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November 10, 2009

Mountain Light

Timescapes Timelapse: Mountain Light from Tom @ Timescapes on Vimeo.

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Hope is a waking dream. (Aristotle)

I originally began this blog as a means to share my writing with friends. (A handful of those original posts are still included.) Starting my own blog increased my interest in other blogs and sites, so I began searching and reading. I found too many blogs and sites, particularly during these difficult economic times, focusing on things, stressing “money saving” ideas on the unnecessary, or admonishing negative feelings while providing no substantial alternatives. These sites designed to “inspire” or “help” left me disappointed and empty. Written by people that I believe had the best intentions but just fell short by overlooking the most important aspects of life and humanity.

Now this blog is designed to help fill that emptiness for me by showcasing those positive facets of life and humanity missing in my search. My hope is that it will do the same for someone else too.

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      • One eye sees, the other feels. (Paul Klee)
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lists (I shut my eyes in order to see. - Gauguin)

I believe it is ideas, actions, and connections that define us, inspire us, and bring us the truest happiness. Even the simplest of these are far more powerful than any one thing. They help us to feel linked and accepted. They bring us hope. They provide us with a reason. It is because of this I created the lists below. These lists include music, movies, books, and websites that offer those feelings to me. Explore the items on my lists further if you find something new or of interest to you, but more importantly I encourage you to create your own lists.

Places (Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you - Amos)

  • Adyashanti
  • Art Crimes
  • Carter Center
  • Cat Party
  • Communites in Schools
  • CONSTANT SIEGE
  • dream is destiny
  • good news
  • Habitat for Humanity
  • Happy News
  • Humane Society
  • National Geographic
  • One Spirit
  • Opportunities for Student Action
  • Pandora (free internet radio)
  • pavement drawings
  • Poets
  • project implicit
  • stand strong
  • The Food Not Bombs Movement
  • Thich Nhat Hanh
  • tolerance
  • TreeHugger
  • WSLR

Music (After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -Huxley)

  • Adele
  • Aesop Rock
  • Ainslie Henderson
  • Ani Difranco
  • Anthony Hamilton
  • Aretha Franklin
  • BIG
  • Carpenters
  • Corinne Bailey Rae
  • Curtis Mayfield
  • Elvis Perkins
  • Fugees
  • G Love
  • Joni Mitchell
  • Kayne West
  • Mingus
  • Mos Def
  • Nina Simone
  • Nirvana
  • Otis Redding
  • Over the Rhine
  • Pete Seeger
  • Prince
  • Rachael Yamagata
  • Ray Charles
  • Ray Lamontagne
  • Rza
  • Sam Cooke
  • Stevie Wonder
  • Sublime
  • Talib Kweli
  • The Roots
  • The Wailers
  • Tom Waits
  • Tracy Chapman
  • Van Morrison
  • Weezer
  • Willie Nelson
  • Wu-Tang

Movies (Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel. -Levant)

  • 13 conversations about one thing
  • 21 Grams
  • A Beautiful Mind
  • Amelie
  • American Beauty
  • American History X
  • Big Fish
  • Cadillac Records
  • Charlie Bartlett
  • Children of Men
  • Chocolat
  • Dave Chappelle’s Block Party
  • Dead Poets Society
  • Donnie Darko
  • Everything is Illuminated
  • F**k: A Documentary
  • Fearless
  • Fight Club
  • Fur
  • Garden State
  • Hotel Rwanda
  • In Her Shoes
  • It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
  • Lars and the Real Girl
  • Leaving Las Vegas
  • Less Than Zero
  • Little Miss Sunshine
  • Office Space
  • Ray
  • Requiem for a Dream
  • Run, Fat Boy, Run
  • Saved
  • Sex and Lucia
  • Shawshank Redemption
  • Shopgirl
  • Shortbus
  • Sliding Doors
  • Sling Blade
  • Stranger than Fiction
  • The Hurricane
  • The Muppet Movie
  • The Royal Tenenbaums
  • The Virgin Suicides
  • The Wizard of Oz
  • Trading Places
  • UHF
  • V for Vendetta
  • Walk the Line
  • What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?
  • Wristcutters: A Love Story

Books (There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love. -Morley)

  • A Light in the Attic - Shel Silverstein
  • Art and Fear - Bayles and Orland
  • Ishamel - Daniel Quinn
  • junior - Macaulay Culkin
  • Living Buddha, Living Christ - Thich Nhat Hanh
  • Mutt - Rodney Mullen
  • The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
  • The Beatles Anthology
  • The Wild Trees - Richard Preston
  • Where the Sidewalk ends - Shel Silverstein

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janelle arlene
and i try to laugh at whatever life brings, cuz when i look down i just miss all the good stuff, when i look up i just trip over things --ani
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