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“Did you know what you were looking for in a partner?”
Him - “I was looking for someone who was emotionally intelligent and in touch with their heart. I had never found someone who could vibe with me on that level. That was something I felt immediately. It was like, ‘Wow, she’s soulful, she’s deep, she gets me.’ I wasn’t even actively pursuing a relationship, it just synchronistically came to me.”
Her - "I was always looking for someone who was going to make me a better person but I have given up on that because I had dated some guys who were just…guys. I got to know Ned and he captivated me, and pushed me, and challenged me, and loved me, and here we are…married.”
“How do you like to contribute to the world being a better place?”
Her - “By trying with tremendous to have everything I see and do come from a place of love...if you can. Sometimes you have to have an edge. You have to have self-awareness. You still have to honor and respect yourself. You have to love yourself. That’s hard for a lot of people. When you come from love there’s a sincere-ness to it. You can’t go wrong. It doesn’t mean it’ll all turn out. There are no guarantees. If you have to take a chink out of somebodies armor every so often you do it with intent. That’s also a type of awareness, self-preservation, love. You only do what you have to do when you have to do it. I tell my kids don’t fight, but if you have to fight to protect someone you love, fight to win.”
Him - “I work with people to wake up to their own power and beauty. And then teach them how to embody it. I do workshops with women and do workshops with women called ‘Freeing the Goddess Within’. I also do a workshop for men called ‘Warrior, Lover, Healer’.”
“How you doing today?”
“I’m blessed.”
“Me too! Maybe you could do me a favor…I’m trying to help people realize their dreams today. What’s your dream?”
“I don’t have any dreams.”
“What’s a dream you used to have?”
“Owning my own repair shop. I was a mechanic. I specialized in diesel.”
“What happened to that career?”
“I was involved in an accident and wasn’t able to work for over a year. I hired somebody to take my place, and they had good credentials, things just didn’t work out. I always believed in giving people a second chance…there was this guy that came out of the pen, his name was Fingers, he was a professional safe cracker, and he was doing good for the first six months, but after I had my accident and I wasn’t around to give him support he got back on heroin and robbed my safe. My business was over in Tiburon. Elton John had a condominium right across the street. I was in the richest part of California. Everything just fell apart and I had to file for bankruptcy. It kinda broke me down because I put everything I had into that business…and I haven’t been able to recover from that…it tore me up.”
“How long ago did this happen?”
“Well let’s see…I was 28, now I'm 65.”
“Would you still be interested in running a store?”
“I could run one, but I can’t work anymore. 8 years ago I had a heart attack and a minor stroke and that ended me.”
(1/2)
"I've been doing a lot of deep inner work. The deeper I go the more rewarding it is. I've been learning a lot through osmosis."
(1/3)
“I'm turning 25 and I always think I should be doing more, but I’m learning to be okay with where I am and with who I am, not being content, but accepting myself and not chasing all the time. It is tough in the bay because everyone is always chasing so many amazing things.”
“What’s your favorite way to express love to each other?”
“I stop her and give her random hugs. I know how important physical touch is to her and so I make it a point to touch her a lot. Oh, and I handle a lot of the practical/logistical stuff for her.”
“I love to cook for him, and tell him how insanely handsome he is, especially when he’s shirtless.”
“What’s one of your favorite things about her?”
Him – “She has a sense of freedom and floats like a butterfly-”
Her – “-And stings like a bee! I like his confidence and zest for life.”
"There are plenty of us who have grown to love the vegetables we once despised. Our first memories with food aren’t the last ones, but they are lasting. The real enlightenment for the students wasn’t whether or not they liked radish. It was that all the food they ate didn’t have to come from a box or a wrapper. That’s the type of consciousness we’re hoping to instill with Whetstone. We don’t want to force our politics or preferences about food, we just want to present a more truthful account of the communities and cultures that have fed us over the centuries. It’s as absent from mainstream food media as fresh food is from the diets of those students."
(3/4)
“I started off doing street hypnosis and people would ask me stuff like to help them quit smoking, then got into more emotional stuff, then past lives. At the end of the day, it’s about making people feel good.”
“Where can I can connect with you and your work?”
“I have a YouTube channel: David Lion. Instagram is where I’m most constant and that is @Lionism.” (2/3)
“I moved here from India a year ago.”
“What’s your dream for your life here?”
“Making it big here, starting my own start up with friends in the technology sector. We don’t know what we want to do yet but I think to make it you need a good team rather than a good idea.”
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Shot this at my first fashion shoot at a workshop on basics of portrait and fashion photography conducted by The Fountainhead Initiative (www.facebook.com/FountainheadInitiative/) with Pritham D'Souza (instagram.com/themetalfarmer).
