Archive for July 2009

thousand word thursday

In images, life, photography, quotes on 30 July 2009 tagged thursday, woodrow wilson bridge with 3 comments

we cross our bridges when we come to them, and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered. (t. stoppard)

it’s official

In life, thoughts, work on 24 July 2009 tagged new job with 3 comments

i have a new job.
as of august 3, i will be a federal employee with the national institutes of health.
reaching this decision was one of the more stressful times in my life — thinking, rethinking, deciding, changing my mind, thinking again — in fact, i was occupied with nothing other than this for the past [...]

thousand word thursday

In beauty, images, life, photography, quotes on 23 July 2009 tagged sartre, thursday with 1 comment

there is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk. (j.p. sartre)

questions

In life, poem of the day, quotes on 20 July 2009 tagged questions, r.m. rilke with 2 comments

have patience with everything
that remains unsolved in your heart.
try to love the questions themselves,
like locked rooms and like books
written in a foreign language.
do not now look for the answers.
they cannot now be given to you
because you could not live them.
it is a question of experiencing everything.
at present you need to live the question.
perhaps you will [...]

1960-1999

In life, quotes on 18 July 2009 tagged jfk jr with 1 comment

we dared to think, in that other irish phrase, that this john kennedy would live to comb gray hair, with his beloved carolyn by his side. but, like his father, he had every gift but length of years.
(e. kennedy)
i can’t believe it’s been ten years.