live Your Best life..

Yousuf Karsh and People

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Meet the people through the eyes of Karsh

I've lived 30 years..

30 years..!
I feel like I ran out of the excuses.

 I don't want to get to the end of my life

and find out that I lived just the length of it.

I want to have lived the width of it as well.

-Diane Ackerman

The power of vulnerability

To my husband, who freed me to be vulnerable, and to love him whole heartedly.

AWEsome

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Unlike the "me, me, me" that most varieties of pleasure trigger, AWE MAKES US FEEL WARM and fuzzy toward those around us.
Overwhelming, surprising, humbling, even alittle terrifying- Awe is what we feel when faced with something sublime, exceptional or altogether beyond comprehension.
How can science measure the feeling of peering over the Grand Canyon or holding your newborn for the first time?
Dacher Keltner, PhD believes that more nuanced sensations-compassion, forgiveness, humility, and awe are what push us beyond self-interest and "wire us for good." Cultivating awe, he says, is part of unlocking the truest sense of life's purpose. In Keltner's words, awe shifts a person's thinking "toward the collective" - O, Nov 2010

merry christmas

Yuji Obata HOMAGE TO WILSON A. BENTLEY #3, 2005-2006.
more at danzier projects NY

wonderfully 1 year

On our flight back home from Scottsdale,

October 30

No Promises

To live content with small means;
to seek elegance rather than luxury
and refinement rather than fashion;
to be worthy, not respectable; and
wealthy, not rich; to study hard,
think quietly, talk gently, act frankly...to
listen to stars and buds, to babes and
sages, with open heart; await occasions,
hurry never...this is my symphony

-william henry channing

Ch. 3

"Dance as though no one is watching you.
Love as though you have never been hurt before.
Sing as though no one can hear you.
Live as though heaven is on earth."
-souza

That's how a new chapter began.

Make the most of your regrets.
To regret deeply is to live afresh.

-Henry David Thoreau

'suchness'

Relationship

Connection doesn't necessary mean

Communication

I wish..

phew,,

Art credits::Han, Jemma::South Korea

amore vole fe

Carla Bruni-
Interview with Marie Claire

MC: you have also sung, “But my youth looks at me cruelly/ It tells me that it’s the time of departures/ I’m returning to other stars.” How do you see the end of your life?

CBS: I don’t obsess over it, but it does haunt me. I just hope to not have to live to an old age that is completely frayed. And I am less anguished about the progressive loss of my youthful physique than the idea of losing the essence of youthfulness- such as hopes, projects, all of the different roads to take. I don’t particularly like wrinkles, but I also feel they add a certain charm to them is a war lost in advance. My thing is to just stay out of the sun. I never tan.

Ithaka

As you set out for Ithaka

hope your road is a long one,

full of adventure, full of discovery.

Laistrygonians, Cyclops,

angry Poseidon- don't be afraid of them:

you'll never find things like that on your way

as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,

as long as a rare excitement

stirs your spirit and your body.

Laistrygonians, Cyclops,

wild Poseidon-you won't encournter them

unless you bring them along inside your soul,

unless your soul set them up in front of you.

Hope your road is a long one.

May there be many summer mornings when,

with what pleasure, what joy,

you enter harbors you're seeing for the first time;

may you stop at Phoenician trading stations

to buy fine things,

mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,

sensual perfume of every kind-

as many sensual perfumes as you can;

and may you visit many Egyptian cities

to learn and go on learning from their scholars.

Keep Ithaka always in your mind.

Arriving there is what you're destined for.

But don't hurry the jorney at all.

Better if it lasts for years,

so you're old by the time you reach the island,

wealthy with all you've gained on the way,

not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.

Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey.

Without her you wouldn't have set out.

She has noting left to give you now.

And if you find her poor, Ithaka won't have fooled you.

Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,

you'll have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.

C.P. Cavafy.

From Mrs. Kimberly Perotti

11th grade English and US History

at Maria Carrillo Highschool in Santa Rosa CA.

Success

"Success is like reaching an important birthday

and finding you're exactly the same."

-Audrey Hepburn

lesson of power

"A wise man knew all about money and happiness, because he had both. During a period of financial challenges he was asked, "What is it like being poor?" He replied, "I'm not poor, I am broke. Poor is a state of mind and I will never be poor."

-Life Lessons