I believe I recognized at the gym last night, working out for me is metaphorically like trying to pound a pork loin into becoming a filet mignon.
I think the best I'll ever get is thick cut bacon...
Sometimes I just want to be someone else... *sigh*
Tag: thoughts
A Paradox of Paradoxes
Paradoxes naturally exist any time we deal in absolutes.
Life is rarely, ever an absolute. The improbabilities that exist in infinite probabilities are also infinite.
Never, and always, should almost never be spoken.
Similarities?
Rika and I sigh similarly, so I was told.
Makes sense. We're both grumbly creatures, whom are mostly unwanted by others, and are now stuck with each other...
Try For Me, Try For The Future
Only through the explicit sharing of our thoughts, feelings and fears can we begin to understand each other. Only through opening our minds and embracing our essence can we live a life of tolerance. Only through this tolerance and our want for a better world can we truly give our love to each other. But everything must start with communication and open minds.
Originally written March 15, 2010
A Touch of Cold
A touch of cold
Stroke of sting eased
By the Sun so bold
Heavenly light guiding our days
Streaming fingers of gold
A touch of cold
Over life so frail
Earth’s age untold
Born from the ocean brine
Accepted on landward fold
A touch of cold
Hearts and hands
Ours to hold
Originally written May 3, 2013
Just Leaving This Here
Bad photography and red eyes makes baby Jesus cry.
Think About It
So Zo had a performance at the casino on Sunday night, as part of the casino's Independence Day celebration. There were fireworks outside immediately after the performance.
As we walked back in heading to dinner, I note to her the cruel irony of celebrating American Independence Day at a Native American owned casino.... something about that just felt very wrong.
Realization
In speaking with my girlfriend tonight, I think I came to a realization within myself...
I live through my photography, and my writing, and my art... the things I create. And I always want them to be breathtaking. Not just nice, or good... but breathtaking. It means so much to my heart when people enjoy my creations, and it is soul crushing when the things I create go largely unnoticed.
Which, is most often the case, really.
But why?
I think I now know why.
I create to bring beauty into the world. To show the beauty that I see. To express the beauty I feel inside of me. I want people to see this beauty, to recognize it and appreciate it.
So few people see any beauty in what or who I am. I’m replacing it with what I can give. With what is inside.
Sobering recognition.
Photography Lessons
Sometimes unique camera angles can add an artistic flair to an image.
But when you're just a couple degrees off level, it just looks sloppy. Learn how to level your camera, and use the straightening tool to correct for levels where necessary.
Just a little photography 101 for you....
Unnecessary Distraction
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/astonishing-new-footage-shows-gorilla-8082168
People complain that there are greater tragedies in the world that we're ignoring worrying about a gorilla in a zoo being shot in defense of a child.
But people are genuinely upset about this.
Possibly because they recognize the gorilla as also an intelligent soul, capable of empathy, who didn't deserve to be killed because of the mistake of a child, and his mother, and all the rest of the adults who took no action while the child climbed into the enclosure.
Possibly because they're heartless like me, and would rather have clemency on the gorilla that did nothing wrong, one of 30,000 left of his species, and give the situation a little time, and try to resolve it another way, instead of putting so much concern over one of 8,000,000,000 people on this over-populated planet of humans...
The human response is always to immediately destroy the threat. But intelligent people see that it was only a threat for this instant. Destroying it destroys more than the gorilla - it further destroys our humanity.