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~Millard Fuller
Some blue for Monday blues.
I have had a lot on my mind lately. Almost to the point where I'm unable to get anyhing done because of overload. I'm re-evaluating my life, my priorities, I see things I have thought certain and strong crumble.
I'm supposed to start baking for my cousins matriculation exam party next week, I'm also supposed to take her matriculation exam pictures. And I so gladly do. But right now I feel that everything is just slipping out of my hands.
Especially now, in these times of exams, of joyful new students wearing their student hats. White and pure.
And I remember when I stood there, happy, awaiting the next step in my life. With the diplomas in my hand, with my white hat on my head. Celebrated by family and friends. Free.
I was supposed to do great things, achieve so much. And I feel I have let that young me down. Graduating as the top of my school with a lot of pressure and expectations, from friends, teachers, and most of all from myself.
Where I am now? Have I done anything of significance? Have I used any of the abilities I possess?
It's almost ten years ago. What have I done with these years? What could I have done? Where could I be, if I just had continued to work, to achieve, walk the path I knew how to walk? Studying, reading, writing, researching, gaining knowledge. Instead I went another way. A way that brought me where I am today. A good place, yes, but...
Still those thoughts haunt me. What if. Still those shackles laid upon me during the school times rattle and ring. I should be somewhere else, doing something more... significant. Which would be what? And what is significant anyway? What is significant to me?
The hard part is to be able to recognise what I want, not what I'm supposed to want. I still struggle, hoping to find peace some day.
Being an adult isn't that easy, is it. Finding ones way, ones path among all the possible ones.
Add to this, it's autumn weather outside, storming, raining. +6'C. A fabulous blue Monday indeed.
*laughing*
I hope you, each and everyone, have a wonderful new week, whether you're sure or unsure about your lives. Let's make it a blast shall we! :)
This gentleman was sitting under an outdoor umbrella n a warm sunny day. His thoughts seemed to be on another time and place.
And for the thousandth time I say.. Sometimes you just have to walk away..
I came across this image while searching for something on my computer. Taken it quite a while back. Then never uploaded it.
That day I took tens of images and none of them worked, And then I realised that the 'missing thing' was that I was wearing shoes. So, here was I wondering around in a field bare feet...
Ahh.. it has become my signature, hasn't it?
You probably would never know by looking but this little flower is less than the size of a dime. It was one of millions covering a grassy field at Golden Gardens Park in Seattle. Everywhere you looked people were laying in the grass, running and jumping, laughing and smiling, enjoying the lovely weather, all without noticing the beauty beneath them or realizing the whole time they were trampling it into the ground. Had this been a larger flower I assume most people would have avoided stepping on it but since it was so small and there were so many they went unnoticed like the blades of grass they grew within. If Julia hadn't pointed them out to me I too would have most likely ignored them in search of larger more prominent subjects to photograph. But I stopped and looked down and noticed how truly beautiful they were. So I took the time to get out my 50mm lens and my reverse mounting ring and got my ghetto macro rig all setup so I could take and share a picture of this one tiny flower and to remind everyone to remember the little things.
"An Indian eventually inherited the eagle's plumes, and with it propitiated the Fates, whom he assumed had a special interest in Indians. It did not occur to him that they might be busy casting dice against gravity; that mice and men, soils and songs, might be merely ways to retard the march of atoms to the sea"
-Aldo Leopold
Deep Thought is an ultra-powerful computer created by the pan-dimensional, hyper-intelligent species of beings (whose three-dimensional protrusions into our universe are ordinary white mice) to come up with the Answer to The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.
Deep Thought will take seven and a half million years of calculation to give the final answer
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freely adapted from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams - 1978
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Abandoned chemical plant's process control room
Visiting my new appartment, still clean of things, except for a couch.
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I recently went to a Gurdwara (Sikh shrine) on the outskirts of Amritsar city, India and noticed her sitting there in deep thought. Your guess is as good as mine about what she was thinking.
As soon as I took this shot she realized what had happened and quickly changed her posture and went about doing ‘Sewa’ or the voluntary service at the Gurdwara premises.
This young lady was in deep thought. I don't even think that she knew I was right there beside her. It was a special and life changing day because her mom got married.
'Your illness and its remedy are within you but you are not aware of it.' - Lord Ra Riaz Gohar Shahi
"Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing?!" - Jack Handey.
SO, in case you've never heard of Jack Handey, he's pretty much the funniest person ever. His 'Deep Thoughts' first aired on SNL a loooong time ago. I have all the books, have since I was a kid, check them out!! I think a lot are also online. I chose this photo because he always has some unassuming scene paired with his quotes. And ALSO, I finally got a water shot that was contrast-y. Turns out, all you need is some good light!
This past weekend I went to a wonderful dinner on Haleiwa Farms by The Drunken Masterchef called Farm-To-Chopstix. Many of the ingredients in the five course dinner are from the farm there and prepared fresh for the meal. Each course was accompanied by a beer pairing from craft breweries. I was taking photos for the event. I’ll post some of them later, but this was my favorite shot of the night. After darkness fell I was using my flash mostly so the photos had some clarity and readability to them. But, I decided to go to auto-ISO and forego the flash for some “ambience” shots. This was actually one of the very last shots I took. It shows the warm vibe and overall contentment from the meal and communion with others… many of whom met for the first time that evening.
Not sure who this guy was but he was certainly deep in thought as I snapped the shot!
File: Farm-to-Chopstix Chinese New Year 20160206-235 (5D2_29245)
A majestically beautiful animal, so much like us, it is amazing to see them. I really love animals, especially in those moments when they don't seem to notice us and are absorbed in themselves.
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I really wasn't thinking about much of anything when I took this but it sure looks like I was.... well yes.. I was. I was thinking about this...
Chopin Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2. Click the link below to listen. I just LOVE classical piano.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj3CHx3TDzw
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Fortune found in a fortune cookie from Leann Chinn takeout
Apple Valley Minnesota
Friday June 10th, 2022
Myself personally, I have never been a giant fan of the fortune cookie. Granted the fortunes are fun to read and sometimes can be quite humorous, but I've never been all that fond of the taste of them