#wander

I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself. ↗

— James Taylor

#guitar #i #itself #music #present

The best teachers have showed me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly--we only think it does. The motion of drawing back a bow and sending an arrow straight into a target takes only a split second, but it is a skill many years in the making. So it is with a life, anyone's life. I may list things that might be described as my accomplishments in these few pages, but they are only shadows of the larger truth, fragments separated from the whole cycle of becoming. And if I can tell an old-time story now about a man who is walking about, waudjoset ndatlokugan, a forest lodge man, alesakamigwi udlagwedewugan, it is because I spent many years walking about myself, listening to voices that came not just from the people but from animals and trees and stones. ↗

— Joseph Bruchac

#path #patience #personal-mythmaking #story #time

I saw the sunset-colored sands, The Nile like flowing fire between, Where Rameses stares forth serene, And Ammon's heavy temple stands. I saw the rocks where long ago, Above the sea that cries and breaks, Swift Perseus with Medusa's snakes Set free the maiden white like snow. And many skies have covered me, And many winds have blown me forth, And I have loved the green, bright north, And I have loved the cold, sweet sea. But what to me are north and south, And what the lure of many lands, Since you have leaned to catch my hands And lay a kiss upon my mouth. ↗

— Sara Teasdale

#lands #loved #the-wanderer #love

Let me wake up next to you, have coffee in the morning and wander through the city with your hand in mine, and I'll be happy for the rest of my fucked up little life. ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#happy #london #love #morning #simple-living

How you live your life is up to you. You have to go out and grab the world by the horns. Rope it before it ties you down and decides for you. ↗

— Sarah Reijonen

#travel #wanderlust #love

I've come to realize that sometimes, what you love most is what you have to fight the hardest to keep. ↗

— Kirsten Hubbard

#kirsten-hubbard #love #travel #wanderlove #inspirational

I wander around, get the lay of the land and try to imagine what kind of people would have lived there in that historical period. What would they eat? What kind of clothing would they wear? How did they shelter themselves? How did they get around? ↗

— James Welch

#clothing #did #eat #get #historical

On those long notes behind the trumpet solo, if anyone lets his mind wander for a minute he is dead. ↗

— Don Ellis

#behind #dead #his #lets #long

The fool wanders, a wise man travels. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#man #travels #wanders #wise #wise man

Tintinnabulation is an area I sometimes wander into when I am searching for answers - in my life, my music, my work. In my dark hours, I have the certain feeling that everything outside this one thing has no meaning. ↗

— Arvo Part

#answers #area #certain #certain feeling #dark