Meditation #6

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Meditation #5

The effects of the Tennessee flood in Gibson Guitar's factory floor in Nashville.

"Sometimes great beauty can be found in the strangest of places and under the most horrible of circumstances."
                                   -Bryan Wawzeneck

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Meditation #4

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 1869-1948

"Be the change you wish to see in the world."

     -Gandhi

Meditation #3

 

Art by San Yang (pen name for Zhang Xiuzhen)

Part of the artist's series "The Mighty Army General: Ancient Chinese Philosophy Wall Scrolls", this scroll entitled "The Mighty Family Man".  In this picture, a great military man, perhaps of the Shang dynasty (17th to 11th century BC) has returned from his place as a military commander to play an equally important role - husband to his wife, father to his son.  

"A child's life is like a piece of paper
in which every person leaves their mark."
- Ancient Chinese proverb

Meditation #2

Title page to Jonathan Swift's Works of 1735, showing Swift receiving the thanks of Ireland and the dashing of Wood's half-pence. The Latin inscription, from Horace, says, "I have made a monument more lasting than brass."

"A wise man should have money in his head,
but not in his heart."
- Jonathan Swift

Meditation #1

fragment of bronze sculpture potrait of Marcus Aurelius, displayed in the Louvre

"Men were created for the sake of one another.
Either teach them or bear with them." - Marcus Aurelius