The heart of a city

Yes, Charlotte is a banking city. Yes, it is private money and corporate policy that drive this city into the future. But it is the people that give it a pulse. It is the community coming together to create art, to educate children, to work for something bigger than themselves. I love this city, more than I ever thought possible.

One step closer...

“I apologize for those who feel offended,” Republican Senator Mark Grisanti said, adding, “I cannot deny a person, a human being, a taxpayer, a worker, the people of my district and across this state, the State of New York, and those people who make this the great state that it is the same rights that I have with my wife.”

Porch reading

"Touched to the heart, Mrs. March could only stretch out her arms, as if to gather children and grandchildren to herself, and say, with face and voice full of motherly love, gratitude, and humility 'Oh, my girls, however long you may live, I never can wish you a greater happiness than this!'"
- Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

All the world's a stage...

"Theatre is a language through which human beings can engage in active dialogue on what is important to them...

... it allows individuals to create a safe space that they may inhabit in groups and use to explore the interactions which make up their lives...

... it is a lab for problem solving, for seeking options, and for practicing solutions."

- Augusto Boal, Theatre of the Oppressed

Big Sky

Sometimes I am just overwhelmed by the beauty one can experience sitting at a red light.

Summer Day

“If there are no dogs in heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”
Will Rogers

“A dog wags its tail with its heart”
Martin Buxbaum

“Dogs never lie about love.”
Jeffery Masson

"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit." - Helen Keller

"When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies." - J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

"And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything." ~William Shakespeare