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seen you around

2012-02-02T18:26:00.000-08:00

Beside me

2012-01-31T14:06:00.000-08:00

no dominion

2012-01-31T00:22:00.000-08:00

And death shall have no dominion.Dead mean naked they shall be oneWith the man in the wind and the west moon;When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,They shall have stars at elbow and foot;Though they go mad they shall be sane,Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;Though lovers be lost love shall not;And death shall have no dominion.And death shall have no dominion.Under the windings of the seaThey lying long shall not die windily;Twisting on racks when sinews give way,Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break;Faith in their hands shall snap in two,And the unicorn evils run them through;Split all ends up they shan't crack;And death shall have no dominion.And death shall have no dominion.No more may gulls cry at their earsOr waves break loud on the seashores;Where blew a flower may a flower no moreLift its head to the blows of the rain;Though they be mad and dead as nails,Heads of the characters hammer through daisies;Break in the sun till the sun breaks down,And death shall have no dominion.

shadows settle

2012-01-26T18:01:00.000-08:00

could it be

2012-01-08T19:59:00.000-08:00

though life has it's moments of both love and loss, I truly believe there is beauty in both circumstances. Maybe part of seeing the beauty, even in the darker moments, has to do w/ perspective.

It's hard to believe an entire year has passed. here we are looking at the start of another one. I think as we're getting older, moments seem to pass by faster than they ever did. Looking into the beginning of a new year, I know time will only continue to move by us if we're just standing there & watching it. I hope that i can learn to see things with the right perspective. That instead of looking at the things i didn't do...or the things i don't have...i hope i can see that i already have everything i need. I also hope i can live each day fully & w/o the fear of failure.

There is so much joy in seeing the beauty each day brings. And to share those moments w/ the people you love is really the best thing about living.

"To laugh often and love much… to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one’s self… this is to have succeeded." -R.W.E.

revelator

2011-12-19T10:51:00.000-08:00

as it's happening

2011-12-16T19:06:00.000-08:00

coming home

2011-12-14T19:16:00.000-08:00

eyes as dark as egypt

2011-12-07T11:05:00.001-08:00

we have all the time in the world

2011-12-05T18:23:00.001-08:00

hey sparrow

2011-11-30T16:23:00.001-08:00

i really miss the days where there was really no agenda but to walk around and learn about how things work.

into black

2011-11-29T11:42:00.001-08:00

the truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.

give everything

2011-11-16T15:20:00.001-08:00

"give everything–the more you give to it, the more it gives back. keep chasing it, knowing you'll never quite connect the dots..."

every breath we drew

2011-11-10T10:25:00.000-08:00

freedom lies in being bold

2011-10-25T19:10:00.000-07:00

surrounded by your friends

2011-10-24T18:18:00.000-07:00

i saw doves

2011-10-21T18:42:00.000-07:00

“I saw doves and I thought they were rocks, but they were asleep. My breath made them stir, and the rocks took flight, the earth exploding... and my only thought was that I wanted you to see them, too.”

waiting for a roar

2011-10-19T17:59:00.000-07:00

roll through open doors

2011-10-13T21:48:00.000-07:00

on every wave

2011-10-12T15:06:00.000-07:00

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this.”

the idea of our futures slowly unraveling before us each day makes everything about life exciting. Maybe i'll make a few mistakes along the way...but i really i think i'm going to try to make the most of every opportunity–or at least attempt to do my best to. I like the idea of having the courage to take opportunities as they come. who knows where tomorrow will lead us...

the difference between

2011-10-02T19:40:00.000-07:00

sometimes the moon looks close enough to reach. right now it's doing one of those things where it's resting just above the city lights in the sky. i know it's just another trick played on us by our perception–but in low light, everything about the city seems caught somewhere in between a dream and the real.

from something bigger

2011-09-16T19:24:00.000-07:00

upon waking

2011-09-15T20:41:00.000-07:00

every photograph

2011-09-14T16:25:00.000-07:00

we'll be fine

2011-08-25T11:52:00.000-07:00

"we sometimes encounter people, even strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken."

In dreams for a while...

2011-08-15T18:30:00.000-07:00

Disturb us, Lord, when
We are too pleased with ourselves,
When our dreams have come true
Because we dreamed too little,
When we arrived safely
Because we sailed too close to the shore.

Disturb us, Lord, when
with the abundance of things we possess
We have lost our thirst
For the waters of life;
Having fallen in love with life,
We have ceased to dream of eternity
And in our efforts to build a new earth,
We have allowed our vision
Of the new Heaven to dim.

Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly,
To venture on wilder seas
Where storms will show Your mastery;
Where losing sight of land,
We shall find the stars.

