Friday, July 4, 2008

hope

there were baby birds in this nest, robins perhaps. not wanting to get too close, hoping they've survived several nasty storms, hoping they'll be flying around by the time we return.


Hope is the dream of the waking man.
-- Aristotle

3 comments:

Coffee Messiah said...

I'm thinking hope is the "magic word" for this Nov too! ; )

Bob Dylan said...

It's true--this 4th of July, hope for major change in Nov. was all anyone could talk about.

cbb said...

And hope ALSO is, of course, is "the thing with feathers/that perches in the soul/and sings the tune without the words/and never stops at all" as Emily Dickinson reminds us.

Somehow that particular verse seems suited for your photo.