Jeff Guess

A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894) Scottish author, essayist ©Jeff Guess 2017

A Vanishing Speck Every year a tiny, tiny bird, the blackpoll warbler migrates across the Atlantic for 3 days without stopping. If you are reading this poem at the beginning of winter the blackpoll warbler with the mass of less than a cedar HB pencil and about the same as a dessertspoon of honey has left the boreal forests of Alaska. To fly directly over the Atlantic Ocean without stopping for three days a distance of 3000 kilometres to Venezuela. Now on the world’s endangere

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life, to doubt, as far as possible, of all things. Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650) French mathematician, scientist and philosopher ©Jeff Guess 2017

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926) German poet ©Jeff Guess 2017

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'Wedding Day' - 1950 ©Jeff Guess 2017

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941) Indian poet and writer ©Jeff Guess 2017

Callistemon 'Violaceus' ©Jeff Guess 2017

2017 Emmy-nominated Shailene Woodley doesn’t own a TV At the Sunday-night awards show, Shailene Woodley claimed! that she’s too cool for TV. “I haven’t had a TV since I moved out of my parents’ house at 18,” says Woodley, who was wearing a green, bespoke Ralph Lauren gown. “When do people have time to [watch TV]? I’m a reader, so I always read a book.” Woodley may not care about TV, but TV cares about her: She’s nominated for Best Supporting Actress in a TV Movie/Limited Seri

Reading is superior to television, the pictures are better. Jeff Guess ©Jeff Guess 2017