Model: Venus Malik (instagram.com/vm.venus.malik/)
MUA: Surabhi Manoj (instagram.com/surabhimanoj)
I met a lot of different and interesting people during my time in University but Paul made one of the deeper impressions on me. As first years I know a lot of us had a bit of awkwardness about being in a new place with new people but Paul’s seemed to outweigh anyone’s. I made quick friends with him despite that and had a blast in doing so. He’d always say the darndest things, sporadically leave a room, or occasionally staying there for a bit too long. While everyone was out partying and drinking he did his best to advocate a smarter choice in staying sober and keeping up with his studies though that didn’t keep him from coming out and having some dry fun. I really enjoyed his tagging along as he would bear the biggest grin at things I thought commonplace.
After University the next time I saw him was out of the blue. I had made an event for a party and invited everyone I could. After two years absence in my life guess who showed up? I think that was the first time I saw Paul even touch a drink, let alone consider drinking it. The concern he had about his dad coming to pick him up kept some common sense in him and he managed the grin again and again throughout almost every conversation he had that night.
My favourite memory of Paul relates to his incredible talent with a cello. I went almost the full 8 months without hearing so much of a peep of music from him, only talk. One day though he finally brought his cello back to the dorm and had a small session for a bunch of our friends in my room. His ability was magnificent and over these last four years I can only imagine what else he’s achieved. I still find it curious that he kept it to himself for so long. It was even better than the initial enjoyment I got from that grin he’d make when he was finally enjoying himself and not feeling as awkward. If he was any less aware of the camera I might have been able to share that grin. Maybe next time!
“What are your goals for 2016?”
“To cut back on my hours for school so I have time to live. This past year it was just school, school, school, school, school. I had fun but there were so many things I missed out on.”
“Like what?”
“Like my little cousin had a birthday I wanted to go to, my brother had a lot of step shows I wanted to go to. And I also wanted to get a job too.”
“Is there anything you want to do for yourself for fun that doesn’t have anything to do with being responsible or supporting someone else?”
“Hmm…I guess I never really thought about that. I guess I don’t take a lot of time for myself.”
“Do you have hobbies?”
“I like to read…and ride my bike. Maybe I’ll do that more…yeah, do me some.”
(1/3)
“I’m a filmmaker. I like the writing side. I joined one of the largest screenplay contests in Japan and wrote a teenage love story. I don’t usually write love stories, but I got some ideas…”
“Was it from life experience?”
“It was from social networks services like Facebook. People care so much about the number of likes, or number of friends, everything is numbers and I became sick of it. So in the film I created a SNS called Braindrop and it’s all about numbers. Everything you do on the internet will be numbered and they’ll collect all the data and there will be a social rank. So this guy who's very concerned with numbers falls in love with this girl who doesn’t care about numbers. So through interacting they figure out that good balance between real life and internet.”
“Have you ever been in love before?”
“I have a boyfriend back in Japan. We met two years ago.”
“Is it hard to be apart?”
“It’s really hard, but we text and call each other a lot. We fight a lot. That’s a good thing because if you hold what you really want to say you’ll be so constrained…especially in a long distance relationship.”
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“What is a challenge you faced recently that you had to overcome?”
"My decision to retire out of the military. I have 4 kids and I hadn’t spent any time with them. If I decided to extend, that would mean going back to Iraq and Afghanistan. I could not guarantee my return. I put a lot of time on the field. I thought it would be easy being a military veteran to enter a career. But what I saw was a big disconnect between veterans and the private sector. I went and got an MBA and I still wasn’t good enough. At that point, I decided to start my own business and that business is going to be centered around what I was going through. Connecting veterans to better opportunities and improving our relationship with the private sector so that none of them feel like they’d be better off dead."
I was on my way to a friends house and decided to stop at a new place to get some food so I yelped vegan spots and saw a restaurant called Powerplant. My intuition said ‘that one!’ so I drove there. After I finished ordering I turned to the door and saw this woman walk in beaming. Her smile radiated warmth and I said, “You have the most beautiful smile. I feel good just seeing you happy!”
“Thanks!”
“My name is Dijon.”
“Katie. Nice to meet you. Dijon did you say?”
“Yeah, like the mustard.”
“Love Dijon mustard.”
“Yeah, it’s not too spicy, not too plain.”
“Yeah, it’s very flavorful. And kinda has a little grit to it.”
“I feel like I’m integrating the grit. The light and dark aspects.”
“That’s nice. I like that metaphor.”
“It could be a projection, but your smile seems like it comes from a deep place of joy and I’m curious as to how you actualized that joy. It seems like that comes from a deep level of self-awareness.”
“Yeah…well, I definitely don’t feel that way all the time. But I’ve been through a lot in the past couple years. I went to grad school right after both my parents passed away. I guess I just really savor the moments that are good because that’s all you have. So I try to keep myself in that mindset. And when I walked in…I don’t know, sometimes I think it’s easier to be in that space when you walk into a room full of strangers because it’s full of possibilities. Anything could happen, you could meet anyone, and that openness brings out that deep joy…for me.”
“Yeah, I also feel like I’ve been going through a lot. It seems like that kinda time for everyone.”
