Life

2005.12.31 - New Year's Eve 2005
If you go to Tokyo I would highly recommend the waterway tour. You don't realize the enormity of the city until you see it from the river banks.

12.30.5
"I was hungry. I was cold. But I was also free. Free not to get up in the morning, not to go to bed at night, free to get drunk if I liked, to dream... to hope."
- Edith Piaf

7.9.5
"Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump. You may be freeing him from being a camel."
- G.K. Chesterton

7.9.5
"If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms."
- Henry Miller

7.9.5
"If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."
- Henry David Thoreau

"O Lord our God,
help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells;
help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead;
help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the wounded, writhing in pain;
help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire;
help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with
unavailing grief;
help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended through wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sport of the sun-flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it
- for our sakes, who adore Thee, Lord,
blast their hopes,
blight their lives,
protract their bitter pilgrimage,
make heavy their steps,
water…

6.3.5
Baker Beach
San Francisco, CA
"The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work."
- Richard Bach

6.3.5
"Today isn't any other day, you know."
- Lewis Carroll

6.3.5
Baker Beach
San Francisco, CA
"It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character of art."
- Walter Pater

6.3.5
Baker Beach
San Francisco, CA
"No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it."
-Richard Bach