quote:

"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of a genius."

thought:

essentially, it's only the thought of possible fear and failure that frightens us-- not fear and failing manifested in action & experience:

I feared riding my bike up a large steep hill, I allowed it to hinder me from beginning my journey sooner... yet, as I was venturing up the large steep hill my thoughts were set only on conquering & making it up...no thought of fear of failure because quite simply, I was just doing what I had initially feared.

In action, there is no room for fear, we are programmed to endure and thrive... which leads me to love & embrace this line from Paulo Coehlo's novel, By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

"If pain must come, may it come quickly because I have a life to live and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him. Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering."

coop flip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvjgy88Nl0M

thought:

is it o.k. to start your day... on the computer?... refer to video "shift happens" (below)


oh, shift.

fact of the day:

The Rafflesia arnoldii flower is the largest flower in the world, and grows up to three feet wide and fifteen pounds heavy
(fact of the day.co.uk)

shift happens:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljbI-363A2Q

I basically wish to utilize this as a physical manifestation of my thoughts and wants of connection to others via aesthetic stimulation, wisdom and the written word. 

 Famous curator, photographer & radical woman Nancy Newhall, stated 

"I seem to have inherited so strong a strain of idealism that I pour all of my energies into the present and I hope the future."

Here I present my thoughts and my inspirations and you may take connect to them, and connect to me, if you so choose. 

It all comes down to love, and I suppose I just want to build up the bravery to say that, and to be that.