Twelve Days of Christmas 2017 - Day Twelve

Winter sun - the marina - looking towards Europe.

“The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.” 

(T.H. White)

Twelve Days of Christmas 2017 - Day Eleven

Winter sun - the marina

...transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life... 

(John Milton)

Twelve Days of Christmas 2017 - Day Ten

I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.

(King James)

Twelve Days of Christmas 2017 - Day Nine

Ten thousand people, maybe more

People talking without speaking

People hearing without listening

Paul Simon

Twelve Days of Christmas 2017 - Day Eight

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. 

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Twelve Days of Christmas 2017 - Day Seven

“If you keep wandering in the dark streets, may be it is because you find peace in the darkness rather than in the light!” 
― Mehmet Murat Ildan

Twelve Days of Christmas 2017 - Day Six

It is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying nothing.

(Shakespeare)

Twelve Days of Christmas 2017 - Day Five

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, 
Or what's a heaven for? 

Robert Browning

Twelve Days of Christmas 2017 - Day Four

Un du akerst

Shrink to your cellars, holes, and cells— 
In hall ye deck another dwells. 
Why shake the chains ye wrought? Ye see 
The steel ye tempered glance on ye. 

With plough and spade and hoe and loom 
Trace your grave and build your tomb 
And weave your winding-sheet—till fair 
England be your Sepulchre. 

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Twelve Days of Christmas 2017 - Day Three

Forever – is composed of Nows –
‘Tis not a different time –
Except for Infiniteness –
And Latitude of Home –

From this – experienced Here –
Remove the Dates – to These –
Let Months dissolve in further Months –
And Years – exhale in Years –

Emily Dickinson

Twelve Days of Christmas 2017 - Day Two

“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.”

― Robert Jordan

Twelve Days of Christmas 2017 - Day One

Ne’er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!