“Let’s look closer at the size of our hearts, the width of our souls, and the length of our spirits.”-SARK

But if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.  - Carl Jung

Story is my drive...Sound is my guide to inner knowledge...Soul is my constant companion teaching me graciousness...Home is the place I seek and sometimes see...Water nourishes my body...Wind leads me where I need to be...and Fire sparks the power in me to change.

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 "I think five minutes can be an eternity if it's well used, you know. There are periods of time that are gems, but you don't have to go into a blizzard in South Dakota or into the rain forests of New Zealand or the middle of the Sahara. You can find that just walking down the street."

Viggo Mortensen
The Rebel King
By Chris Heath
GQ magazine, 2004

I planted a maple tree next to the first house I owned, just a skinny runt of a thing...  It seemed far off in the future before that tree would amount to anything.  But when I went back there 40 years later, I couldn't believe my eyes.  The tree was towering over the house, the queen of the neighborhood.  In the meantime, I'd become an old man.  ( Read more... )

Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.

Marguerite, Countess of Blessington

 "We each have only a limited amount of time here. We have to do more with it - pay attention, explore, be open to all of life. Because we have only one chance, we have to make life seem longer than it really is."

Viggo Mortensen
I Still Ask Why
Dotson Rader
Parade magazine, 2004

There are three material things... essential to life.  These are pure air, water and earth.  There are three immaterial things... essential to life.  These are admiration, hope and love.  Admiration-- the power of discerning and taking delight in what is beautiful in visible form and lovely in human character; and necessarily striving to produce ( Read more... )

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit.   The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

Marcus Aurelius

With foam and spray and a boundless roar, the sleepless sea calls us toward the shore.  The wisdom of all life lives here, where the land and water kiss, a shimmer of waves and wind whispering the secrets of our origins.  How easily we are lured by scientific knowledge to measure this mystery-- calculating geology, biology, climate.  But when an ( Read more... )