The above photo has just been published in the current issue of Light Leaks Magazine, which also features a shot by Christopher Evans. I can’t wait to get this into my hot little hands.
Shattered by the wind
One should identify with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subject to suffering…
~ Simone Weil
Little love
I had a fabulous time yesterday evening at the opening night of “Big Love”, a play written by Charles Mee and directed by my friend Joanna Garfinkel. It was a very enjoyable performance to watch, and kept me fully engaged the whole time. The cast is delightful and well cast in their roles, and the staging is fun and makes good use of the space.
I felt the woman characters were more fully realized than the males, (which I’m okay with) but maybe that’s just because I could identify the three brides as different aspects of my personality. I really loved this play and hope it does well during the run. It was a sold out performance yesterday evening.
Big Love
January 24 – February 3, 2007
TELUS Studio Theatre
All shows start at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: adult $20, student $12, senior: $14
Life is a vast and intricate conspiracy designed to keep us well supplied with blessings. What kind of blessings? Palatial homes, attractive lovers, lottery winnings, career success? Maybe. But just as
likely: interesting surprises, unexpected challenges, gifts we hardly know what to do with, conundrums that force us to get smarter.Novelist William Vollman referred to the latter types of blessings when he said that “the most important and enjoyable thing in life is doing something that’s a complicated, tricky problem for you that you don’t know how to solve.”
excerpted from the book
“PRONOIA IS THE ANTIDOTE FOR PARANOIA: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings” by Rob Brezny
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
~ William Saroyan
Exploring the World: the traveling eye
I have work in a travel photography show called Exploring the World, opening at Exposure Gallery on Friday January 12th at 8pm. Please drop by if you have the chance.
Light through yonder window
The essence of the spiritual path lies only in the beauty of the ordinariness, in the mundane, and in freedom of separation between the spiritual and the ordinary.
~ Dr. Thynn Thynn
Laundromat
I think it was October when I submit my series of laundromat photos to File Magazine, and they were immediately accepted for publication. The series just went up on the File site today, and I am very happy to have this group of shots seen here by a wider audience.
Swing set
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
~ Agnes Repplier
One blink of an eye away
We already have everything we need. There is no need for self-improvement. All these trips that we lay on ourselves – the heavy-duty fearing that we’re bad and hoping that we’re good, the identities that we so dearly cling to, the rage, the jealousy and the addictions of all kinds – never touch our basic wealth. They are like clouds that temporarily block the sun. But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.
~ Pema Chodron