We ask you to push back
The horizons of our hopes;
And to push back the future
In strength, courage, hope, and love.

This we ask in the name of our Captain,
Who is Jesus Christ.

wait and see

2011-08-10T23:02:00.000-07:00

sleep forever

2011-08-07T08:43:00.000-07:00

rise so high

2011-07-26T12:13:00.000-07:00

"What is the feeling when you're driving away from people, and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? -it's the too huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”

make something of all the noise

2011-07-20T18:29:00.000-07:00

don't fly too high

2011-07-18T13:44:00.000-07:00

Shiny, shiny secret stones

2011-07-08T16:52:00.000-07:00

much more than i had

2011-07-04T10:35:00.000-07:00

just dragonflies

2011-07-03T10:55:00.000-07:00

rebel sheep

2011-06-13T17:35:00.000-07:00

when we were in portland our friend showed us this rad video. it makes me really happy - well done, red fang

on our way home from tour this weekend we hit a bunch of traffic bringing the van to a slow roll in the countryside. what we assumed was a car crash ended up being a ton of sheep on the loose that had escaped & had taken over the freeway. i imagine it just took one bad lamb to lead them on a mission to destroy the world. you know, the one your mom always warned you about hanging out w/ in high school.

they would have gotten away with it too had it not been for the highway patrol. when we passed i was almost proud of them for escaping...little rebel sheep. there's really nothing like freedom :)

haunt the cause

2011-05-26T13:38:00.000-07:00

when i'm gone

2011-05-13T17:45:00.000-07:00

thoughts of you

2011-05-10T12:50:00.000-07:00

nothing to doubt

2011-05-09T16:59:00.000-07:00

having conversations with my parents these days, i can see how the whole dynamic has changed since i was a kid. I spoke as if i was coming from a place where i thought i had the world pretty much figured out. funny thing that as i'm getting older...i think about what wisdom actually is. It seems like it's, instead, the process of realization that I really don't i know much about things at all. after all this time, I'm finally beginning to see that real wisdom is finding out you have so much more to learn.

the sleepless waves

2011-05-06T14:58:00.000-07:00

to hear you speak of it

2011-05-04T22:02:00.000-07:00

stone love

2011-05-01T23:18:00.000-07:00

<3 BOWIE!!!

arise, arise

2011-04-29T16:50:00.000-07:00

a world of sound

2011-04-28T15:10:00.000-07:00

when you're close to me

2011-04-28T00:58:00.000-07:00

on a second chance

2011-04-25T14:50:00.000-07:00

“There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together”

numbers in action

2011-04-23T10:17:00.000-07:00

make us believe

2011-04-21T15:29:00.000-07:00

in between days

2011-04-20T17:52:00.000-07:00

walking sideways

2011-04-18T18:41:00.000-07:00

“It’s a dangerous business, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.”

never disarm

2011-04-17T14:11:00.000-07:00

for those who stay

2011-04-15T14:14:00.000-07:00

make you move

2011-04-14T16:39:00.000-07:00

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves

like the setting sun

2011-04-12T23:58:00.000-07:00

the rest just turns to dust

2011-04-11T13:39:00.000-07:00

forever fading black

2011-04-09T18:47:00.000-07:00

all it will be

2011-04-08T15:36:00.000-07:00

while the ocean blooms

2011-04-07T13:53:00.000-07:00

Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.

i kinda wish he said "wooooOOPS!" in every shot :D

to the ghost in my lungs

2011-04-05T22:29:00.000-07:00

"Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence."

times like these

2011-04-05T00:50:00.000-07:00

our sense of us

2011-04-02T17:36:00.000-07:00

free from it all

2011-04-01T13:03:00.000-07:00

all these voices

2011-03-30T15:57:00.000-07:00

we're here

2011-03-29T18:08:00.000-07:00

seasons start to change

2011-03-28T00:48:00.000-07:00

strangers to change

2011-03-25T14:05:00.000-07:00

when the night comes

2011-03-23T01:21:00.000-07:00

walking on a dream

2011-03-22T16:45:00.000-07:00

the weight of us

2011-03-21T14:26:00.000-07:00

in the morning

2011-03-20T17:57:00.000-07:00

i know places

2011-03-19T15:44:00.000-07:00

the phrases we breathed

2011-03-18T13:01:00.000-07:00

i've been thinking about the pattern of high & low moments we all seem to go through in life. it seems they follow each other the way that life & death do. do we figuratively die in some moments so that we can find restored life in another one? the way we go to sleep at night and wake in the morning parallels that idea. when we sleep we appear lifeless, but in the morning we find a fresh look at things and another chance to do things right. i think that's a pretty cool idea.

