12.06.14 Brian. Ojai Valley Inn.
“Here’s to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
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12.05.14 Ojai Valley Inn.
“When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. Then find someone who’s life is givin’ them vodka and have a party!” – Ron White
12.04.14 PCH Near Hearst Castle.
“Photography helps people to see.” – Berenice Abbott
12.03.14 Somewhere off PCH.
“Not cry. Fly.
“I can’t fly,” Bran said. “I can’t, I can’t…”
How do you know? Have you ever tried?
The voice was high and thin. Bran looked around to see where it was coming from. A crow was spiraling down with him, just out of touch, following him as he fell. “Help me,” he said.
I’m trying, the crow replied…
The crow took to the air and flapped around Bran’s hand.
“You have wings,” Bran pointed out.
Maybe you do too.
Bran felt along his shoulders, groping for feathers.
There are different kinds of wings, the crow said…
Bran was falling faster than ever. The grey mists howled around him as he plunged toward the earth below. “What are you doing to me?” he asked the crow, tearful.
Teaching you how to fly.
“I can’t fly!”
You’re flying right now.
“I’m falling!”
Every flight begins with a fall, the crow said. Look down.” – George R.R. Martin
12.02.14 Julie. Los Feliz.
Booties have two cheeks. You have two hands. They were meant to be worshipped. Get to work!
12.01.14 UC Berkeley.
“The university occupies 1,232 acres on the eastern side of the San Francisco Bay with the central campus resting on 178 acres. Berkeley is the flagship institution of the 10 campus University of California system…Established in 1868 as the result of the merger of the private College of California and the public Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College in Oakland, Berkeley is the oldest institution in the UC system…Berkeley faculty, alumni, and researchers have won 72 Nobel Prizes…Along with Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley researchers have discovered 16 chemical elements in total – more than any other university in the world…Berkeley physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was the scientific director of the Manhattan Project that developed the first atomic bomb in the world, which he personally headquartered at Los Alamos, New Mexico, during World War II.” – Wikipedia
11.30.14 Cannery Row.
11.28.14 Salinas.
“The work praises the man.” – Proverb
11.27.14 Huxley. Thanksgiving.
“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.” – Oprah Winfrey
11.26.14 West Coast.
“Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove? Surely all this is not without meaning. And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all.” – Herman Melville
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