“The future starts today, not tomorrow.” ― Pope John Paul II     “It is Jesus that you seek when you dream of happiness; He is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; He is the beauty to which you are so attracted; it is He who provoked you with that thirst for fullness that will not let you settle for compromise; it is He who urges you to shed the masks of a false life; it is He who reads in your heart your most genuine choices, the choices that others try to stifle. It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something…

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.-Carl Sandburg     If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.-David Carradine     The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.-Jean Cocteau     Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.-Leonard Cohen     Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.-Rita Dove     A poem is never finished, only abandoned. – Paul Valery     Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.-Robert Frost     Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never…

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.-Josh Billings     Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.-James Cromwell     An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language.-Martin Buber       Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.-Roger Caras     Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.-Kinky Friedman     Until one has loved an animal a part of one’s soul remains unawakened. – Anatole France    …