move

“All change is not growth; as all movement is not forward”
~Ellen Glasgow

a mission in the mission

It started as a trip set forth to find a couple of old photobooths in the Mission, but ended with plenty of flicks of the neighborhood instead of new photobooth strips.

we ride : we fly

“The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.”

~William Arthur Ward

battery views

“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

on the water

sutro bath ruins

I recently had the pleasure of visiting this fascinating little alcove on a perfectly sunny day.

word of the day: palingenesis

“Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix”
~Christina Baldwin

random beauty

“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart”
~Kahlil Gibran

 

cemetary grounds

“There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.”

~Tennessee Williams

broken

“Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafairing soul, if either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.”
~Kahlil Gibran

chapel of chimes

“There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be.”
~Leon Bloy

colorkinetic

“Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.”

~Pablo Picasso

firmament

“We'd never know how high we are, till we are called to rise; and then, if we are true to plan, our statures touch the sky”
~Emily Dickinson

inversion

“When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality”
~Henry David Thoreau

phantasm

“What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.”
~Buddha