According to Wikipedia: Serendipity is the effect by which one accidentally stumbles upon something fortunate, especially while looking for something entirely unrelated.
It's derived from Serendip, the Persian name for Sri Lanka. The Persian word itself has been derived from Sanskrit name for Sri Lanka viz. Swarnadweep (Swarna meaning golden and Dweep meaning island)
The word has been translated into many languages (French sérendipicité or sérendipité but also heureux hasard, "fortunate chance"; Italian serendipità; Dutch serendipiteit; German Serendipität; Swedish, Danish and Norwegian serendipitet; Romanian serendipitate; and Spanish serendipia).
Now, let's put aside the definition and etymology of the word. The moment you realise what you've found, eventhough you weren't looking for it... isn't it just fucking fantastic?!
16 March 2010
Serendipity
05 March 2010
Tears
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief... and unspeakable love.”
~ Washington Irving
25 December 2009
Newton and Avedon
Any photographer who says he’s not a voyeur is either stupid or a liar. ~ Helmut Newton
A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion …. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. ~ Richard Avedon
18 December 2009
Everything Else is Secondary
"Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Speech, 2005 (via: O'Bedlam).
16 November 2009
Some Wit and Wisdom
Some funny quotes, one liners and snippets from those dreaded forwarded emails.
It's 11PM, do you know where your pants are?
Whatever it is -- I didn't do it!
If there is a "WILL", there are 500 relatives.
Note - The key to a good relationship is the key. Give me back the key.
In God we trust; all others must pay cash.
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates
Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.
I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers.
All generalizations are false, including this one.
There is a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
Guys: No Shirt, No Service - Gals: No Shirt, No Charge
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. - Albert Einstein
He who laughs last didn't get it.
After ten years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said, "No hablo ingles."
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. Lily Tomlin
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. A. Whitney Brown
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. It's just that yours is stupid.
What do you mean, my birth certificate expired?
How Many Roads Must A Man Walk Down Before He Admits He's lost?
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Everyone needs to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer.
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.
Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers. - Homer Simpson
You laugh because I'm different...........
I laugh cause I just farted!
What are the three words guaranteed to humiliate men everywhere?
'Hold my purse.'
Men are like bank accounts.
Without a lot of money they don't generate a lot of interest.
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.
The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on. - Robert Bloch
Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.
There are no stupid questions, just stupid people.
Girls are like phones. We love to be held, talked too but if you press the wrong button you'll be disconnected!
What's the point of going out? We're just going to wind up back here anyway. - Homer
I saw weird stuff in that place last night. Weird, strange, sick, twisted, eerie, godless, evil stuff... and I want in. - Homer
Failure is not an option -- it comes bundled with Windows.
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Sexy Unix Commands: date; unzip; touch; strip; finger; mount; gasp; yes; uptime;
Press any key except... no, No, NO, NOT THAT ONE!
It may be that your whole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them.
William Clayton
All extremists should be taken out and shot.
The greatest lies of all time:
I love you
This won't hurt a bit
The cheque's in the mail
I was just going to call you
I swear I won't come in your mouth
Of course I'll respect you in the morning
We have a really challenging assignment for you
I'm from the government, and I'm here to help you
The light at the end of the tunnel is the headlamp of an oncoming train.
Be creative, invent a perversion.
Reality is an illusion caused by lack of alcohol.
Never hit a man with glasses. Hit him with a baseball bat.
Monday is a hard way to spend one-seventh of your life.
KARAOKE: A Japanese word meaning tone deaf.
HEALTH: The slowest possible rate of dying.
FOOT: A device for finding furniture in the dark.
SLEEP: That fleeting moment just before the alarm goes off.
SUSHI: Known to the rest of the world as 'Bait'.
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie!" ...until you can find a rock.
What has four legs and an arm? A happy pitbull.
I'd insult you, but you're not bright enough to notice.
We are the people our parents warned us about.
Why does free love cost so much?
If it moves, fondle it.
"If I'm sleeping and you want to wake me, don't shake me just take me!"
Just because you're not paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.
I think I could fall madly in bed with you.
If you can't dazzle 'em with brilliance, baffle 'em with bullshit.
Here I sit broken-hearted,
tried to shit but only farted
22 June 2009
Some More Life Tips
Back in December I wrote a post called Some Life Tips. I've found some more:
1. If you’re smiling right now, you’re doing something right.
2. It’s not so much what you say that counts, it’s how you make people feel.
3. The biggest mistake you can make is doing nothing because you’re scared to make a mistake.
4. No matter how it turns out, it always ends up just the way it should be. Either you succeed or you learn something. Win-Win.
