response to landscape

bodyscape II, originally uploaded by McBeth.

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.

-- Lawrence Durrell

hello? hello?

beeting hearts, originally uploaded by McBeth.

There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again.

-- Bill Bryson

that which you can, you do

(hospital) room with a view, originally uploaded by McBeth.

There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.

-- Leo Buscaglia

brother

quinn , originally uploaded by McBeth.

The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.

-- Garrison Keillor

let's do lunch

bright eyes, originally uploaded by McBeth.

I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.

-- Mitch Hedberg

masked

settle down kitty, originally uploaded by McBeth.

We were that generation called ''silent,'' but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was man's fate.

-- Joan Didion

purple

fresh breath, originally uploaded by McBeth.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

-- Alice Walker

stand up

protest in madison: 02/26/11, originally uploaded by McBeth.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

to be fair

Above all., originally uploaded by McBeth.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

once upon a time

swerve, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Solid stone is just sand and water, baby
Sand and water, and a million years gone by.

-- Beth Nielsen Chapman

high height

Mad Rollin' Dolls 2011: Bout 3, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

if you look closely

over there, originally uploaded by McBeth.

When you are describing
A shape, or sound, or tint;
Don't state the matter plainly,
But put it in a hint;
And learn to look at all things
With a sort of mental squint.

-- Lewis Carroll

interrelated

chair boss, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.

-- Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

darned if you don't

this that, originally uploaded by McBeth.

What then after the medications, psychiatrist, despair, depression, and overdose? All those incredible feelings to sort through. Who is being too polite to say what? Who knows what? What did I do? Why? And most hauntingly, when will it happen again? Then, too, are the bitter reminders..... medicine to take, resent, forget, take, resent, and forget, but always to take.

-- Kay Jamison

take a seat and wait

swimming is not advised., originally uploaded by McBeth.

I saw a human pyramid once. It was very unnecessary. It did not need to exist.

-- Mitch Hedberg

draggin' wagon

Davina DeVille, originally uploaded by McBeth.

As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done.

-- Pablo Picasso

opened up

washington state, originally uploaded by McBeth.

We all experience many freakish and unexpected events - you have to be open to suffering a little. The philosopher Schopenhauer talked about how out of the randomness, there is an apparent intention in the fate of an individual that can be glimpsed later on. When you are an old guy, you can look back, and maybe this rambling life has some through-line. Others can see it better sometimes. But when you glimpse it yourself, you see it more clearly than anyone.

-- Viggo Mortensen

inflate your life raft

persimmon's art, originally uploaded by McBeth.

I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.

-- Ava Gardner

Mister Owl, how many licks does it take?

three tomatoes, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

-- Buddha

wide open

blue sky barney, originally uploaded by McBeth.

The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant; in other words how to combine the search for an expansion of inner awareness with effective social action, and how to feel one's true identity in both.

-- Ursula K Leguin

dispersion

dolly, originally uploaded by McBeth.

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.

-- Jack Kerouac

risk assessment

recycle h2o, originally uploaded by McBeth.

The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.

-- Henry Ford

sunday dinner

sunday dinner, originally uploaded by McBeth.

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

-- Hunter S. Thompson

faraway

hornby island twilight, originally uploaded by McBeth.

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.

-- Albert Einstein

this is how it is done

fly away, originally uploaded by McBeth.

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

-- Douglas Adams

consolation

watch over, originally uploaded by McBeth.

In our sad condition, our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

-- Martin Luther

depths

ice water, originally uploaded by McBeth.

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

-- Sigmund Freud

locker up

pink padlock, originally uploaded by McBeth.

I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.

-- Elayne Boosler

domesticum

domesticum, originally uploaded by McBeth.

I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station. And if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their women.

-- Alexis de Tocqueville

reflection

reflection, originally uploaded by McBeth.

For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections.

-- Peace Pilgrim

Age does not protect you from love.  But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

-- Jeanne Moreau

friendly fields

jo , originally uploaded by McBeth.

As she has planted, so does she harvest; such is the field of karma.


-- Sri Guru Granth Sahib

go knit

knit, originally uploaded by McBeth.

If some sissy chick tried to kick my ass I would say hey, missy, go knit me a sweater before I slap you in the face!

-- Eric Cartman

rest your head for just five minutes

weep, originally uploaded by McBeth.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

-- Ernest Hemingway

cinnamon toast

holiday, originally uploaded by McBeth.

This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.

-- Dorothy Parker

rebel with cause

give me a sign, originally uploaded by McBeth.

If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents: outearn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.

-- Henry Rollins

the lookout

carmel corn, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

-- Mae West

commitment

Grandpa's ring , originally uploaded by McBeth.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

-- Martin Luther

just sit down

ring of flowers, originally uploaded by McBeth.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

-- Ernest Hemingway

pigs, primarily

pigs, primarily, originally uploaded by McBeth.

The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels.

-- George Bush, Sr.

in dignity

memorial, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.

-- Luigi Pierandello

eventually

'49 desoto, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these.

-- Robert H. Stoddard

waiting for what's next

woman at bus stop, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

-- Ovid

holiday onslaught

merry christmas, retail style, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.

-- David Barry

uno dos tres

analogous, originally uploaded by McBeth.

We can comprehend every single life phenomenon, as if the past, the present, and the future together with a superordinate, guiding idea were present in it in traces.

-- Alfred Adler

dig your well

badger liquor shop, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Thatch your roof before rainy weather; dig your well before you become parched with thirst.

-- Chinese Proverb

streeting

blue cap @ yellow jersey, originally uploaded by McBeth.

If you had a friend who was a tightrope walker, and you were walking down a sidewalk, and he fell, that would be completely unacceptable...

-- Mitch Hedberg

fabulous yellow

once we went to a mall, originally uploaded by McBeth.

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"

-- Jack Kerouac

immoovable

she says she wants a word with you, originally uploaded by McBeth.

To my mind, the only possible pet is a cow. Cows love you. . . . They will listen to your problems and never ask a thing in return. They will be your friends forever. And when you get tired of them, you can kill and eat them. Perfect.

-- Bill Bryson

walkabout

walking with the girls at Indian Lake, originally uploaded by McBeth.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

-- Buddha