

worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful 
which the Universe has implanted in the human soul.” 

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Composition by:

Kay Lynn Gabaldon

April, 2016

Possibility

Together till the end of the day
Marco Tagliarino

“At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.”

― Jean Houston

Composition by:  
Kay Lynn Gabaldon  

April, 2106

Shop Talk

Untitled
Jose Carlos

"A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue.

That's why there are so few good conversations:

due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.”

― Truman Capote

Composition by:  
Kay Lynn Gabaldon  

April, 2106

Simplicity & Abundance

Fibonacci
Pedro Jarque

“You do not have to be good.

You do not have to walk on your knees

for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body 

love what it loves.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,

the world offers itself to your imagination,

calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –

over and over announcing your place

in the family of things.” 

― Mary Oliver

Composition by:

Kay Lynn Gabaldon

April, 2016

Virtue

Where now..?
Leszek Paradowski

“Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue.
Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth.
Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat
with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue
that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away,  as I do
back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche

Composition by:

Kay Lynn Gabaldon

April, 2016

Nailed

Old grudges
Raffaele Spettoli

“Let today be the day you stop being haunted by the ghost of yesterday.
Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul.
Get even with people...but not those who have hurt us, forget them,
instead get even with those who have helped us.”
- Steve Maraboli

Composition by:
Kay Lynn Gabaldon

April, 2016

The Sketch

Shadows (one way)
Dalibor Davidovic

“Life is like a painting. Imagine it, hit and try drawing with the pencil of first steps,
fill in the colors of happiness, correct the mistakes with eraser of love and forgiveness;
thus, one dream project is accomplished. Create such masterpieces just like that.”

― Vikrmn Corpkshetra

Composition by:

Kay Lynn Gabaldon

April, 2016

The Traveler

KPN
Ewa Cwikla

“The Road goes ever on and on.

Down from the door where it began.

Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can,

Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way

Where many paths and errands meet.

And whither then? I cannot say”

― J.R.R. Tolkien

Composition by:

Kay Lynn Gabaldon

April, 2016

The Shady Side of Gray

Untitled
Ina Blar

“The overcast skies had the colour of deadened stones, and seemed

closer than usually, as though they were phlegmatically observing my every

movement with their apathetic emptily blue-less eyes; each tiny drop of hazy

rain drifting around resembled transparent molten steel, the pavement looked

like it was about to burst into disconsolate tears, even the air itself was gray,

so ultimate and ubiquitous that colour was everywhere around me."

― Simona Panova

Composition by:

Kay Lynn Gabaldon


April, 2016

This Tree & Me

High, dry and protected tree house
Ben Goossens

“But the trees seemed to know me.
They whispered among themselves and beckoned me nearer.
And looking around, I noticed the other small trees and wild plants
and grasses had sprung up under the protection of the trees we had placed there.

The trees had multiplied!
They were moving. In one small corner of the world,
Grandfather's dream was coming true and the trees were moving again.”

― Ruskin Bond, Rusty, the Boy from the Hills

Composition by:

Kay Lynn Gabaldon

April, 2016

The Veil

Happy Together
Swapnil

“Through the veil of Love, one finds the heaven on Earth” 

― Himanshu Chhabra

Composition by:

Kay Lynn Gabaldon

April, 2016

Viva Havana!

Havana Convertible
Alper Uke

“The only way to Cuba is with the CIA.” 

― Phil Ochs

Composition by:

Kay Lynn Gabaldon

April, 2016

Puppy Love

Get A Puppy, They Said
Mike Melnotte

“Love is about going that extra mile even it if hurts a little.”

― Jennifer Flackett

Composition by:  

Kay Lynn Gabaldon  

April, 2106

Tension

du bist mein lied
Monika (Eichert) + Wolfgang Gr

“Artists are people driven by the tension between
the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.”

― D.W. Winnicot

Composition by:  
Kay Lynn Gabaldon  

April, 2106

The Irony of Love

Familiar Strangers #5
Fang Tong

“Sometimes the best and worst times of your life can coincide. 

It is a talent of the soul to discover the joy in pain.

Thinking of moments you long for, and knowing you’ll never have them again. 

The beautiful ghosts of our past haunt us, and yet we still
can’t decide if the pain they caused us out weighs the
tender moments when they touched our soul. 

This is the irony of love.” 

- Shannon L. Alder

Composition by:

Kay Lynn Gabaldon

April, 2016

Leaving Home

My Garden
Jose Antonio Sanchez

"If you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved
and where all your yesteryear's are buried deep, leave it any way
except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and
never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead.
Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives
in a cloud, formidable from a distance.” 

― Beryl Markham

Composition by:

Kay Lynn Gabaldon

April, 2016

To Capture Innocence

Boy With Glasses
Amir Bajrich

“When we are children we seldom think of the future. 

This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves 

as few adults can. The day we fret about the future 

is the day we leave our childhood behind.” 

― Patrick Rothfuss

Composition by:

Kay Lynn Gabaldon

April, 2016

The Unforgiven

The Unwanted Visitor
Gilbert Claes

"Tell me if you've ever had to deal with these kinds of people:

The kind who take and don't give.
The kind to whom you give and give,
And they keep asking.
The kind to whom you give and give and they say you gave nothing.
The kind whom have never offered anything,
But act like they're the ones providing
EVERYTHING.

The kind you give and give,
But take more than you can give.
And when they have already taken everything,
They get mad at you when you say you have
Nothing more to give.

The unforgiving,
The misgiving,
Wastefully living -
And selfishly driven.
The rat that never gives back,
Yet is so quick to attack -
Because they think the word
taking seriously means giving.” 
― Suzy Kassem

Composition by:

Kay Lynn Gabaldon

April, 2016