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You are the full moon over an empty cove whose flowing tide is the gentle rhythm of your breathing. And I can spend eons exploring the contours of your mystery. I search night after night, desperately running my fingers through the cold sand whilst I lie alone in my bed. I know not which grain of sand I seek but your calm light I pray my soul to keep eternally. I know that soon a single, quiet breath will wash away any memory of my pressence there on that tranquil beach. Until another night I return to bask in your grey moonlight, wait for me.

"How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?" -Albert Einstein

The Most Important Thing

Everyone likes to examine their physical exterior in the mirror, but many -myself included- avoid any further scrunity of that person. Self-reflection, self-analyzation, or any examination of inner features has always been a difficult pursuit for me. But what I've realized in the past few days is that there is nothing more important than checking up on the ego, the person inside. Why is this so? Because in the end, you're all there is. Everything you percieve is a product of neurons in your own brain, the ultimate vessel from the outside world to your individual self. The only thing one can be certain of is that he or she exists. Apart from that, everything is subject to doubt. So, I conclude that anlyzing yourself, your actions, your thoughts, your moods, your morals, and your values is far more significant than anything. Ever!

"Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves." -Eleanor Chaffee

The Science of Happiness

I recently came across a few articles addressing the "Science of Well Being". According to the linked article, true happiness does not stem from temporary pleasure (that only leaves room for the desire of more pleasure), but rather from doing positive things. Experts and politicians are taking such data increasingly seriously. Over the past decade, the study of happiness, formerly the preserve of philosophers, therapists and gurus, has morphed into a bona fide discipline. You can find "professors of happiness" at leading universities, "quality of life" institutes the world over, and thousands of research papers. It even has its own journal, the Journal of Happiness Studies. Interesting...

"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be." -Thomas A. Kempis

Point

I've learned that balance is key. The duality of all things is a constant motion.

A concern of mine that has shown itself frequently in the past few weeks (it being Summer break and all) is the balance between intake and output in regards to creativity. I see artistic expression as a product of the artist's observed or percieved stimuli. You can visualize the artist's mind like a filter through which the outside universe passes and transforms into art. This concept could also be applied in the intellectual realm as well with information learned and observed filtering through the individual resulting in, oh I don't know, theories, summaries, etc.

So yeah, basically I want to focus on maintaining that balance as an artist. For me at least, it is all to easy to get caught up in the beauty of everything and just taking it all in and becoming an eardrum or a tongue or just a pair of wandering eyes. I have to push myself to take what I observe and just DO art!

"In the fields of observation, chance favors the prepared mind." -Louis Pasteur

Inside Me...

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"Never Can Say Goodbye", my tribute to MJ:

"Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in merciful is to have the real spirit of Christmas." - Calvin Coolidge

Mission Statement-First Post

 To me, the word "blog" seems to combine the routine scripture of a "log" with a dash of  "blah blah blah". 

No one knows what the future may hold for this young blog, but for now the goals of this page will be to...

• consolidate recent thoughts, speculations, theories

• expose interesting and cool art and media I come accross or produce

• include links to intellectually and spiritually "enlightening" information

So, we'll see how this goes

"Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dared to win." - Bernadette Devlin