mosaic-y ripple

uber cool

original with a splash of color

hmm, now I want gushers

experimentations with color

wicked rainbowtastic= my fav

DUCK <<

>>DUCK




GOOSE !

.. I need a goose

Don't Underestimate the Importance of Your Knowledge

I was reading through some articles today and that statement really caught my attention.
We all are filled with knowledge that many others don't have and we don't realize it. But it makes sense though, because once something seems so familiar to us and a part of our life, it becomes our reality. Our actions that once took steps to master, have become our habits.
My habits as a student and news reporter are a lot different than a professional athlete.. or a musician...doctor, etc.

value your unique knowledge. this needle-thin thread path of life, taken only directly by you.
well, unless you got possessed by some demon along the way or something ahah

ah lame humor is so dumb and my fav.

Too often we underestimate what we know, always striving for more and more. Yet how often do little kids have the best answers to the most complex questions.

Throughout school, learning for me has never been mostly from the textbook. It's everything else. The textbook stuff is only a fraction of the lessons we're here to learn.

Life is a classroom. yYour friends/family.. the people you surround yourself with are your teachers as well as your classmates. It's an interplay of relationships, roles. Constantly changing, evolving.

And as for writing this right now, I feel it's all information everyone already knows, so why write?
Like Mark Twain once said, if you're life's worth living, it's worth writing down too.

I made myself grilled cheese with tomato soup a little while ago, and laughed while eating it thinking
"my elementary knowledge of cooking is reflective of my knowledge of life: so naive"
mostly joking with myself though

it led me to think about areas in my life where I am very knowledgeable.

It's interesting.. how everything we need really is right in front of us.
all the people, the resources, everything.

the only thing holding us back is ourselves.

What I've learned most from life is that is all about connections. with one another.

Everyone always knows someone else. Everyone holds a key of knowledge to open a door inside yourself you keep locked.

I can't even recount how often a simple stranger has affected my life seemingly moreso than the people I see almost everyday. That one little compliment.. making a quick simple joke.. exchanging short muses of interest.. etc. so much.


Life isn't a bout establishing an identity, or about finding out who you are. cause once you do (or at least THINK you do),
once you seemingly finally set in stone something you hold to be true, it'll change.

Life's a dance
between balance and chaos.

Once everything seems perfectly balanced,
still as a windless-day
All it takes is that gust of wind
to merge the flow
of silence and sound.

filing cabinet

Our minds are like filing cabinets
storing away the memories
making connections with the past

Cabinets with drawers labeled:
Happiness
Sadness
Love
Hate

etc.

And inside these drawers, there are folders -
Each gathering more and more memories like stacks of paper piled away
day by day



When we reach back into the cabinets,
we often take the most recent folder
thinking that's the ultimate source of our happiness
or our sadness.
or whatever it may be that we're focusing on.

You may not be consciously aware of it, but something in your present reality is strongly linked to a moment in the past
That's why listening to music from an earlier stage of your life can elicit such strong emotions

-~-

A friend of mine brokeup with her boyfriend the other day and it made me reflect upon my past..
think about the breakups I've been through
and in the moment you think the other person is the source of your sadness but they're really not.

They're just bringing out what's already inside you

I realized this before,
after one of my breakups..
and could think back to a time when I was very young before being attracted to anyone,
and I could vividly remember myself just being so hurt and sad
for no reason other than just the fact I felt sad

I had no person to place my sadness upon
no file from my cabinet to reach back and explain why I was upset.

This innate loneliness and sadness we experience is all the way in the back of our cabinet
with the accumulation of events over the course of our life sequentially in the front

We may attach people to this concept of "love"
put them in the front of our filing cabinets
with a huge folder marked with hearts

and once we think they hurt us,
we take all their papers in the happiness folder
and may move it to sadness
then we're left with that empty folder of happiness to fill



just a lesson on attachment
sometimes unhealthy when becomes obsessive in negative ways--
in which our mind loves to do

We all have happiness, sadness, trust, betrayal, all within ourselves because this is what we do to ourselves.
everyday.

Once the most recent memory in our filing cabinet is moved from happiness to sadness,
we have to rebuild what our conscious concept of happiness is,
or retreat back to memories from the past that filled us with joy,
thus not fully living in the moment



That is why it is so important to have this unchanging center.
the silent pause
amidst all the chaotic ruckus.

:)

wedding shoot !

wee, wedding pictures by Lindsay Adler .... :)
so much fun


http://lindsayadlerphotography.com/blog/?p=565

merge

just a phase. really intrigued by the mirror-ness

siamese

this is me not doing homework :-)

confluence

experimentations with weird lighting and flutterfly hairclip !