"Sometimes, alone with your thoughts is a crowded place to be."

― John Mark Green

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Richard H. Jansen (American artist 1910-1988) East Side Street in Winter, n.d. Gouache on paper Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Lawrie Dignan (Canada) - "Winter" 2019

“[…] Oh, winter, master of pauses, guardian of time, scent of yesterday, in your embrace the future opens up, and hope sprouts in the frost.” (Ada Negri)

Winter Express, 2025

Jef Bourgeau

image printed on archival coldpress paper.

"Whenever something bad happens, keep calm, take a few deep breaths and shift the focus to something positive." — Roy T. Bennett

Wrap yourself in the mist. Look at the moon, nobody else, only the moon.

- Hans Christian Andersen

Be easy. Take your time. You are coming home to yourself.

- Nayyirah Waheed

“Enjoy the peace of Nature and declutter your inner world.”

― Amit Ray, Mindfulness Living in the Moment

Kaoru Yamada

“In Silence there is eloquence.” ― Rumi

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.” ― Anais Nin

“Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form inself on the edge of consciousness.” ― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

“Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'...”

― Alfred Lord Tennyson

Art by James Jebusa Shannon, Portrait of Florence Shannon, the artist’s wife (circa 1915)

“Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.” ― Pythagoras

Almost Home

(Route 191)

by Grant Haffner