“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” ― Maya Angelou Charles River – Boston, MA Sailboats at CBI Taken on iPhone 6 in late May 2017 By Emily K Chalko
“My mother… she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.” Jodi Picoult Happy Mother’s Day! I love you to the moon and back. Shot on iPhone 6 by Emily K Chalko Boston, MA
“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.” -Jane Austen Cambridge, MA Charles River Shot on iPhone 6 while on a run By Emily Chalko
“She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. ‘Time’ for her isn’t something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water.” -Roman Payne Photo shot on iPhone 6 Ducks taking flight Charles … More She is free in her wildness…
“Here I came to the very edge where nothing at all needs saying, everything is absorbed through weather and the sea, and the moon swam back, its rays all silvered, and time and again the darkness would be broken by the crash of a wave, and every day on the balcony of the sea, wings … More It is born
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” -Winston Churchill – Taken on my iPhone 6s at the end of a run Boston, MA Charles River – Emily Chalko
Run it. You can do it. — Taken on iPhone mid run Boston, MA Charles River
Be patient With yourself Nothing in nature Blooms all year – – – Boston, MA Charles River looking across the lagoon at sunset Taken on iPhone
Pink Anemone In the garden The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all… Emily K. Chalko
Every flower Must push Through the dirt To get to bathe in the sunlight … October 2016
