Marlene Javage

“I never met a man that I didn't like.”
― Will Rogers

“All children, except one, grow up.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs.”
― Anton Chekhov

“What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.”
― Kobayashi Issa, Poems