and your mission, if you so chose to accept it....

"here is the test to find out whether or not your mission on earth is finished: if you are alive, it isn't"... richard bach

i am not sure what my mission is right now. but i am on a mission to find my mission...

courtesy of dept of defense website.....

WANT!

THIS!!!!

genius = happiness squared...

i was sent this quote recently.....it got me thinking, and, off on a search to find out maybe what einstein's "goals" were. but i ended up just blown away by his geniusness on many a subject. not sure why i am so surprised... but i've now added a bunch of his books to my wish list! 

"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things." - Einstein. 

more einstein genius:

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. 

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.  

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. 

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. 

"wow" (aka - words of wisdom!)

courtesy of my friend sean's status today:

Take chances. Tell the truth. Date someone totally wrong for you. Say no. Spend all your cash! Fall in love. Get to know someone random. Be random. Say I love you. Sing out loud. Laugh at a stupid joke. Cry. Get revenge. Apologize. Tell someone how much they mean to you. Tell the asshole what you feel. Let someone know what they're missing. Laugh til your stomach hurts. LIVE LIFE!

i liked it ;)

run lola run....

"you can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you."...rwandan proverb

i have always loved running long distances. having a set goal, the end of that road, or this many laps or miles; challenging myself to a greater distance. loved the steady pace, the steady breathing, the pushing through the pain.  the ability to speed up to sweat out the anger or slow down and enjoy a moment. but there was always a beginning. an end. a goal i was certain of and could accomplish. and i ran to it.


life is a little more open ended then that. in case you hadn't noticed. how do you really know if you're running to something or away from something? is either right or wrong? and what is it that drives that run motivation? 


and maybe? maybe i could learn a lesson from my ortho surgeon who says not to run, just walk.....

sleep to dream...

"if you stop dreaming you are just asleep"....unknown

i loved this when i read it. then i sat and really thought about it. 

i have had some REALLY bad nightmares. and some REALLY good dreams. i'd always rather have a nightmare, because it's temporary. waking up to reality is usually better. not so much with a good dream...

sleep to dream

and sleep is such a peaceful, and necessary, state.....


and some people, are just dreamers. in the clouds....


where is the balance between dreaming and pursuing those dreams, and living in the now and the reality? how do you know what dreams are worth pursuing, risking, putting energy into? what if you pursue a dream for 15 years and nothing happens, are you wrong to give up? wrong to have pursued so long in the first place, or right for believing in your dream despite challenges or lack of success. i mean, i am guessing here that "man" had a dream to get to space for more than 15 years before it actually happened, right? 

dream within a dream

have you ever had the same dream twice? and in the dream realized you were dreaming? i think i have (had) that awake as well....

¹dream

 noun, often attributive \ˈdrēm\

Definition of DREAM

1

: a series of thoughts, images, or emotions occurring during sleep — compare rem sleep

2

: an experience of waking life having the characteristics of a dream: asa : a visionary creation of the imagination : daydreamb : a state of mind marked by abstraction or release from reality : reveriec : an object seen in a dreamlike state : vision

3

: something notable for its beauty, excellence, or enjoyable quality car is a dream to operate>

4

a : a strongly desired goal or purpose dream of becoming president>b : something that fully satisfies a wish : ideal dream>

i want this!!!

the WORD posted a blog about this ridiculously cool book!

Tree of Codes

An enormous last day of life.

“Jonathan Safran Foer, deftly deploys sculptural means to craft a truly compelling story. In our world of screens, he welds narrative, materiality, and our reading experience into a book that remembers that it actually has a body.”
–Olafur Eliasson

Our early conversations with Jonathan Safran Foer aboutTree of Codes started when Jonathan said he was curious to explore and experiment with the die-cut technique. With that as our mutual starting point, we spent many months of emails and phone calls, exploring the idea of the pages’ physical relationship to one another and how this could somehow be developed to work with a meaningful narrative. This led to Jonathan deciding to use an existing piece of text and cut a new story out of it. Having considered working with various texts, Jonathan decided to cut into and out of what he calls his “favourite book”: The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz.

As Jonathan began to carve out his story, we started doing our production homework and literally got turned down by every printer we approached – their stock line being “the book you want to make just cannot be made”. Thankfully, we found Die Keure in Belgium who relished the challenge of making a book with a different die-cut on every page.

Over a year of writing, cutting and proto-typing later, comesTree of Codes, a haunting new story by Jonathan Safran Foer cut from Bruno Schulz’s words.

The book is as much a sculptural object as it is a work of masterful storytelling: here is an “enormous last day of life” that looks like it feels.

Design by Sara De Bondt Studio
Cover design by gray318

Published 15 November 2010
ISBN 978-0-9565692-1-9
Paperback

how insane is this guys mind? in the best way! adding this to the amazon universal wish list now!