Tree of Inspiration, Douglas Moorezart, copyright 2017, http://fineartamerica.com/featured/tree-of-inspiration-douglas-moorezart.html

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But…”

Published on 11/03/201811/03/2018 by moorezart9 Comments

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

“On a recent wilderness hike I found myself quite lost, cold and sensing a growing panic in my gut.

I sat to collect my wits and it was then that I noticed this remarkable tree. It had somehow grown through an immovable boulder in an effort to claim its own place, its own life.

I found it an inspiring reminder about how we respond to seemingly insurmountable obstacles. And this photograph and print is the result. – Douglas

“Life is made up of a collection of moments that are not ours to keep”

Published on 10/20/201810/20/2018 by moorezart9 Comments

The Blue Line, original photography by Douglas Moorezart, copyright 2017, all rights reserved

“Life is made up of a collection of moments that are not ours to keep”

— Rachel Brathen

Suffering is Optional

Published on 10/14/201810/14/2018 by moorezart1 Comment

Buddha Thoughts, copyright 2017, all rights reserved, Douglas Moorezart

Prints available here

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

–Buddha

“I have to be alone very often…”

Published on 09/29/201810/01/2018 by moorezart18 Comments

windows are for 72 res — Apart – Douglas Moorezart, copyright 2016, all rights reserved

“I have to be alone very often.
I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night
until Monday morning alone in my apartment.
That’s how I refuel.”

– Audrey Hepburn

“In still moments by the sea…we can see into ourselves.”

Published on 09/22/201809/22/2018 by moorezart7 Comments

13731824_1361463187214853_8036055648601942620_o — The Path Down- Douglas Moorezart, copyright 2016, all rights reserved

“In still moments by the sea life seems large-drawn and simple. It is there we can see into ourselves.”

― Rolf Edberg

“In the fall, I believe again in poetry”

Published on 09/10/2018 by moorezart2 Comments

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“In the fall, I believe again in poetry, if nothing else it is a movement of the mind.”

— Jaakko Ahokas

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Summer Sunset in my Garden, photography by D. Moorezart, c 2018, all rights reserved

“Each life needs its own quiet place.”

Published on 09/02/201809/02/2018 by moorezart7 Comments

Dark and Light - D. Moorezart, c 2017, all rights reserved — Dark and Light – D. Moorezart, c 2017, all rights reserved

“Each life needs its own quiet place.”

– Melody Beattie

“A city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time”

Published on 08/26/201808/26/2018 by moorezart15 Comments

“A city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time”

― Patrick Geddes

emerald skyline 4-2000 — Emerald City Skyline – D. Moorezart, c 2016, all rights reserved

“You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!”

Published on 08/11/201808/11/2018 by moorezart11 Comments

vintage cosmos 99 1200 — Vintage Cosmos – Douglas Moorezart, copyright 2016, all rights reserved. (Available as prints)

“You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!”

― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“Follow your bliss… doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.”

Published on 07/20/201808/25/2018 by moorezartLeave a comment

“If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living… Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.”

Joseph Campbell

poor box 2 3K — San Juan Capistrano, D.M, c 2018

” Will it be here… a place which will not elude us ? “

Published on 07/14/201807/14/2018 by moorezart10 Comments

On the Edge – original photography by Douglas Moorezart, copyright 2017, all rights reserved

“Will it be here that we shall find a place
which will not elude us, or which if it remains
does not exert on us a culpable attraction?

Or must we, leaning over the deck and
watching the shores glide by,
move forever onward?”

― André Gide, Urien’s Voyage

No. 16 – Wish You Were Here

Published on 07/01/201807/14/2018 by moorezart24 Comments

Good retro morning to all from somewhere in Los Angeles, California!

Photo Dedicated to Ms. W. on the East Coast!

“Some of us aren’t meant to belong. Some of us have to turn the world upside down…”

Published on 06/23/201806/23/2018 by moorezart11 Comments

“Some of us aren’t meant to belong.
Some of us have to turn the world upside down
and shake the hell out of it until we
make our own place in it.”

― Elizabeth Lowell, Remember Summer

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six — Days of Summer, photography by Douglas Moorezart, copyright 2017, all rights reserved

Father’s Day: “it matters who I remember he was”

Published on 06/17/201806/17/2018 by moorezart3 Comments

It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

— Anne Sexton

“summer to your heart”

Published on 06/14/201806/14/2018 by moorezart4 Comments

sunflower-sentry-1200e — Summer to Your Heart, c 2017, all rights reserved, Douglas Moorezart

I know I am but summer to your heart (Sonnet XXVII)

I know I am but summer to your heart,
And not the full four seasons of the year;
And you must welcome from another part
Such noble moods as are not mine, my dear.
No gracious weight of golden fruits to sell
Have I, nor any wise and wintry thing;
And I have loved you all too long and well
To carry still the high sweet breast of Spring.
Wherefore I say: O love, as summer goes,
I must be gone, steal forth with silent drums,
That you may hail anew the bird and rose
When I come back to you, as summer comes.
Else will you seek, at some not distant time,
Even your summer in another clime.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Never mind searching for the person you are…”

Published on 05/30/201808/25/2018 by moorezart12 Comments

LOST YOUR WAY — Aspirations – Douglas Moorezart, c 2016, all rights reserved

“Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person
you aspire to be.”

~Robert Brault

“If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass…”

Published on 05/27/201808/25/2018 by moorezart18 Comments

“If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass,
you live more richly those moments.”
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— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Mindful – D. Moorezart, c 2018, all rights reserved

“…we’ve no money for butter”

Published on 05/14/201805/14/2018 by moorezart22 Comments

“…When I am an old woman I shall wear purple, With a red hat which doesn’t go and doesn’t suit me, And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves, And satin sandals, and say we’ve no money for butter”

— Jenny Joseph

Sage in my Garden - Douglas Moorezart, c 2015, prints: http://fineartamerica.com/featured/purple-garden-douglas-moorezart.html — Purple – Douglas Moorezart, c 2015

“We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.”

Published on 05/05/201805/05/2018 by moorezart24 Comments

“We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.”

― David Mitchell, The Cloud Atlas

Ancestors – Douglas Moorezart, c 2018, all rights reserved

Every Weed a Flower Somewhere

Published on 04/21/201804/27/2018 by moorezart9 Comments

Every Weed
a Flower Somewhere
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here, a trampled weed
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dismissed, dreaming hopeful seed
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there, a flower freed
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d.w.moore

Wild Coneflowers, photography – Douglas Moorezart, copyright 2015, all rights reserved

“We… arrive where we started, And know the place for the first time.”

Published on 04/18/201804/18/2018 by moorezart6 Comments

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.

T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding

New Year, D. Moorezart, copyright 2017, all rights reserved

“a parallel life”

Published on 04/08/201804/08/2018 by moorezart6 Comments

“a parallel life, as dreams shadow

waking but never intersect it”

— Edmund White

one — Parallel – Douglas Moorezart, copyright 2017, all rights reserved

“it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment.”

Published on 03/31/201803/31/2018 by moorezart21 Comments

Pacific Highway version 5 1200 — Quiet Moments – Douglas Moorezart, copyright 2016, all rights reserved

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“All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must learn how to be alone – and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment.”

— David Whyte

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