5. Freedom is the greatest gift. Self-sufficiency is the greatest freedom.
6. If you catch yourself working hard and loving every minute of it, don’t stop. You’re on to something big. Because hard work ain’t hard when you concentrate on your passions.
7. It’s not about getting a chance, it’s about taking a chance. You’ll rarely be 100% sure it will work. But you can always be 100% sure doing nothing won’t work. Sometimes you just have to go for it!
8. Complaining is like slapping yourself for slapping yourself. It doesn’t solve the problem, it just hurts you more.
9. The one with nothing to hide is always the one left standing tall.
10. You can press forward long after you can’t. It’s just a matter of wanting it bad enough.
11. There’s a big difference between knowing and doing. Knowledge is basically useless without action.
12. In work and business, when they need you more than you need them, you have succeeded.
13. Everything that happens in life is neither good nor bad. It just depends on your perspective.
14. We are all weird. And life is weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we call it love.
15. True friendship and true love do sustain the tests of distance and time.
16. You can’t change who you are. You can only change what you know and how you apply this knowledge.
17. It is okay to be angry. It is never okay to be cruel.
18. Even when you feel like you have nothing, someone else likely has far less. Find them and help them. You’ll see why.
19. Having a thousand credentials on the wall will not make you a decent human being. But genuinely helping one person everyday will.
20. Remember, change happens for a reason. Roll with it. It won’t be easy, but it will be worth it.
21 May 2009
Being Present and the Life Poetic
This is an excerpt from a fantastic piece found on Scott Kelby's Photoshop Insider blog. It was written by Vincent Versace. Links to both are at the bottom of this post.
The Tao of Paying Attention. The Poetry of Being Present.
Complicated equipment and light reflectors and various other items of hardware are enough, to my mind, to prevent the birdie from ever coming out.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
What is the shape of a name?
We are the landscape of all we have seen.
— Isamu Noguchi
Creating an image is like writing your name in water. The act of writing is there but simply cannot be seen. Only the water is seen and the ripples felt. A photograph is such a thing, the ripple of how the photographer was moved moves the viewer in the same way, as if he and not the viewer was there when the image was captured. Photography should not be about simply taking photographs; it should be about simply being taken by them. It is about allowing yourself to be consumed so completely and totally that the decisive moment pulls you through the lens and the image is captured along the way. From head to toe, mind, body, and spirit—everything that is you must be engaged, all creative cylinders firing at once and as one. Or, as it is referred to in Japanese Zen Buddhism, being in a state of Shibumi: the act of thoughtful thoughtless thought. Doing the right thing in the moment without consciously thinking about the doing the right thing. It is a state of grace.
It is in this state of grace that photography becomes not about merely looking but about seeing, because to just look is simply a visual experience, while seeing, on the other hand, is a creative process. Seeing is believing, and not, as we have been told, the other way around.
The question is, “How do we make the leap from looking to seeing and from taking to being taken by our pictures?” The answer exists at this very moment within us; it is as much a part of us as breathing. We need to approach the way we learn the same way we live—poetically and not rhetorically.
Play a game with me for a moment. I want you to say out loud, to no one in particular, “Hi, my name is ____,” saying your full name, and then pause for a moment. Now after you’ve done that, this time, again out loud say, “Hi, my name is Izzy Smith.” Unless your name is Izzy Smith, you should observe a difference in the way those two statements feel. The former statement most likely felt “right” while the latter felt empty.
The difference is that the former statement—your name—is inhabited, and the latter statement—a made-up name—is just some words, verbs and nouns with no meaning to you whatsoever. Your name is your personal icon, the icon of everything you have experienced up to that moment. Another way to look at it is that your name has a shape and when you say it, it contains everything you have ever said and done. The shape of your name reflects the landscape of all of your experiences and all you have seen and felt, every lesson of your life expressed whenever you utter it.
We live life in a total or global way. Our lives are not determined by what happens but by how we react to what happens. We are not defined by what life brings to us, but rather by the attitude we bring to life. If we have a positive attitude, that positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, positive events, and positive outcomes. It is a catalyst, a spark that creates extraordinary results. The images we create are a reflection of how we live our lives.
We experience life poetically, not rhetorically. Poetry is the language of heightened emotion, poetry is the form of expression we use when conversational language cannot even begin to contain what we feel. Poetry is representational in its symbolism, where few words can mean an immense thing. Whereas when we express things rhetorically, the words and symbolism we choose become presentational; we use many words to describe a single thought or thing. A poetic approach is expansive, dynamic, and felt within us, while the rhetorical approach is constrictive, static, cramped and, at best, a literary event.
