The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.*

World lost a wonderful man today. Ezra Caldwell - thank you for sharing your life with us. You will be remembered and missed so much by so many people in the World. Family, friends and total strangers like me. It was great to “know” you. You are a lifetime inspiration for me. 
Ezra's story begins here 

* by Marcus Tullius Cicero

I would fail as a mother, if my child one day, would choose a religion...

Organized religion is violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children. *

* from Christopher Hitchens "God Is Not Great"

toddler

 The fundamental job of a toddler is to rule the universe *

*Lawrence Kutner

mock-up

Alchemy is the art that separates what is useful from what is not by transforming it into its ultimate matter and essence.  

* by Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus

2+1

kiss

 

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.*

* by Bernard Meltzer

dad

Any man can be a father.

It takes someone special to be a dad.

work & play

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. *
* by Arnold J. Toynbee

mother

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.

She never existed before.

The woman existed, but the mother, never.
A mother is something absolutely new.*

*by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

my sunshine

I have a baby. I am reduced to a milkfactory now. My brain left for holidays. Hopefully not permanent ones...

over due

I'm not impatient anymore. He will come when he is ready. Obviously he didn't want to be a Virgo. Libra is better anyway...

eight months

new life is almost ready to come out... let's hope it will arrive the most natural way possible, in water, with no medication or doctors, surrounded by love peace & patience...

six months

7 kg extra weight to carry - it's getting serious now.

21 weeks

I had detected first moves of the baby why laying on this beach, after eating the best octopus in my life. Baby likes it too, I suppose. Sintra, Portugal.

new life...

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

by Khalil Gibran

e a t i n g

We eat not just to support our bodies, but also as a way to feel good emotionally and mentally. *

* by Govinda

I had recently done 10 days Master Cleanse detox fast, which gave me loads of positive energy and helped me to understand the true joy of eating. Wonderful experience.

c h o i c e

We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come. *

* by Milan Kundera from The Unbearable Lightness of Being

f a i t h

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. *

* by Buddha

i n t u i t i o n

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. *

* by Albert Einstein

good life

The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge. *

* by Bertrand Russell

the trick

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.*

* by Carlos Castaneda

l o v e

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.*

*Antoine de Saint-Exupery

new chapter

I had very strange day yesterday.
Was dealing with the joys and sorrows of my past.
I am ready for the new chapter of life now.
With positive energy from the people I love and care for.

t a r g e t

(picture taken in Pingyao, China)

Action without thought is like the target without the aim.

d a w d l i n g

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking *

* by Albert Einstein

s u n r i s e

(another night with no sleep, morning glory over my uni, Copenhagen)

In times of life crisis, whether wild fires or smoldering stress, the first thing I do is go back to basics... am I eating right, am I getting enough sleep, am I getting some physical and mental exercise everyday.*

* by Edward Albert

go on

To me the most important thing is the sense of going on. You know how beautiful things are when you're travelling.*

* by Edward Hopper

g l u t t o n y

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign that something is eating us...

i l l u s i o n

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance...
Illusion is the first of all pleasures *

* by Oscar Wilde

free as a bird

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

i l l n e s s

Every human being is the author of his own health or disease. *

* by Buddha

w h y ?

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. *

* by Albert Einstein

t e x t u r e

The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.

t r a v e l

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. *

* by Laozi

d e s o l a t e

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing, that we see too late the one that is open.*

* by Alexander Graham Bell

t i m e

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

m a n

photo by Kit

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. *

* by Katherine Hepburn

s o r r o w

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.*

*by Joseph Conrad

f r i e n d s h i p

Aleksandra - my best friend; streets of Granada, Spain 2006

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

m a r r i a g e

My brother Ralf and his wife on their wedding day, some years ago, Denmark

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. *

* by Friedrich Nietzsche

o p p o r t u n i t y

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. *

* by Mark Twain

r o m a n c e

They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever*

* by Oscar Wilde

a s h t a n g a . y o g a

Do your practice and all is coming.*

* Pattabhi Jois

m i r a c l e

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.*

*Buddha

100%

Sunset over Ulaanbataar, July 2007.

Spend 100% of your time with those who give you life and energize you.

i m a g i n a t i o n

Taken from transmongolian train.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.*

* by Albert Einstein

s a l v a t i o n

Ying&Yang, YuenLong, Hongkong.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others *

* by Buddha

h a p p i n e s s

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.*

*by Dalai Lama

f r e e d o m

Selfportrait taken by the Bajkal Lake, July 2007

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. *

*by Aldous Huxley

l o v e

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.*

*by Thomas Merton