Image © 2003 by Michael A. Pancier, All Rights Reserved"Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time." -- John Steinbeck
The Wave - Coyote Buttes - Arizona"Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.”
-- Saint Augustine
"I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe."© 2008 by Michael A. Pancier
-- Dalai Lama
Image of Egmont Island Lighthouse © 2009 by Michael A. Pancier"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
-- William Jennings Bryan
© 2009 Michael Pancier Photography"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."-- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Red Shouldered Hawk © 2010 by Michael Pancier Photography"It is the general belief of the Indians that after a man dies his spirit is somewhere on the earth or in the sky, we do not know exactly where, but we are sure that his spirit still lives. . . . So it is with WakanTanka. We believe that he is everywhere, yet he is to us as the spirits of our friends, whose voices we can not hear."
-- Chased-by-Bears, Santee-Yanktonai Sioux
Sunshine Skyway Bridge 12/31/09 - East Beach - Fort de Soto"That is the road we all have to take - over the Bridge of Sighs into eternity."
-- Soren Kierkegaard
© 2009 by Michael A. Pancier
