View From The Truck Window: New Year's Eve

Saturday, December 31, 2016

New Year's Eve

Wow, don't we all yearn for more? And this is the time that longing emerges the strongest, this artificial construct that lets us imagine a change of calendar heralds a brand-new life. A life with no mistakes in it, a life in which we can finally be the person we want to be.

Hey, I'm not disparaging that longing! I feel it too. The more intensely, as a matter of fact, as I get older. My longing is also tinged with regret for the growing number of new years that haven't been an entirely successful reinvention of myself. Hope is futile without action, though. May this be the year that all of us add the proper action that makes a strong foundation under our dreams.

So dream on. Dream big! And act, my friends. Let's take that step together.

Happy New Year!

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Quotes I Like

"To make images is a way of ordering one's world, of exploring and understanding one's relationship to existence. . . . The images we make are often ahead of our understanding, but to say "yes" to a subject is also to have recognized, however dimly, a part of oneself; to live with that image, to accept its significance is perhaps to grow in understanding."

~ John Blakemore

"The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking -- and looking."

~ Brooks Atkinson

"To be an artist is to notice every beautiful and tragic thing, to cry freely, to collect experience and shape it into forms that others can share."

~ Jan Phillips

"Images unearthed are not merely random, they are metaphor. I am not creating something else. I am revealing who I am."

~ Catherine Moore

"Excellent day for putting Slinkies on an escalator."

~ Unknown

"We do not remember days, we remember moments."

~ Cesare Pavese

"Life is getting up an hour early to live an hour more."

~ Hal Borland

"The silence spoke loudly of silence,

and the rivers kept speaking,

of rivers, of boulders and air."

~ Jane Hirshfield

"Have you ever noticed how "What the hell" is always the right decision to make?"

~ Terry Johnson

"I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them."

~ Diane Arbus

"Photographers too often hear, "Your camera takes good pictures." Imagine telling an author, "Your computer writes such great books."

~ Sandra Juto

"Art is not a pastime but a priesthood."

~ Jean Cocteau

"Earth's crammed with Heaven,

And every common bush afire with God;

But only he who sees, takes off his shoes -

The rest sit 'round it and pluck blackberries."

~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning