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"If we’re going to talk, then let’s talk. Forget about what is polite or proper and delve right into what is sincere and honest. Lead me down through the labyrinth of your true, spectacular self. I am not interested in pleasantries.
If you want a conversation, then let’s get lost." —@beautaplin, Real Talk
Feed your hunger for travel, learning, and adventure and recruit others to join you as you broaden your horizons.
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music" #🌃#🎼 ✨ — Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays
Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra - Live Symphony (2016) @ Coal Harbour
"His old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front."
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
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Tomorrow is the first day of summer so here are some California poppies to celebrate the beauty and bounty of spring! Have a great Happy Father's Day to all!
“Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions. In childhood we ask, ‘Why is there good and evil?' ‘How does nature work?' ‘Why am I me?'
If circumstances and temperament allow, we then build on these questions during adulthood, our curiosity encompassing more and more of the world until at some point we may reach that elusive stage where we are bored by nothing.” — Alain De Botton, The Art of Travel
"Humans have been crossing deserts by camel for millennia, sailing seas for a thousand years, climbing mountains for a hundred—the sky is the last great terra incognita for adventurers.." #✈️
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Wind, Sand and Stars)
"What we find exotic abroad may be what we hunger for in vain at home" —The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton
"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time." —John Lubbock, The Use Of Life
"What we find exotic abroad may be what we hunger for in vain at home" —The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton
i have a new favorite polaroid... i "borrowed" it from my mom - and i finally got the proper film for it. (i just have to work out the focus - you can't see what you are focusing on - it's all an estimation.)
“What, then, is a travelling mind-set? Receptivity might be said to be its chief characteristic. Receptive, we approach new places with humility. We carry with us no rigid ideas about what is or is not interesting. We irritate locals because we stand in traffic islands and narrow streets and admire what they take to be unremarkable small details. We risk getting run over because we are intrigued by the roof of a government building or an inscription on a wall”
The Art of Travel, Alain De Botton
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September is perfect for new beginnings. Typically January is the beginning of the year, but for me September always feels like New Year.
JUST A HAPPY BIRTHDAY🎈
I love having the freedom to be so candid and unfiltered in my photos now, just more personal. 💞 Life these days is exciting, and filled with inspiration, fulfilling work, and no pressure. 🌈⛅️
~My personal thoughts/notes on being a year older...
• Notice moments of love and bits of beauty in your everyday life 🍃✨
• All mornings should start with good coffees and great companion ☕️🌄
• Wellness means feeling good physically, mentally and emotionally; happiness, confidence, loving your life and what you’re doing in the world. And having a strong support network—it’s hard to be healthy without that!! 🌎️✨
Happy 2016-2017 one and all •
"Love is the most important thing in life, and it happens when you least expect it" ❤️ —Diane Kruger
⋅ (Article reading www.townandcountrymag.com/a6656)
"The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning.
The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color." — Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting
"The truth is, your lifestyle is not defined by the things you live with, but by the way you live and the happiness it brings to yourself and others." 🌟 #🌈
"We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity.
When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything" 🍃💦💚 —Jonah Lehrer, Why We Travel: The San Francisco Panorama (McSweeney’s, scienceblogs.com/cortex/2009/12/10/why-we-travel)
Quick snap with @x5ft while she was back in town! (to do a presentation for @dcontentconf #dcc16 ✨⚡️✨
“My two favourite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything. The perfect day: riding a bike to the library.” ― Peter Golkin
Vancouver Bike Share | Mobi
"It seems like life is speckled with these moments or wakeup calls when you realize again and again that life is short- perspective is everything... knowing that we get to wake up each day and experience LIFE... we get to breathe air and hug our families and hear them laugh. It's all such a gift, a gift that I hope never ever to let go to waste, even for a moment. Love is everything." 💞
Feed your hunger for travel, learning, and adventure and recruit others to join you as you broaden your horizons.
“What, then, is a travelling mind-set? Receptivity might be said to be its chief characteristic. Receptive, we approach new places with humility. We carry with us no rigid ideas about what is or is not interesting. We irritate locals because we stand in traffic islands and narrow streets and admire what they take to be unremarkable small details. We risk getting run over because we are intrigued by the roof of a government building or an inscription on a wall”
The Art of Travel, Alain De Botton
“Sublime places repeat in grand terms a lesson that ordinary life typically introduces viciously: that the universe is mightier than we are, that we are frail and temporary and have no alternative but to accept limitations on our will, that we must bow to necessities greater than ourselves.
This is the lesson written into the stones of the desert and the ice fields of the poles. So grandly is it written there that we may come away from such places not crushed but inspired by what lies beyond us, privileged to be subject to such majestic necessities. The sense of awe may even shade into a desire to worship.”
—from The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton
"We need the tonic of wildness—At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable.
We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain which lasts three weeks and produces freshets.
We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander" 👟
— Walden by Henry David Thoreau
(even though it's felt like summer for almost a month)
Darkroom Hacker Beta Test
Action=Noir Dreams II
duotone + Brushfruit
“What, then, is a travelling mind-set? Receptivity might be said to be its chief characteristic. Receptive, we approach new places with humility. We carry with us no rigid ideas about what is or is not interesting. We irritate locals because we stand in traffic islands and narrow streets and admire what they take to be unremarkable small details. We risk getting run over because we are intrigued by the roof of a government building or an inscription on a wall”
The Art of Travel, Alain De Botton
“Nietzsche also proposed a second kind of tourism, whereby we may learn how our societies and identities have been formed by the past and so acquire a sense of continuity and belonging.
The person practising this kind of tourism ‘looks beyond his own individual transitory existence and feels himself to be the spirit of his house, his race, his city’.
He can gaze at old buildings and feel ‘the happiness of knowing that he is not wholly accidental and arbitrary but grown out of a past as its heir, flower, and fruit, and that his existence is thus excused and indeed justified'.”
—The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton