Me and my lady on a gorgeous March day in Minnesota. She’s still got it. (Taken with instagram)
Crawling the underbelly arches bridging the Mississippi. (Taken with instagram)
A European gigolo in the making? (Taken with instagram)
beingblog:
“Good things come from a quiet place: study, prayer, music, transformation, worship, communion. The words ‘peace’ and ‘quiet’ are all but synonymous, and are often spoken in the same breath. A quiet place is the think tank of the soul, the spawning ground of truth and beauty.
A quiet place outdoors has no physical borders or limits to perception. One can commonly hear for miles and listen even farther. A quiet place affords a sanctuary for the soul, where the difference between right and wrong becomes more readily apparent. It is a place to feel the love that connects all things, large and small, human and not; a place where presence of a tree can be heard. A quiet place is a place to open up all your senses and come alive.”
—Gordon Hempton, from One Square Inch of SilencePhoto by Eden Politte/Flickr, cc by-nc 2.0
~Trent Gilliss, senior editor
I pitched Gordon Hempton for an interview with Krista Tippett after reading his interview with Leslie Goodman in The Sun. I had never thought about quiet in quite the way he pointed — not just as the absence of noise, but the presence of everything from that place. Quiet can be cacophonous!
Krista’s interview finally came to fruition and was one of the most delightfully quirky conversations I’ve experienced from behind the glass. Of course, the man who “tracks” sound for a living is a producer, but he’s truly been formed by his many years of listening to quiet. He’s passionate about his mission, and has his finger on the pulse of something most of us don’t contemplate until we’re faced with the idea. Then we know what he’s got his finger on
Source: beingblog
18-15n-77-30w:
“In my experience, it’s been my hair that’s been more of an issue than my skin color. People totally change the way they treat me when my hair is different. If my hair is straight, people don’t look twice. They think I’m Indian, so I guess I look safe. But if my hair is curly, all of sudden it’s an issue. I’m risky. ‘What is she? Is she Black? She can’t be Black. She has some mix of something, but she’s definitely got some Black.’”
—Sosena Solomon, “Ethiopian”
mixedamericanlife.wordpress.com
(via so-treu)
Source: 18-15n-77-30w
Raindog gets after it on the shaggy New Zealand wool.. (Taken with instagram)
A family outing at the MN State HS Wrestling Championships final. (Taken with Instagram at Xcel Energy Center)
beingblog:
“It’s not a war. It’s a massacre, an indiscriminate massacre.” Chilling words from a photojournalist on the ground in Syria.
From thepoliticalnotebook:
“As I’m talking to you now, they’re dying.” Injured Sunday Times photographer Paul Conroy gives Sky News an interview from his hospital bed. This is a really important interview. His descriptions of what’s happening in Homs are painful and terrible. He spoke of the scheduled regularity of the shelling, beginning with horrible predictability at 6:00 every morning.
I’ve worked in many war zones. I’ve never seen, or been, in shelling like this. It is a systematic … I’m an ex-artillery gunner so I can kind of follow the patterns… they’re systematically moving through neighborhoods with munitions that are used for battlefields. This is used in a couple of square kilometers.
He described the state of fear in Homs, calling it “beyond shell shock,” and the actions of Assad’s forces “absolutely indiscriminate,” with the intensity of the bombardments increasing daily. Conroy’s detailing of the inhumane conditions and the position of the Syrian citizens and the Free Syrian Army is important, because we don’t have as many journalists who have been able to tell us what it was like to be there as we have had elsewhere. He tells us that “The time for talking is actually over. Now, the massacre and the killing is at full tilt.”
I actually want to quote his entire interview about the people who are living without hope, food, or power and his conviction that we will look back on this massacre with incredible shame if we stand by and do nothing. In lieu of that, you must must must watch every bit of this interview.
~reblogged by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
Source: bit.ly
cabinporn:
Cabin in Swedish Lapland.
Photographed by Henrik Bonnevier.
Source: cabinporn
This setting for Bon Iver’s “Holocene” is otherworldly. Makes me long for the winter that never was. Take up that cup of black magic, turn up the volume, lean back, and play.