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Life is NOT a Beach…but relax

30 Wednesday Apr 2014

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Beach, Graffiti, Happy Hump Day!, Hump Day, Life, life is a beach, Miami, Photography, Pictures, Poetic, Quotes, Urban Art

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Life is not a beach. It is more like dirty pavement. It is hard and sometimes it gets messy but, if you take a moment to stop and look around it can still be almost as beautiful as any beach.

Posted by Alma Thadeau | Filed under My Pictures, My Writings, Quotes

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold

05 Saturday Apr 2014

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Amateur Photography, Claustrophobia, Marcus Aurelius, My Pictures, Photography, Prompts and Challenges, San Francisco, Stockton Street Tunnel, Threshold, Tunnel, Tunnel Phobia, Tunnel Top

At the threshold of the Stockton Street Tunnel while on the threshold of facing a fear of tunnels.

“If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.” – Marcus Aurelius

Claustrophobia: The irrational fear of being shut in; fear of enclosed spaces, such as tunnels and elevators.

Stockton Street Tunnel

Definition from the Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003

Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold

 

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Beauty Lies in the Eyes of Another’s Dreams

04 Friday Apr 2014

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Art, Beauty, Blue Nude, Dream, Nostalgia, Painting, Picasso, Song Lyrics, Sonic Youth

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“Beauty lies in the eyes of another’s dreams.” – Sonic Youth

I scribbled this quote down from a Sonic Youth song in my journal sometime back in 1995-1996. I realize now the whole song is quite beautiful and elicits a sense of nostalgia worth sharing. The song is haunting. You can check it out here.

There’s something in the air here
Makes you go insane
Brings you back to me
It’s been so long
All that I have to do
Is live along
It’s coming coming down
Over me
Do you want to see
The explosions in my eye
Do you want to see
The reflection of
How we used to be
Beauty lies
In the eyes of another’s dreams
Beauty lies
Lost in another’s dream
It’s coming coming down
Over me
Do you want to see
The explosions in my eye
Do you want to see
The reflection of
How it used to be

Hey baby
Hey sweetheart
Hey fox come here
Hey beautiful
Come here sugar

-Lyrics by Sonic Youth

-Painting a rendition of Picasso’s Blue Nude. (My second attempt at painting…well third if you count one I did as a kid.)

 

Walk the Line

25 Tuesday Mar 2014

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Hate, Love, Quotes

“Draw a circle around love and hate will walk the line.” – Anonymous

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Tyson y Chanel, By: AT

Linear Action

19 Wednesday Mar 2014

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Bay Bridge, My Pictures, Photography, Photos, San Francisco, Thoreau

“What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.” – Henry David Thoreau

San Francisco

San Francisco, By: AT

 

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¿¡Look Down!?

11 Tuesday Mar 2014

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Broadway, My Pictures, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Photography, Quotes, San Francisco

Broadway - San Francisco

Broadway, By: AT

“Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.”  – Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Organized Chaos

08 Saturday Mar 2014

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Deepak Chopra, New York City, NYC, Quotes, Times Square

Times Square

Times Square, By: AT

“In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.” – Deepak Chopra

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Mocking Birds

05 Wednesday Mar 2014

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Birds, My Pictures, Photography, Quotes, San Francisco, Urban Art

Mocking Birds

Picture of Language of the Birds in San Francisco, By: AT

“I would rather spend my life close to the birds than waste it wishing I had wings.” – House M.D.

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