July 2010
4 posts
June 2010
33 posts
“The basic premise of the Founding Fathers was man’s right to his own life, to...”
– Ayn Rand
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When Greatness Slips Away →
As a nation, we are becoming more and more accustomed to a sense of helplessness. We no longer rise to the great challenges before us. It’s not just that we can’t plug the oil leak, which is the perfect metaphor for what we’ve become. We can’t seem to do much of anything. - Bob Herbert
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“Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.”
– Marc Riboud
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“To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something...”
– Elliott Erwitt
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“Art allows us to expand the dimensions of our everyday life.”
– Carlos Jurado
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“Mysteriously, wonderfully, I bid farewell to what goes, I greet what comes; for...”
– Chuang-tzu
2010 is becoming the year of natural disasters
Haiti earthquake - cost $7.2 billion to $13.2 billion and 250,000 lives
Chile earthquake - cost $7 billion and 708 lives
China earthquake - cost 2698 lives
Rio de Janeiro floods and mudslides - cost $13.3 billion and 212 lives
Iceland Eyjafjallajökull Volcano - 95,000 canceled flights cost airlines $1.7 billion
BP oil spill - cost to exceed $9 billion, environmental impact immeasurable
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“My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own...”
– Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
May 2010
19 posts
AESTHETIC BLISS
Vividly experiencing the colors, textures, tones, scents, and rhythms of the world around you, creating a symbiotic intimacy that dissolves the psychological barriers between you and what you observe.
My life is turning into LOST
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Never” has never been a more irrelevant word for you. Events that may have always seemed quite improbable are now well within the range of possibility. Exotic people who up until recently may as well have been fictional characters are showing up as real live actors in your actual life story. Plotlines whose emergence you could not have predicted are...
“In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer...”
– Antoine de Saint Exupery
