Afghan Rose Suite

Photo by Jesse Onkka

“The limitless starlight above me shines from suns that extinguished a billion years ago.  It is impossible to grasp the idea that nothing is ever created or destroyed, that everything always was and still is and only changes in shape or form or frequency, traveling on a wave of light and a story that doesn’t end.”

            -from “Once: Letters From a Lost Creek” by Jimmy Watts

Afghan Rose Suite

Photo by Jesse Onkka

“Gods have long abandoned the banality of war though they were stirred by a hundred year-old guitarist I heard in Brazil, also the autistic child at the piano.”

            -from “The Theory and Practice of Rivers” by Jim Harrison

Afghan Rose Suite

Photo by Jesse Onkka

“How did we get to a place where to have an opinion is more culturally rewarded than to have a question?”

            -Maria Popova

Afghan Rose Suite

Photo by Jesse Onkka

“Writers and politicians share an embarrassed moment when they are sure all problems will disappear if you get the language right.”

            -from “The Theory and Practice of Rivers” by Jim Harrison