But life is not a literary event. It is dynamic and not static. It is not made up of series of events that occurred in a linear manner that add up to what we are. Life is all about the way in which the experiences interact with each other in a nonlinear way, and that interaction causes the poem that is who we are. Just like a beach is made up of grains of sand, every experience we have is a grain that makes up the beach of our lives. They interact and move and shift, changing the landscape of who we are.
A Grain of Sand Is Not Made Up of a Beach
A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?
— Ernst Haas
A picture speaks a thousand words.
If the above statement is true, something I have come to personally believe to be self-evident in its truth, I would suggest, then, that a photograph is a visual poem. The greatest of which are ones that move us the way the photographer was moved when he clicked the shutter. So if we operate under this premise, I would argue that we should approach our formalized learning of photography in the same manner we approach life—poetically instead of rhetorically. More specifically, I am talking about the way we approach learning how to express our creativity within the images we create.
F.A. Porsche said, “If you analyze the function of an object, its form often becomes obvious. Form follows function.” The word photography literally means “to write with light,” and the function of the object of photography, the photographic image, that which we have written with light, is to emotionally move the viewer of the image being looked at. If this is the function of photography, then the form of photography must be a poetic one. Therefore, if form follows function and the function of photography is to create visual poems, then the images we create are a reflection of how we live our lives. It is therefore incumbent upon us to learn how to express ourselves poetically visually. The problem, however, is that traditionally when we are taught about creativity in photography we are taught in a rhetorical, or granular, manner and not in a poetic, or global, manner.
Basically, there are two ways to approach learning: granularly and globally. I’m not talking about the learning of the lessons of life, which we call “experience” or, as the Reverend Knight put it, “Experience—the thing you get 10 seconds after you needed it.” Those lessons are by their very nature total, or global, events. What I am discussing is specifically the way we “school” ourselves when we want to learn how to do something.
When it comes to this type of learning, the way we are traditionally taught is in the rhetorical or granular way, i.e., “Do these steps this way and you will get this result when doing this thing this way.” Lots of words used for the explanation of a small grain of knowledge.
The problem inherent with this approach to both learning and teaching is when we learn in a granular way, what we learn tends to stay attached to the experience we had when we learned it. The knowledge we gained rarely travels into other things; it is confined to the doing of things exactly like or very similar to the first time we learned it. If we are not careful when we learn this way, what will happen is things that are simply technique become revered as if they are an art form unto themselves. Also, the images that are created by following this path tend to be derivative, repetitive, and not at all innovative.
What further occurs after we put ourselves through this type of learning is that we hit the glass ceiling and gilded cage of photography—the perfection of technique to the point were we can always take and create pretty pictures, technically excellent but somewhat sterile in their beauty. We find ourselves doing the same things over and over again, expecting the result to change. We become frustrated with our work and ourselves, we are tourists within our own creativity, defined by a set of arbitrary rules that tell us all about how a thing should look. We don’t create the images that we are capable of creating because the rules that define us say we shouldn’t.
Don’t get me wrong, in the beginning we need to learn things in grains of thought, but from the outset of our journey we need to be open to something more. It is being open and receptive to that something more from the beginning of our granular learning experience that will show us how we break through the glass ceiling of creative stagnation. It is this beginning openness that is the pathway to connecting more deeply with the world—both within and without—and allow that connection to be held like an expectant breath within our images.
A Beach Is Made Up of Grains of Sand
Every thing you need to know you will know, when you need to know it if you choose to simply be present at the time you first experience it.
— Tad Z. Danieleweski
Let’s approach the poetics of learning to create another way. In fractal geometry there is concept called chaos theory. Very simply put, chaos theory posits that there is order and great beauty in what looks to be total chaos; if we look closely enough at the randomness around us, patterns will start to emerge.
So rather than trying to fit all the things we learn into a neat set of ordered dogma, why not allow them simply to be just what they are, a fact that is what it is, nothing more and nothing less? The best way I know to accomplish this is to choose to simply be present at the time you learn or discover something new.
So what does being present mean? It means that you simply choose to show up with no preconceptions and you allow yourself to be open to the experience of what you learn when you learn. It means that you choose to operate with the assumption that even though you realize that what you have learned has specific significance to the lesson at hand, it may have the same or greater significance to things you have yet to experience. It means approaching learning as if it’s a giant cloud of knowledge or an infinitely expansive beach of ideas in which things are always in flow.
