40 Days of Pathways: Day 36

40 Days of Pathways: Day 35

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

If you are going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill

40 Days of Pathways: Day 34

40 Days of Pathways: Day 33

Trees are cages for them: water holds its breath
To balance them without smudging on its delicate meniscus.
Children watch them playing in their heavenly playground;
Men use them to lug ships across oceans, through firths.

They seem so twinkle-still, but they never cease
Inventing new spaces and huge explosions
And migrating in mathematical tribes over
The steppes of space at their outrageous ease.

It's hard to think that the earth is one -
This poor sad bearer of wars and disasters
Rolls-Roycing round the sun with its load of gangsters,
Attended only by the loveless moon.

Norman MacCaig (1910 - 1996)

for C. George Norman, Jr. (August 26, 1935 - August 5, 2005) Rolls Royce owner, his pathway always glittered.

40 Days of Pathways: Day 32

40 Days of Pathways: Day 31

But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice,
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do - - - determined to save
the only life you could save.

3rd and final stanza of "The Journey" by Mary Oliver

40 Days of Pathways: Day 30

You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations - - -
though their melancholy
was terrible.It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.

2nd Stanza, "The Journey" by Mary Oliver

40 Days of Pathways: Day 29

One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice - - -
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
'Mend my life!'
each voice cried.
But you didn't stop.

1st stanza, Mary Oliver "The Journey"

40 Days of Pathways: Day 28

40 Days of Pathways: Day 26

“Let your mind start a journey thru a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be...Close your eyes let your spirit start to soar, and you'll live as you've never lived before.”
Erich Fromm

40 Days of Pathways: Day 27

40 Days of Pathways: Day 26

40 Days of Pathways: Day 25

40 Days of Pathways: Day 24

40 Days of Pathways: Day 23

I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.
Princess Diana
(photo of her memorial fountain in Hyde Park)

40 Days of Pathways: Day 22

Well, I ran into another blogger issue...I was unable to post a little video I shot using my phone as I went along my path today. It makes me feel rather sideways about the whole blogger world.

40 Days of Pathways: Day 21

“The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.” - Henry David Thoreau

40 Days of Pathways: Day 20

By the rivers dark
I wandered on.
I lived my life
in Babylon.

And I did forget
My holy song:
And I had no strength
In Babylon.

- Leonard Cohen

NB: We're half-way down the garden lane...we'll take a short rest stop to enjoy the view and return to the journey of "40 Days of Pathways" on Monday, August 11.

40 Days of Pathways: Day 19

“May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day. May songbirds serenade you every step along the way. May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue. And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.”
Irish Blessing

40 Days of Pathways: Day 18

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
- James Thurber

40 Days of Pathways: Day 17

St. Augustine:
"Men go forth to wonder at the heights of
mountains, the huge waves of the sea,
the broad flow of the rivers, the vast
compass of the ocean, the courses of the
stars: and they pass by themselves
without wondering."

40 Days of Pathways: Day 16, 2nd try

We leave Walt Whitman behind, in case he caused our blogger problem...

Please enjoy today's plain and simple pathway.
Journey on, friend.

We interrupt this broadcast...

There I was, happily blogging along with my "40 Days of Pathways" series. I love anything to do with journeys and exploring and the wonderful possibility of every journey on the outside being an equally fascinating journey on the inside. Discovery and self-discovery go hand-in-hand, all that jazz.

But this is me standing in the middle of the metaphorical pathway shaking my fist at the sky: Blogger, you said my Day 16 (July 30) posted. Well...it has not posted no matter how many times you tell me it has.

If anyone is traveling along with headSpa here, we might be on a new track soon enough. blogger might be a dead end.