big sky dreams

"The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong."

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

"And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year, ‘Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown’. And he replied: “Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way."

— From a poem entitled ‘God Knows’ written by Miss Minnie Louise Haskins in Bristol, England in 1908, revived by King George 6th in a broadcast he made during the darkest days of World War 2.

"Louie found that the raft offered an unlikely intellectual refuge. He had never recognized how noisy the civilized world was. Here, drifting in almost total silence, with no scents other than the singed odor of the raft, no flavors on his tongue, nothing moving but the slow procession of shark fins, every vista empty save water and sky, his time unvaried and unbroken, his mind was freed of an encumbrance that civilization had imposed on it. In his head, he could roam anywhere, and he found that his mind was quick and clear, his imagination unfettered and supple. He could stay with a thought for hours, turning it about."

— Unbroken: Laura Hillenbrand

You Will Tell Them YES | 

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John Muir | Etsy

"A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both."

—

François Auguste René Chateaubriand

Buck | Winner - Audience Award, Sundance Film Festival 2011 (watch the trailer here).

“Your horse is a mirror to your soul, and sometimes you may not like what you see. Sometimes, you will.” Buck Brannaman

I am emailing the babysitter right now, marking out June 17th to go see this movie. I expect it to be insightful and moving on many levels, can’t wait …. ! 

Check out Buck’s schedule, he’s got several dates in Montana.

"Never be afraid to die, because you are born to die."

— Walter Breuning, World’s oldest man died in Montana, aged 114.

(Source: Daily Mail)

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."

— Henry David Thoreau

"There’s nothing Western folk admire so much as pluck in a woman."

— Isabella L. Bird (A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains)

"You can see what man made from the seat of an automobile, but the best way to see what God made is from the back of a horse."

— Charles M Russell

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"Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul."

— Ivan Doig (The Whistling Season)