“Definitely.”
“And a lot of my instinct was to go inward, and that’s been healing, but I’ve been getting reflections that it’s time to go out. To show up for life every day and go out to explore.”
“That’s beautiful. That’s all you can do right?” (1/2)
Took my brother out for some portraits a little bit ago. He was my first sitter in my "year of portraits".
“Me and most of my friends are these type of beings and we’ve been here 13,000 years doing this work. Now I feel like it’s time to complete this work. So I went deeper into the desert and I ended up encountering a physical being from another planet that I knew was not human. She had a very different bone structure in her face. It was my first contact experience. Then I had an experience where I astrally traveled and met Ambassadors from species from all over the galaxy, 73 of them. I began at that point to experience my life as a process that is not devoid of a larger picture. I began to realize my life, and purpose, and experience as a being is inextricably interwoven with a larger process that’s going on with beings all over the universe, in this galaxy in particular. These beings were not just different, hyper-dimensional-whatever. We’re not talking about 9th dimensional beings on a higher frequency level that are not physical. We’re talking about beings that have integrated higher levels of awareness of space and time and consciousness and spirit…and are also physical. And they can travel and project their consciousness with their astral bodies as proficiently as any master yogi. They can project to other planets, they can also pilot starships that leverage that technology to travel between star systems, meet with other beings, share tea, and take a poop if they need to. Let me just say this to people who have had information coming in about 5th dimensional beings, 6th dimensional beings, 7th dimensional beings, all these beings that are physical and non physical, usually talking about non physical beings. Let me be really clear, there are an infinite number of realms. There are many kinds of astral and spiritual beings in existence, there are many planes of existence, there are many realms in which consciousness lives and explores. There is also physical planets around physical stars all over this galaxy and every galaxy. There are being that evolved that chewed their finger nails, that picked their ears and noses, that used the restroom, that have learned to build starships, that have sex, that travel the universe. So don’t look out into the stars and say ‘I wonder what will happen when I’m a multi dimensional higher level being” because you already are one. You always have been. You are a multi dimensional being. You have consciousness on a spiritual level, on an astral level, you can go to the celestial heavens and still be sitting in your car. That is a part of the capacity of what it means to be alive. There is no ascension you have to get to. If we’re going to ascend at all, it’s going to be in perspective. We’re going to see that there are cultures that are so far beyond anything we've ever conceived, that it may look like science fiction but…so did the internet. It's all science fiction, until it's science fact.”
(6/8)
Him - “I knew of her before I knew her. I saw her and I was like, ‘WHO IS THAT?!?’ but I had a girlfriend-“
Her - “and I’m not into that, but we met again at a garage sale fundraiser and we just hit it off.”
Him - “I felt like she just got me right away…so there was this dance coming up and she invited me-”
Her - “But I wanted to get to know him first so I asked him on a date, and we went on a walk, which ended up being 3 and a half miles around a lake and it was non stop chatter. We’ve been together ever since. Dating him has been the most raw, organic, pure experience I’ve ever been a part of. I went into it thinking ‘this is just gonna be fun’ but then it was like…‘Oh shit, this is gonna be real’!”
"As a senior in Eastern Illinois University in 2011, as an education psych major, I had just finished up my last year of football at the collegiate level, I took a job at a group home. Within 30 days of working there, a coworker beat up a client in the home. From that altercation the man died 4 days later. Because I was at work, the law of accountability states that if you don’t physically stop someone, or call the police, or run away you’re held accountable for that person’s actions. I did stop the situation with verbal diffusion, but that allowed the criminal justice system to sit me down for 6 months in jail for a crime I didn’t do. Then they released me on bond with an ankle monitor which I paid $12/day for 16 weeks to be free. Ultimately I was sent to prison for 7 more months. That was the last of several situations that had been traumatic and since there was no escaping, it forced me to learn how to go through it. And not just go through it but grow through it.”
“Worst case scenario you do end up with life in prison. I’m sitting in jail, 22, 10 months from graduation, soon to become a teacher, now I’m in jail facing 120 years in prison. I made up in my mind I was going home. I told myself I was okay with it being gone 10 years. And whenever I did go home, I was going to be a different human being, I was going to be on a different path. It’s been 6 years since then and I’ve created my own business, I’ve traveled the world, my passport is stamped up! I’m really growing and learning. The beauty is that now I’m not in a place where I’m reaching for external happiness. I’m just enjoying heaven now. Really taking this freedom in. Even though I’ve been free for 6 years the after effects, the trauma, is always there. I have to feel the fear that if I slip up, I’m going back, but the happy medium is now. So now I’m focused on dictating the process. That’s what I’ve learned, you don’t control the outcome but you can control the process. If you can control the day to day process of your life, you’re in heaven. You’ve relinquished power to the universe and therefore the universe is going to multiply and attract everything you need so that you’re the most empowered individual.”
“Thank you.”
“No sweat dog, thank you.”
From the Hive leadership program (2/2)
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