EXTREME BALANCE... SPA's KEEP THE BALANCE CHALLENGE...

 "To put everything in balance is good, 

to put everything in harmony is better." 

~

 Victor Hugo

CAT WITH AN ATTITUDE... DIGITAL WHISPER's HERE KITTY, KITTY CHALLENGE...

"Women and cats will do as they please, 

and men and dogs should relax 

and get used to the idea." 

~

 Robert A. Heinlein

PERPETUAL BOREDOM... MY SOUL's DARK IMAGINATION's STONE ANGELS CHALLENGE...

 "My life is a perfect graveyard

 of buried hopes." 

~ 

L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables

BY THE SEA... OMM's IT's ALL HAPPENING BY THE SEA CHALLENGE...

 maggie and milly and molly and may went down to the beach (to play one day) 

 and maggie discovered a shell that sang so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles,

and milly befriended a stranded star whose rays five languid fingers were; 

 and molly was chased by a horrible thing which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:

and may came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as alone. 

 For whatever we lose (like a you or a me) it's always ourselves we find in the sea

~

E.E. Cummings

TEA FOR TWO... SPA's HEDGEHOG CHALLENGE...

 "If wits were pins, 

the man would be a veritable hedgehog." 

~

 Frances Hardinge

MERMAIDS ARE HARD TO FIND... DIGITAL WHISPER's UNDER THE SEA CHALLENGE...

 

Under the sea Under the sea 

Darling it's better  Down where it's wetter 

Take it from me 

Up on the shore they work all day 

Out in the sun they slave away 

While we devotin'  Full time to floatin' 

Under the sea

~

The Little Mermaid

WELCOME TO MY GARDEN... OMM's FLOWERS CHALLENGE...

 "The earth laughs in flowers." 

~

 Ralph Waldo Emerson

I FIXED MY SISTER... MY SOULS DARK IMAGINATION's PECULIAR CHILDREN CHALLENGE...

 … Lights will guide you home 

And ignite your bones 

And I will try to fix you

~

Coldplay

RESCUING THE FALLEN... SPA's LADDER CHALLENGE...

"May God bless and keep you always, 

May your wishes all come true, 

May you always do for others 

And let others do for you. 

May you build a ladder to the stars 

And climb on every rung, 

May you stay forever young," 

~

 Bob Dylan

OUT IN THE WILD WEST... DIGITAL WHISPER's COWGIRL MONA CHALLENGE...

 "Puttin’ on a cowboy hat & a pair of boots 

doesn’t make you country; 

Like puttin’ on a ball gown & glass heels 

won’t make me Cinderella." 

~

 Kellie Elmore

WILD RIDE... OMM's CRAZY HATS CHALLENGE...

"It is always cruel to laugh at people, 

of course, 

although sometimes 

if they are wearing an ugly hat 

it is hard to control yourself." 

~

 Lemony Snicket

TECHNICOLOR PUNK... MY SOULS DARK IMAGININGS GOTHIC STEAMPUNK CHALLENGE......

 "A clockwork heart 

can't replace the real thing." 

~

 Dru Pagliassotti

STANDBACK GENTLEMEN... SPA's ARCHER CHALLENGE...

“A good archer is known 

not by his arrows but by his aim.” 

“An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backward.

 So when life is dragging you back with difficulties,

 it means that it's going to launch you into something great. 

So just focus, and keep aiming.”

DADDY's DUO... DIGITAL WHISPER's DADDY CHALLENGE...

 "When I was a boy of 14, 

my father was so ignorant 

I could hardly stand to have the old man around. 

But when I got to be 21, 

I was astonished at how much 

the old man had learned in seven years." 

~

 Mark Twain

RED RIBBON... OMM's BLACK, WHITE & RED CHALLENGE...

 "When I am an old woman 

I shall wear purple. 

With a red hat which doesn't go, 

and doesn't suit me." 

~

 Jenny Joseph

SEA LIFE... DIGITAL WHISPER's SEASHELLS CHALLENGE...

 "She wanted to climb out of her life 

as if it were a seashell 

she could abandon on the shore 

and walk away from, barefoot." 

~

 Laini Taylor

AVIATION INOVATION... SPA's AVIATION CHALLENGE...

 "The desire to fly is an idea 

handed down to us by our ancestors who... 

looked enviously on the birds 

soaring freely through space... 

on the infinite highway of the air." 

~ 

Wilbur Wright

MOONSTONES... OMM's MOONGLOW CHALLENGE...

 Moonglow… where the light falls 

and the beautiful stays 

when the stars settle in… 

come with me. 

~

 butterflies rising

EVER ELUSIVE LIGHTS... MY SOUL's DARK IMAGINATION's IGNIS FACTUUS CHALLENGE...

 "If happiness always depends 

on something expected in the future, 

we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp 

that ever eludes our grasp, 

until the future, and ourselves, 

vanish into the abyss of death." 

~

 Alan W. Watts

A TALE OF FORTUNE... SPA's GYPSY CHALLENGE...

 I love the feeling down inside me 

That says to run away 

To come and be a gypsy 

And laugh the gypsy way. 

~

 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

WHAT SCARES ME... DIGITAL WHISPER's WHAT SCARES YOU CHALLENGE...

 "Don't be pushed around 

by the fears in your mind. 

Be led by the dreams in your heart." 

~

 Roy T. Bennett

MORIA's GHOST... MY SOUL's DARK IMAGINATION's MOORS CHALLENGE...

 "The Scottish moors 

are a strange and lonely place, 

yet somehow incredibly beautiful." 

— 

Hannah Wilde

SALUTING THEIR SACRIFICE... OMM's SOLDIER CHALLENGE...

"The true soldier fights 

not because he hates what is in front of him, 

but because he loves 

what is behind him." 

~

 G.K. Chesterton

CANCELED IN THE PRIME OF LIFE... SPA's CANCELATION MARKS CHALLENGE...

 

                                "anger cancels good judgement!" 

                                                                                 ~

                                                                                                                      Sister Souljah

UP IN A SWING... DIGITAL WHISPER's SWING CHALLENGE...

 How do you like to go up in a swing, 

 Up in the air so blue? 

 Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing 

 Ever a child can do!

~

Robert Lewis Stevenson