Reflecting Across - Missoula, Montana

"Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place. "

-David Bowie (1947-2016)

Tangential - Missoula, Montana

"Today’s tangents 
will become tomorrow’s arcs, 
and unforeseen connections 
will tie up your loose ends in a way 
that will make you want to slap your head and 
holler at your accidental 
brilliance."

- Chris Baty 

Weathered Well - Missoula, Montana

"Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer."

 -Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927)

Concentric Circling - Missoula, Montana

"I talk in subjects and verbs, 

and sort of wind around 
in concentric circles 

until I get far enough away from 
the beginning so that I can 
call it the end, 

and it ends."

- Garrison Keillor

Everywhere Story - Missoula, Montana

"The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story to tell. 

I say trick but what i really mean is challenge, because it's a very hard thing to do. 

Our instinct as humans, after all, is to assume that most things are not interesting. 
We flip through the channels on the television and reject ten before we settle on one. 
We go to a bookstore and look a twenty novels before we pick the one we want. 
We filter and rank and judge.  
We have to. There's just so much out there.
But if you want to be a writer [or insert  your aspiration], you have to fight that instinct every day. 

Shampoo doesn't seem interesting? 
Well, dammit, it must be, and if it isn't, I have to believe that it will ultimately lead me to something that is." 

- from What The Dog Saw and other adventures, Preface, p xiii, by Malcolm Gladwell