to join the crowd

2011-03-17T13:43:00.000-07:00

an easy swing

2011-03-16T12:48:00.000-07:00

your eyes are liars

2011-03-15T13:23:00.000-07:00

Youth knows no pain

2011-03-14T13:54:00.000-07:00

what it's been before

2011-03-13T12:10:00.000-07:00

back where i started at

2011-03-11T18:28:00.000-08:00

i guess i'm alive

2011-03-10T14:43:00.000-08:00

the end of all we see

2011-03-09T12:46:00.000-08:00

and in the dark

2011-03-08T14:48:00.000-08:00

i see it in everyone

2011-03-07T13:31:00.000-08:00

make your way to me

2011-03-06T17:32:00.000-08:00

we are more than we seem

2011-03-05T17:01:00.000-08:00

"But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion."

what's right and what's real

2011-03-03T12:55:00.000-08:00

give up the ghost

2011-03-02T15:44:00.000-08:00

walking away now

2011-03-01T17:39:00.000-08:00

how deep is your love

2011-02-25T18:35:00.000-08:00

i'll call you my friend

2011-02-24T15:48:00.000-08:00

I saw my very first shooting start the other day. Lord knows why it took me so long to catch one. There was something kind of magical about it. I was on my bike, and happened to be looking up at the black sky. I was so excited i yelled "YAAAAY!" thinking about all the times i had tried to see one & hadn't. Go figure, the time i'm not even looking for one i see it.

I had a thought this morning about how each day is a blessing. to wake up & know we can enjoy another day of life. there's been plenty of times the sun has gone down & i was only thinking about all of the ways i wanted to do things differently. but then there's a new day...and it's like a chance to clean the slate on everything and start again. so today i feel really lucky...well lucky & thankful.

i was just a number

2011-02-22T16:07:00.000-08:00

I feel really lucky to have grown up in a house that encouraged creativity. What i remember most is how my dad taught us to see the potential in something in an unconventional way. His brain was always thinking of various possibilities for objects & space. We didn't always understand what he was doing in the process (mostly because it looked like an insane mess). but at its completion, everything became really cohesive & awesome. That whole idea of transition still really impacts me. Now, when i see things people have left on the side of the road i laugh thinking about my dad's projects. Idk how many times he stopped to pick something up to throw in the back of his truck. years ago i found a globe lamp & a gigantic framed wall map. they were both in need of work, but in the end they became really awesome pieces. i think when i found those things i realized the value in the way my dad saw things with a vision.

in the same way i think i like to do that with people too in seeing their potential. i do that mostly because i would want someone to see the good in me as well. i know for sure we're always changing. that whole process is so messy & it can be almost impossible to see change in progress. it's one of those things that takes a lot of time & patience. i will always believe that a person is capable of change for the better - that's what i hope for. just like the "treasures" my dad would see in the things people threw away.

to find some light

2011-02-17T14:33:00.000-08:00

the movement of the leaves

2011-02-16T18:25:00.000-08:00

"One day after the passing of all our egos we might come home and become again like the movement of the leaves moving all together with one clear singing voice as the wind hits the trees, but it will be a long time from now."

words you can't recall

2011-02-15T17:57:00.000-08:00

i saw this movie a few weeks ago w/ some friends. we sat in the theater until the house lights came back on. Reeeeally heavy film, but there were so many elements of beauty that stay on your mind afterwards. i love when a film gets you thinking about things. Blue Valentine made me question a lot of things & wonder what love even is. i'm sure a lot of people walk out disheartened, but for some reason i was really hopeful. things like that remind me that i've got a lot to learn

i'll bring you home

2011-02-14T18:06:00.000-08:00

may I never wake

2011-02-13T09:23:00.000-08:00

you'll be the dust in the room

2011-02-12T10:41:00.000-08:00

with your honor

2011-02-09T13:31:00.000-08:00

all these words

2011-02-08T11:21:00.000-08:00

you are the life

2011-02-07T13:07:00.000-08:00

i've been thinking if it's possible to approach situations from both an idealistic & realistic perspective. going too far either way can be dangerous. an extreme optimist, unfortunately, seems crazy and unaware of reality. the pessimist doesn't seem to possess the ability to facilitate growth & change. how do we live somewhere in the middle. to live & hope for the absolute best, imagining greatness but then also being flexible. watching to see how things work themselves out seems to be a good way to go about it. i'm realizing viewing things this way really takes a lot of wisdom & maturity - yikes

holy geez...this was probably one of my most favorite shows ever.

here i stand

2011-02-06T10:56:00.000-08:00