today

Shoreline in Mountain View, Ca.

oh, the places you'll go

Dr. Seuss by way of Burning Man. It's on my bucket list.

READING

• A Poem A Day  Amy Turn Sharp is writing a poem a day for an entire year. That's some ambitioius shit.

 LOOKING

•  Getting lost in the deliciousness of Sandra's food memories of 2011. My, she eats well.

WORKING ON

• 28 Ways to Stop Complicating Your Life
• My word of the year, which is DO. Last year it was FOCUS and I didn't do so well. I'm keeping lists of things that need to be done, trying not to let too many moments of idle time drift by. But every now and then I find myself hopelessly wandering around at the corner of Facebook and Twitter and I don't know how to get back. And by every now and then I mean EVERY EFFING DAY. But the year is still young and I'm much too hard on myself.

LISTENING

• Free by Graffiti6 I have been listening to this song for weeks now and I can't stop.

WATCHING

• Jeff Harris: 4748 Self Portraits and Counting. I have seen this video floating around on various blogs for the past week or so. I bookmarked it but it wasn't until yesterday that I finally watched it. I'm not sure why I kept avoiding it. Maybe a power greater than me knew that I wouldn't be able to give myself over to it quite yet. But I'm glad I finally did. It wasn't what I expected. At all. It's beautiful. It's poignant. And you must watch it.

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Mountain View, California ~

quotes

“Exhibiting my photographs over the years, I have watched people’s reactions to images that I often thought had meaning only to me because I had been witness to the moment in real time when the picture was taken. But I learned that everyone brings a personal past to their sight, projecting themselves into an image in order to receive something back he or she can relate to personally. This has confirmed for me the universality of life’s experiences, and the possibility that a moment in ‘real time’ is often just a comprehensible moment in eternity.”

 ~ Deborah DeWit Marchant in Traveling Light

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"I only wanted Uncle Vernon standing by his own car (a Hudson) on a clear day. I got him and the car. I also got a bit of Aunt Mary’s laundry and Beau Jack the dog peeing on the fence, and a row of potted tuberous begonias on the porch and 78 trees and a million pebbles in the driveway and more. It’s a generous medium, photography."

~ Lee Friedlander

from Blake Andrews post The millionth pebble

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"At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands in front of the camera, to honor what is greater and more interesting than we are. We never accomplish this perfectly though, in return we are given something perfect - a sense of inclusion."

~ Robert Adams

breakfast

Breakfast at IHOP ( San Bruno, California ) ~