Cosmic Candid Camera: Washed Ashore

scorching sun

shimmering sand

swaying shadows

sultry señoritas

smiling from stairwells

scavenging strays

lazy days

dirt roads jammed with cars

noisy bars

filled with refugees

escapees

wanna be's

washed ashore

searching for serenity

Favorite Quotes

• Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms--to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.--Dr. Viktor Frankl/Man's Search for Meaning
• If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.--Albert Einstein
• It’s not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes up short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.--Theodore Roosevelt
• Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is just, good and beautiful.--Plato
• One of the reasons why I have no regular job, and why I haven’t had a regular job for years is quite simply that my ideas differ from those of the gentlemen who hand out jobs.--Van Gogh
• Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.--Woody Allen
• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
• Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.--Goethe
• A wise person does at once what a fool does at last.--Lord Acton
• Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.--Epictectus
• Be careful how you interpret the world, it is like that.--Erich Heller
• Men go abroad to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.--St. Augustine
• Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.--Helen Keller
• Self love is not so vile a sin as self neglect.--Shakespeare
• The ancients were right: The dear old human experience is a singular, brilliant experience that does not resolve into being comfortable in the world. The valley of the shadow is part of that, and you are depriving yourself if you do not experience what humankind has experienced, including doubt and sorrow. We experience pain and difficulty as failure instead of saying, I will pass through this, everyone I have ever admired has passed through this, music has come out of it, literature has come out of it. We should think of our humanity as a privilege.--Marilynne Robinson
• There are many fine things which you mean to do someday, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is surely yours is the present.--Grenville Kleiser
• There may be less to this than meets the eye.--Tallulah Bankhead
• This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.--William Shakespeare
• We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. Through the unknown, unremembered gate, when the last of earth left to discover is that which was the beginning; at the source of the longest river, the voice of the hidden waterfall and the children in the apple-tree not known, because not looked for, but heard, half-heard, in the stillness between two waves of the sea. Quick now, here, now, always--A condition of complete simplicity (costing not less than everything) and all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well and when the tongues of flame are in-folded into the crowned knot of fire and the fire and the rose are one.--T.S. Eliot/Little Gidding
• What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for certain that just ain't so.--Mark Twain
• Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.--Rumi

Cosmic Candid Camera

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Washed Ashore

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