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"Tender Mouth"

What will

The burial of my body be?

The pouring of a sacred cup of wine

Into the tender mouth of

The Earth

And making

My dear sweet lover laugh

One more

Time.

-Hafiz

Persian Sufi Master

the 14th century

When it comes down to the core of things, the one true aspiration of my life is this: One day when my time has passed and i have gone to sleep in the earth, my laughter will continue to sound in the hearts of those I touched, and my eyes will smile down from the night sky as I sip tea with God.

The last few years of my life, I have become very humbled by life in many ways. Though I know that 22 is young, I FEEL just how inexperienced and unworldly I really am when I take a jog around flickr. I feel blessed and honored to be on the same site as some of these prolific and stunning photographers, and I aspire to one day produce the same quality of inspiration for another as they do for me.