In the series Friday Night Lights first season, episode 12, Smash has fallen for a new girl. She likes him too, but is playing a little hard to get. This is difficult for him, as he is used to being pursued. She finally comes over, ready to pour attention on him at the state fair.
“Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.” — Henri Frederic Amiel
While testing the big bag of white power he had just found in my carry-on. “Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.” — Marlene Dietrich Luckily, I get to do my fair share of traveling, always carrying various gear and electronics in my carry on bags. Checking expensive gear is not my idea of fun, so I don’t, unless it is unavoidable. I’ve learned much over the years about what to carry and what not to, but this last trip I was carrying something new. Most times, they don’t check me so when they pulled my bag I wondered what was in question. I was in TSA Pre and did not have to take off my shoes or follow some of the other normal criteria, it was unexpected. He said, “I hope you don’t mind, I just have to test a little bit” as he pulled the plastic bag full of white powder out of my case pouring it onto the counter. Christopher Boswell Image When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people. —- Abraham Joshua Heschel “Ahh” I blurted “I stuffed that in last minute without really thinking” I decided to be quiet but could hardly stand it, my mouth started moving again, “How’s the money holding out?” He replies “Oh, you mean the pay and the government shutdown” “Yes” I said. “I get it, my employer is changing our payroll system, worrying everyone” Him, “Oh, I’m holding up, some of the others are notContinue Reading
“It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook Water is a transparent, tasteless, odorless, and nearly colorless chemical substance, which is the main constituent of Earth’s streams, lakes, and oceans, and the fluids of most living organisms. It is vital for all known forms of life, even though it provides no calories or organic nutrients. From Wikipedia. While you try and wrap your ahead around that paragraph, think of this, It’s all the same water! It all drops from the sky making it’s way off the highest peaks through the mightiest rivers back to the sea, where the cycle starts again. During all this movement it turns salty filling with sodium chloride appropriate for sustaining a large fish population in the ocean. By the time it makes way back to us for use it’s safe to drink, purified once again. Am I the only one that thinks this is an amazing miracle? Christopher Boswell Image “In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.” ― Kahlil Gibran Jr. Ilike some of the work Masaru Emoto has compiled before his death. In 2011 he released another volume in his water series called The Miracle of Water. In it, he makes some strong claims that have been much disputed. Image from the Neurologica Blog Yet, I made an immediate strong connection to his work, he photographed thousands of waterContinue Reading
How do we know what looks good in a picture or design and why? No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition. — Claude Monet The Rule of Thirds. It is interesting and curious, how did we evolve into deciding what we like to look at? Color, form, lines, contrast, shape and intensity are some of the variables involved. Can you talk about what it is you like about the way a view of something appears to you? It can be on the internet, with text and images arranged just so. Or, on the TV program you have going in the background right now. It’s defined on the art you chose to hang on your walls and maybe most importantly on the faces of those you love most. Today, there only two established rules I desire to talk about. The Rule of Thirds and the Golden Mean or Ratio. Read more on Medium https://medium.com/publishous/composition-the-rule-of-thirds-and-the-golden-ratio-d587da486d26
People are the fruit of the Earth, so much like an Apple is to a Tree. “A tree Apples and the Earth Peoples: — Alan Watts People are the fruit of the Earth, so much like an apple is to a tree. The tree takes it’s time growing up and finally bears fruit. The apple grows and matures but has little say in the matter and only two possibilities for it’s future exist. Maybe, they are even the same in a way, It could be a crab apple, a bit sour, left on the branch until over ripened then falling to the ground. It is returned to the Earth nurturing her, providing nutrients to the soil. Or, maybe it’s a red delicious apple, sweet and juicy. Birds pick at it, insects live in it, or it is harvested and sent to the grocery store. It is being given to you, the apple, or to life to be enjoyed. It’s purpose is simply to help sustain other forms of life. It is life at the height of beauty and working perfection. In effect, either scenario is the same. It nurtures either way and even looks beautiful in the process, yet the apple has no choice. The best outcome is for life to benefit from it, other life. People are really the same, yet I believe unlike the apple, we have a choice. You can sit alone being sour like a crab apple, eventually getting returned to the earth in a box nurturing worms.Continue Reading
