Amanda-Inspired

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.- Aristotle

But cities aren’t like people; they live on and on, even though their reason for being where they are has gone downriver and out to sea.
- John Updike

Art is an evolutionary act. The shape of art and its role in society is constantly changing. At no point is art static. There are no rules.
- Raymond Salvatore Harmon

The Oculus, NYC

A luminous mountain morning. Little flowers peep out from the abandoned trails in early spring and gaze at a new road.
- Bhuwan Thapaliya

A mountaintop is not simply an elevation, but an island, a world within a world, a place out of place.
- Paul Gruchow

She could walk through a lightning storm without being touched; grab a bolt of lightning in the palm of her hand; use the heat of lightning to start the kindling going under her medicine pot. She turned the moon into salve, the stars into swaddling cloth, and healed the wounds of every creature walking up on two or down on four.
- Gloria Naylor 🌩️

Flowers that are offered for the dead, do not know the difference of where their beauty will be placed, they do not say, "This is not a palace" or "This is not a garden"; they just are. They are just beautiful, without giving regards to whether they are placed on a grave or in a castle. Flowers are just beautiful, whether they grow by the wayside or in a manicured garden. If we were all like flowers, then we would all be beautiful, with no regards to why or how. We just are. We are just beautiful.
- C. JoyBell C.

Hula is the language of the heart and, therefore, the heartbeat of the Hawaiian people. – King David Kalakaua