Rope

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free. ~Nikos Kazantzakis

Lamp

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
~Louis-Ferdinand Celine

The Lava Lamp

Reflected

Sock

I have reached an age where if someone tells me to wear socks, I don’t have to. ~Albert Einstein

Knee-highed

Easter socks

Candle

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

Advent

At Both Ends

Door

I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them.
~ Elizabeth Taylor

Slaughter House Rules

An Opening

Pencil

Map out your future — but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.
~Jon Bon Jovi

Three

Sharpening

Diary

"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another."~ J.M. Barrie

Diary

Some Things It's Better You Don't Know

Vase

You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, / But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.~Thomas More

The favorite

Thumbtack

Sometimes the littlest things in life are the hardest to take. You can sit on a mountain more comfortably than on a tack. ~Anonymous

The List

Tack

Chair

To the discontented man no chair is easy. ~Benjamin Franklin

The Zero Hour

Indigo Bloom

Table

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? ~Albert Einstein

In Irons

Dear Alicia

House

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

Home

House on a Hill

Pocket

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past. ~G.K. Chesterton

Chael

Pockets

Car

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car. [E.B. White]

Driving North

That Ride

Mix Tape

"Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they add up to the story of life."
~ Rob Sheffield (Love Is a Mix Tape)

A bag of old cassettes

Packing Up

Crate

It's more about what's in the crate.

Samson

Madeley