A beach is made up of grains of sand; a grain of sand is not a beach. When we learn things, they are grains of thought—pieces of knowledge—that if kept within the confines of where and when we learned them, we would do little with them. If, however, we allow them to pile up and interact with each other, we will come to a greater, more global way of seeing. If we allow the things that we learn to simply be—to exist in our minds without being anchored to one way of doing them—they can interact, collide, and perhaps create something bigger. If you allow yourself this level of presence, that being to simply show up, what will start to occur is that everything you need to know you will come to know when you need to know it. Because out of the apparent randomness, the patterns of knowledge will form as the need for them arises.
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Confucius said, “It is from the grain of sand a pearl comes.” It is from a grain of knowledge the pearl of wisdom comes. But that pearl is created by the friction of colliding with other grains of thought, which cause the many layers that surround that grain that ultimately becomes the pearl. One thought leads to an experience that, over time, causes many thoughts that ultimately becomes a way of doing things.
There is a revolution in photography happening. We are witnessing it now; the digital image for the first time allows anyone onto the pathway to creative greatness. A place where impossible is merely an opinion, an opinion that is held not by the viewer of the image but by the creator of that image. Which means that personal imagination is then the only limitation. It is important to not merely focus on technique for technique’s sake, but to discover what it means to see rather than merely look. It is in that direction that you will come full circle and find the voice within you that yearns to be heard and needs to be heard. Once you discover that technique is merely a detail—a consideration, nothing more—then in that moment the voice within you, the visual poet who fell in love with photography, will be free to create images that will change the world of those who view them.
Become a beach that is made not just of grains of knowledge but of ever-changing pearls of wisdom. Create images where what you felt is written in the water of the poetic moment and the viewer of the images is forever taken by your image as you were.
I invite you to give yourself permission to become that photographer. We are all waiting to believe with you in what you see.
Written by: Vincent Versace. The full article can be found on: Scott Kelby's Photoshop Insider blog.
01 May 2009
When a group of people is thrown...
When a group of people is thrown into a limited space (let's say someone's living room) for a limited period of time (let's imagine a dinner party), there will be many ways for individuals to hide their true personalities behind veils of pleasantries and niceties. This makes getting to know people a little difficult.
However, If you really want to get to know someone within a short time span, without all the camouflage... go on a trip. Go on a road trip to a shared holiday house where everyone is going to have to share everything for at least 2 nights (3 is better).
While you're there, let the "happy juice" flow just to the extent that inhibitions are relaxed (everything in moderation, right?). Then, by the second night or third day, once the initial guards have been lowered and everyone has seen the others in the pale morning light, the real characters begin to peak their head through the fog.
Guilt
Guilt is a powerful motivator, even if it does come with a side of resentment.
-----------------------------------------------23 April 2009
If I Had Six Hours
“If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first hour sharpening the ax.”
~ Abraham Lincoln
08 April 2009
When You Least Expect It
I've always heard, from every man and his dog, the old sayings that go something along the lines of:
- As soon as you stop looking for it, it will find you.
- When you least expect it, it will hit you.
- It will always be in the last place you expected to find it.
- When the time is right it will appear in front of you.
- Blah, blah, blah...
Heck I'm even guilty of dishing it out to others at times. As skeptical as I might have been of my own dished out advice, I'm beginning to get the feeling that there might be some truth in them there sayings.
03 March 2009
Nostalgia
I have come to realize that there are two schools of thought on the subject of nostalgia. Those that are not nostalgic and those that are to a fault.
Two conclusions have come about from this realization. The non-nostalgic tend to live less cluttered, more relaxed lives and rarely think of the past in a romantic way or cling to memories with fondness. Those that are nostalgic to a fault however, tend to be more emotional, have clutter around them that remind them of moments in their past, and tend to be more romantic in the way they see and interact with their surroundings.
From these two conclusions it might seem that being a non-nostalgic individual might mean a less stressful existence, but does it really? Which one are you?
According to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Nostalgia: Nos.tal.gia
Pronunciation: \nä-ˈstal-jə, nə-
— nos·tal·gic \-jik\ adjective or noun
— nos·tal·gi·cal·ly \-ji-k(ə-)lē\ adverb
— nos·tal·gist \-jist\ noun
Function: noun
Etymology: New Latin, from Greek nostos return home + New Latin -algia; akin to Greek neisthai to return, Old English genesan to survive, Sanskrit nasate he approaches
Date: 1729
1: the state of being homesick : homesickness
2: a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition ; also : something that evokes nostalgia.
22 January 2009
Artsy Wisdom
"Photography is about savoring life at 1/100th of a second."
Marc Riboud
The question: "How can I take more intersting photographs?"
The answer: "Become a more interesting person."
Jay Maisel
"Brickwork can be done as a laborer or as an artisan."
Anne Lamott
"Ask yourself what makes you come alive and go and do that. For what the world needs, is people who have come fully alive."
