“One loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one’s dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.” W.B. Yeats
Old and Gray
Tag: Black and White
Daydream Believer
“Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.” Buddha
Train in the Three Difficulties
The three difficulties: “The first is seeing neurosis as neurosis, and the second is being willing to do something different. The third difficulty is the aspiration to make this a way of life.” Pema Chodron
Ask yourself if you really want to stand in a corn field on a 90° day, waiting. Second, try your best not to get run over by the train. Third, if you blow the highlights on the headlight pretend you meant to do that and lie like a dog. 🐶
Gray Areas
“Black and white images take you beyond what most people photograph.” Rob Sheppard
The Look
“He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.” P.G. Wodehouse
Power to the People
“People have the power to redeem the work of fools.” Patti Smith
Bullseye
“If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.” W.C. Fields
Wheat Field
“I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.” Vincent van Gogh
When Pigs Fly
“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.” J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
Simple Minds
“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.” Charles Bukowski
