8: GreenKarat Website - 2010

GreenKarat Website

I'm just so happy that there are eco friendly and safe ways to get

quality jewelry!

way to go greenkarat!

7: Lord Alfred Tennyson - 1889

This poem has been one of my favorites for a while

such a hopeful poem... there seems to be a moment of fleeting freedom at the very end.

Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea,

But such a tide as moving seems asleep,
Too full for sound and foam,
When that which drew from out the boundless deep
Turns again home.

Twilight and evening bell,
And after that the dark!
And may there be no sadness of farewell,
When I embark;

For though from out our bourne of Time and Place
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crossed the bar.

6: Ernest Hemingway - 1964

One True Sentence

For when you have an artist's block

'' 'Do not worry. You have always written before, and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.'

So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there. It was easy then because there was always one true sentence that I knew or had seen or had heard someone say."

5: Fiction Family- 2008

Throw it Away

I think about the life I live
A figure made of clay
And think about the things I lost
The things I gave away

And when I'm in a certain mood
I search the house and look
One night I found these magic words
In a magic book

Throw it away
Throw it away
Give your love, live your life
Each and every day

And keep your hand wide open
Let the sun shine through
'Cause you can never lose a thing
If it belongs to you

There's a hand to rock the cradle
And a hand to help us stand
With a gentle kind of motion
As it moves across the land

And the hand's unclenched and open
Gifts of life and love it brings
So keep your hand wide open
If you're needing anything

Throw it away
Throw it away
Give your love, live your life
Each and every day

And keep your hand wide open
Let the sun shine through
'Cause you can never lose a thing
If it belongs to you

4: Stephen Edwards-2007

Christmas 2007

written by my ever so talented older brother.

something about owls and loons and crickets sound sooo peaceful together

stephenedwardsmusic.com

3: Benjamin Krain - 1996-2010

Photojournalist.

This guy is absolutely one of my favorites.
He's a genius. Use of color is amazing.

http://www.benjaminkrain.com/

2: Maurice Ravel- 1910

perhaps sad, but the melody is both beautiful and soothing.

1: from Franz Kafka - 1910-20s

"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old"

“You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.”

"Von einem gewissen Punkt an gibt es keine Rückkehr mehr. Dieser Punkt ist zu erreichen."

‎"You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet."

Forward

I am, probably by habit now, a wanderer. I neither belong here nor there... wandering led only by this need to learn and this need to love on others.

I feel as if in learning I am sifting through all this world's shame to find something of use, a speck of beauty and truth in a fallen world. Through this sifting, I have discovered something very important: as much shame there is, there is also that much good and artistic, that much wise and influential.

I want to use this blog as a place to keep all the beautiful things that others have created. There have been so many photo stories, musics, books, paintings, poetry, proverbs and so on that have kept me hoping and believing throughout my growing-up and learning years.

By archiving these inspirational pieces of work, I'm hoping that I will be able to physically see as well as understand what in this world is truly important... what about our lives prompts us to photograph, write, paint, and sing.