Gil Baile
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
Edgar Allen Poe
"Lady, I smile with my eyes."
Ben Harper (told to a lady taking his picture and insisting for him to smile)
"All children are artists. The problem is to remain one when you grow up."
Pablo Picasso
31 December 2008
Happy New Year!
Another year has passed and the dawn of a new year is just around the corner. Sure 2008 could have been better, at times it could have been a lot better. However, as my ever optimistic aunt always says; "be positive."
I wish you all a very Happy New Year!!! I hope you have a year filled with health, happiness, love, and prosperity.
Looking back though, there are a few things that were made more clear to me. Those little nuggets I'll share, even if they do sound like cliches.
~ Be grateful for what you have.
~ If you have nothing nice to say just shut the fuck up.
~ Look after your health.
~ Time goes by faster as you get older. (no seriously, it does)
~ Argue your point twice, if the other person doesn't get it, don't waist your breath.
~ Entertain the fact that you might be wrong. (as unlikely as it might be)
~ There are things that depend on you and there are things that do not. Learn to
differentiate between the two.
~ Be passionate about something.
~ Smile as much as you can. Laughing is even better.
~ Don't be afraid to make a fool of yourself. It's a powerful ability.
~ Socialize and maintain close friendships. You will not realize the value of a close friendship until the day you need one and realize you have none.
~ Let others talk more while you listen.
~ Get dirty every now and then. (you can read this however you like ;-)
~ Make others laugh whenever you can.
~ Flirt as often as you can. (in a nice way though, not some sleazy way)
~ Compliment others, and be helpful.
~ Appreciate simple things more, whether it's: a moment in time, beautiful eyes, a landscape, a photograph, a really nice cup of coffee, a glance or smile from someone unexpected, nice food prepared well, softness in unexpected places, a scent, a feeling of contentment... the list is endless on this one...
~ Lastly, don't fret over the small stuff, life's too short.
That's enough for now.
Goodbye 2008... Hello 2009! All the best ~ Kourosh
19 December 2008
The Stupid and the Wise
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
~Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Personal Conduct" -----------------------------------------------
17 December 2008
The Aftereffects
I've stolen these words. Yes that's right, stolen them straight from someone else's mouth. For reasons unbeknownst to me, I can't tell you from whom or where, but I can tell you this: she takes delicious photos.
"You get to know strangers when you take their photo. You get to know yourself when you edit their photos."-----------------------------------------------
11 December 2008
Some Life Tips
1. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
2. Marry someone you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.
3. Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want.
4. When you say, 'I love you,' mean it.
5. When you say, 'I'm sorry,' look the person in the eye.
6. Be engaged at least six months before you get married.
7. Believe in love at first sight.
8. Never laugh at anyone's dreams. People who don't have dreams don't have much.
9. Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it's the only way to live life completely.
10. In disagreements, fight fairly. No name calling.
11. Don't judge people by their relatives.
12. Talk slowly but think quickly.
13. When someone asks you a question you don't want to answer, smile and ask, 'Why do you want to know?'
14. Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
15. Say 'bless you' when you hear someone sneeze.
16. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
17. Remember the three R's: Respect for self; Respect for others; and Responsibility for all your actions.
18. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
19. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
20. Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.
21. Spend some time alone.
03 December 2008
A Few Pearls
Seek elegance rather than luxury, refinement rather than fashion. Try to be worthy, not respectable. Think quietly, talk gently, and act frankly. Listen intently, and look deeply.
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Speak Softly
Over the weekend while sitting at my local cafe, I overheard a young woman sitting at the next table softly say to someone on the phone: "The door is open. If not, the key is under the mat." The words stayed with me. It was the subtle way she spoke them that seems to have struck a cord. The words were not spoken as if she was talking to a relative, contractor or delivery guy. They were spoken to someone close, someone more intimate. They were meant more as an invitation than a statement of fact.
There are phrases and words haphazardly strung together that seem to trigger a more nostalgic or emotional response than others, whether they're a line from a movie or something you were told or said. More often than not, they tend to be related to matters of love, lust or loss. Nevertheless, they have an intangible quality, precision and honesty that makes their combination so much more potent and memorable.
Whether negative or positive, if you read this and have one of those phrases or grouping of words that have stayed with you for some reason or another, please share them in the comments of this post.
27 November 2008
Thank You
There is a quote that goes like this:
"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it, is like wrapping a present and not giving it."
~ William Arthur Ward
In the spirit of Thanksgiving and this quote, I would like to say thank you and show my gratitude to my family and friends for all that they have done for me, their support, friendship and love... you know who you are... I wish you all health, happiness, the company of loved ones and prosperity.
