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Tuesday, April 2, 2013

B for Beauty

“So many things become beautiful when you really look.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

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This post forms a part of the Blogging for A to Z Challenge. A quote a day based on the chosen word. A photograph that means something to me in relation to the word, but may not to you.

Monday, March 11, 2013

“Is this Clarissa Fray?" The voice on the other end of the phone sounded familiar, though not immediately identifiable.
Clary twirled the phone cord nervously around her finger. "Yeees?"
"Hi, I'm one of the knife-carrying hooligans you met last night in Pandemonium? I"m afraid I made a bad impression and was hoping you'd give me a chance to make it up to-"
"SIMON!" Clary held the phone away from her ear as he cracked up laughing. "That is so not funny!"
"Sure it is. You just don't see the humor."
"Jerk." Clary sighed, leaning up against the wall.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
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Words. Images. Thoughts. Ideas. Generalizations. Specifics. Stream of Consciousness.
Things either just fall into place, or not!

Sunday, September 30, 2012

Stream of Consciousness

"....consciousness, then, does not appear to itself as chopped up in bits ... it is nothing joined; it flows. A 'river' or a 'stream' are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described. in talking of it hereafter, lets call it the stream of thought, consciousness, or subjective life."
- William James, The Principles of Psychology
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Words. Images. Thoughts. Ideas. Generalizations. Specifics. Stream of Consciousness.
During the month of October, I am going to just watch things fall into place, or not!

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

see at forty

"A person who does not see at forty the same wonder and beauty in the world

around that she saw at ten is probably 'wasted.' "

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

# 16 : The Faces Project

“Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying you can never change your fate. Isn't that true?”

- Amy Tan

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

# 4 : The Faces Project

"Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be."

Lauren Hutton

Saturday, April 28, 2012

Y is for Yalow, Rosalyn S. Yalow

"The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old."

Rosalyn S. Yalow

600,000 girls go missing in India every year- aborted before they are born; killed at childbirth; abandoned in infancy, allowed to die of mal-nourishment or lack of timely medical care.

As a part of A-Z Challenge, the blog will host a photograph of a woman who survived, along with a quote by a famous (or not so famous) woman.

Monday, April 9, 2012

H is for Hepburn, Katherine Hepburn

"I don't think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I thik that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more."

Katherine Hepburn

600,000 girls go missing in India every year- aborted before they are born; killed at childbirth; abandoned in infancy, allowed to die of mal-nourishment or lack of timely medical care.

As a part of A-Z Challenge, the blog will host a photograph of a woman who survived, along with a quote by a famous (or not so famous) woman.

Thursday, April 5, 2012

E for Evans, Mary Ann Evans

"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?"
Mary Ann Evans/ George Elliot

600,000 girls go missing in India every year- aborted before they are born; killed at childbirth; abandoned in infancy, allowed to die of mal-nourishment or lack of timely medical care.

As a part of A-Z Challenge, the blog will host a photograph of a woman who survived, along with a quote by a famous (or not so famous) woman.