February 28:Frank Zappa

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

February 27: William Butler Yeats

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

February 26: Malcolm X

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

February 25: Virginia Woolf

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

February 24: Kurt Vonnegut

so it goes

February 23: Morihei Ueshiba

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.

February 22: Henry David Thoreau

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still. 

February 21: Antoine de Saint-Exupery

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

February 20: Henry Rollins

The more you own, the more it owns you.

February 19: Francis Quarles

He that hath no cross deserves no crown.

February 18: George S. Patton

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

February 17: George Orwell

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

February 16: Friedrich Nietzsche

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

February 15: John Muir

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.

February 14: Dalai Lama

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

February 13: Franz Kafka

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

February 13: Janis Joplin

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

February 11: Icarus

All limits are self-imposed.

February 10: Edmund Hillary

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

February 9: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming. 

the back of the pack

I believed in you when you didn't believe in yourself. 
I was your biggest fan but you didn't want the support. 
I loved you. You didn't love me back.

So I took my place at back of the pack... 
To wait
To watch
To realize 

There's a thin line between a fairy tale and a lie.

February 8: Anne Frank

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

February 7: Amelia Earhart

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

February 6: Emily Dickinson

Saying nothing...sometimes says the most. 

February 5: Joseph Campbell

Follow your bliss.

February 4: Tom Brokaw

It will do us little good to wire the world if we short-circuit our souls.

February 3: Maya Angelou

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

I wish I had said that...

My "project" for the month of February...twenty-six letters in the alphabet...twenty-six more days left in the month of February...tune in tomorrow.

recap: a month in the life

The months of December, January and February are the toughest stretch of days for me. This "project" kept my mind somewhat occupied and I had fun playing with FX Photo Studio.