Did you know that I have a page on this site that is dedicated to micro posts? Think quick tweets or blurbs of whatever I need to post as opposed to long form writing on the main page here.
Chris
Explore More
For me to experience life I must explore. The insatiable urge to see what’s around the next corner must be satisfied or I will die, so it is for my own survival I must go. And so I go, typically with a camera as I have time and time again.
On Meditation
The best meditation is being genuinely curious about the contents of your own mind.
Naval
Stop. Enjoy.
I came to a point where I needed solitude and to just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living…
Jack Kerouac
The Infinite Web
From the short story of Jorge Luis Borges’ “Book of Sand,” there is an ancient book with no beginning and has no end. The narrator discovers this simple-looking book contains endless volumes of information that was good and evil.
“I realized that the book was monstrous. It was cold consolation to think that I, who looked upon it with my ten flesh-and-bone fingers, was no less monstrous than the book. I felt it was a nightmare thing, an obscene thing, and that it defiled and corrupted reality. I considered fire, but I feared that the burning of an infinite book might be similarly infinite, and suffocate the planet in smoke.”
He quickly deposits the terrifying, infinite book to the National Library and vows never to go to a library or bookstore again.
It’s strange to me to think that we open our very own Books of Sand every day without thinking of the consequences. The sheer infinite volume of the WWW is too difficult to imagine. It is our nightmare and distorts our reality. Like all tools, it can be used for good, but we humans do a frightening job of perverting even the best intentions.
Never Enough
… not enough ecstasy for me, not enough life, joy, kicks, darkness, music, not enough night.
Jack Kerouac
GC9XF0J
After eleven years of geocaching, I finally have submitted my own hidden cache into the wild.
Geocache #6 (GC9XF0J) is located east of downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma and is currently pending review on my submission. But it is placed and ready to go!
There Is Nothing New Under The Sun
“THE IMPOSSIBLE ATTRACTS ME BECAUSE EVERYTHING POSSIBLE HAS BEEN DONE AND THE WORLD DIDN’T CHANGE”
– Sun Ra
Noble Superiority
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises
Don’t you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you’re not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you’ve lived nearly half the time you have to live already?
Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
I’m re-reading this novel and it’s amazing how there are so many applicable quotes that hit me straight on.
Why Ask Why
“Do you ever know what the birds are singing? You don’t. But you listen to them anyway.”
Pablo Picasso
Picasso, when asked what his paintings meant.
Sometimes we create for the sake of creating and seeing what happens. There are times where I go out to shoot & don’t develop the film for months or post-process the digital photos in Lightroom for awhile. I do it just for the experience of creating and exploring.
Own Your Domain
“Lastly, if there’s anything I can convince you of: you should build a personal site, you should obsess over it, you should meticulously document it, and you should have quite a bit of fun doing so. (It’s worth it.)”
Justin Duke