"Fanatics in power and the funnel of a tornado have this in common - the narrow path in which they move is marked by violence and destruction." - Oscar Ostlund
11.17.2008
tornado
10.20.2008
essence
"It is better to create than to be learned,
creating is the true essence of life." - Barthold Georg Niebuhr
clowns
"Because the mask is your face, the face is a mask, so I'm thinking of the face as a mask because of the way I see faces is coming from an African vision of the mask which is the thing that we carry around with us, it is our presentation, it's our front, it's our face." - Faith Ringgold
comfort
"Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude,
we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life;
we receive counsels and comforts,
we get under no other condition..." - Amelia E. Barr
9.20.2008
clear lake
"The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change." - Unknown
9.18.2008
bark @ foliage
"... All these things have you said of beauty.
Yet in truth you spoke not of her but of needs unsatisfied,
And beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.
It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth,
But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted.
It is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear,
But rather an image you see though you close your eyes
and a song you hear though you shut your ears.
It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a wing attached to a claw,
But rather a garden for ever in bloom and a flock of angels for ever in flight.
People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.
But you are life and you are the veil.
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and your are the mirror."
- Kahlil Gibran
beyond
"Beyond the horizon of the place we lived when we were young
In a world of magnets and miracles..."
Pink Floyd - "High Hopes"
9.17.2008
adopt a bear!
FACT:
Giant pandas are one of the world’s most threatened species – as few as 1,600 remain in the wild and face continual threats to their survival.
World Wildlife Fund's efforts to save wildlife at risk.
- World Wildlife Fund (Canada)
... :'(
distorted view
"Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful
that which is distorted." - Percy Bysshe Shelley
9.16.2008
turn the world upside down
"Vision? What do you know about my vision? My vision would turn your world upside down, tear asunder your illusions and send the sanctuary of your own ignorance crashing down around you. Now ask yourself... are you really ready to see that vision?"
Huey Freeman - "The Boondocks"
9.04.2008
alice couture
"I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, Sir, because I'm not myself you see." - Alice in Wonderland
9.02.2008
fade to red
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
T.S. Eliot - "The Hollowmen"
veins
"The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day
runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures." - Rabindranath Tagore
up-up+away
I can't stand to fly
I'm not that naive
I'm just out to find
The better part of me
I'm more than a bird... I'm more than a plane
More than some pretty face beside a train
It's not easy to be me
Wish that I could cry
Fall upon my knees
Find a way to lie
About a home I'll never see
It may sound absurd... but don't be naive
Even heroes have the right to bleed
I may be disturbed... but won't you concede
Even heroes have the right to dream
It's not easy to be me
Up, up and away... away from me
It's all right... you can all sleep sound tonight
I'm not crazy... or anything...
I can't stand to fly
I'm not that naive
Men weren't meant to ride
With clouds between their knees
I'm only a man in a silly red sheet
Digging for kryptonite on this one way street
Only a man in a funny red sheet
Looking for special things inside of me
Inside of me
Inside me
Yeah, inside me
Inside of me
I'm only a man
In a funny red sheet
I'm only a man
Looking for a dream
I'm only a man
In a funny red sheet
And it's not easy, hmmm, hmmm, hmmm...
It's not easy to be me
Five For Fighting - "Superman"
8.18.2008
structure
"Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality." - Martin Luther King, Jr
8.16.2008
between dreams
"The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams
no reasons are necessary." - Ashleigh Brilliant
animal instinct
"As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
7.24.2008
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