some little joy

"I'd like to add some beauty to life. I'd love to make people have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born." —L.M. Montgomery This is a personal blog that includes others' work (click an image to go to its source). - view only my original work/posts - view without reblogs from other blogs  viewing

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Star Valley by Kat Clark Via Flickr: "What makes night within us may leave stars." –Victor Hugo

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I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.'

Toni Morrison

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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

T. S. Eliot

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Truly landlocked people know they are. Know the occasional Bitter Creek or Powder River that runs through Wyoming; that the large tidy Salt Lake of Utah is all they have of the sea and that they must content themselves with bank, shore, beach because they cannot claim a coast. And having none, seldom dream of flight. But the people living in the Great Lakes region are confused by their place on the country’s edge - an edge that is border but not coast. They seem to be able to live a long time believing, as coastal people do, that they are at the frontier where final exit and total escape are the only journeys left. But those five Great Lakes which the St. Lawrence feeds with memories of the sea are themselves landlocked, in spite of the wandering river that connects them to the Atlantic. Once the people of the lake region discover this, the longing to leave becomes acute, and a break from the area, therefore, is necessarily dream-bitten, but necessary nonetheless.

Toni Morrison

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We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private; and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

C.S. Lewis

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Middle School Dance (by kat.clark)

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John Corey Whaley, Noggin

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Nick Lake, In Darkness

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Who are the real heroes? Obviously firefighters, relief workers, Doctors Without Borders, and anyone who – because of their parents' brutal slaying – has become The Bat.

Joss Whedon

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An apple fell and Newton discovered the law of gravity. Hundreds of bombs fell on Palestine and no one discovered the law of humanity.

Naveed Iqbal

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Jess (by kat.clark)

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Rory and me (by kat.clark)

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I wished I hadn’t majored in women filling their pockets with stones and sticking their heads into ovens. Maybe tomorrow the pinhole would widen and I would want to be a marine biologist.

from "Geography Heals All", a short story by Kat Clark

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Sireva María de Todos los Ángeles (by kat.clark)

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And now I write books for teenagers because I vividly remember what it felt like to be a teen facing everyday and epic dangers. I don’t write to protect them. It’s far too late for that. I write to give them weapons–in the form of words and ideas-that will help them fight their monsters. I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.

Sherman Alexie

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Sunday with friends (by kat.clark)