Monday, January 31, 2005

Red Series No. 4

Las Vegas, Nevada

This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now.
And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
Alan Watts

Santa Barbara Mission Roses

Santa Barbara, California

One cannot but be in awe when one contemplates the mysteries of
eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough
if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.
Never lose a holy curiosity.
Albert Einstein

Paris

Las Vegas, Nevada

Rockefeller Center

Las Vegas, Nevada

Friday, January 21, 2005

Santa Barbara Mission Roses

Santa Barbara, California


The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow. I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment.
Rabindranath Tagore

Colorado River

Laughlin, Nevada


From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other. So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A Study in Scarlet.

Radio City Music Hall

New York City, New York


“What is the answer?” she asked, and when no answer came she laughed and said: “Then, what is the question?”
Gertrude Stein, last words, according to Elizabeth Sprigge, Gertrude Stein, Her Life and Work, p. 265 (1957).