collecting words

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. (Orson Welles)

2010-01-01T10:00:00.007-05:00

Happy New Year!!!!

With the new year I have reached both of my personal goals I set for myself when I began this blog. I wanted to reach 100 posts or post on this blog for 6 months. I reached the 100 posts mark first and chose to keep going so I could reach both. I will not be adding anything new to this blog but will leave it up for anyone that wishes to come back and view what I have gathered here. This blog has helped me focus on the wonderful, positive aspects of life that surrounds us daily but can often be missed in the rush of moving through this world.

Much love to everyone.

Bike to the Beach

2009-12-20T00:51:00.000-05:00

Bike to the Beach from Mike Matas on Vimeo.

Browsing Digital Art

2009-12-17T00:48:00.000-05:00

deviantART

A blog is merely a tool that lets you do anything from change the world to share your shopping list. (unknown)

2009-12-13T00:45:00.000-05:00

Freshness Factor Five Thousand

Confessions of a Misplaced Southern Belle

25 Magnificent Modern Day Movie Illustrations

2009-12-11T00:39:00.000-05:00

What these artists have done so well is take a particular scene or character and create a visual representation of the movie.

40 Examples of Incredible Photo Manipulation

2009-12-10T00:34:00.000-05:00

Photo manipulations are a great source for inspiration, generally because designers are able to express their creativity through various aspects of design.

Hey Ya! - OutKast

2009-12-08T00:33:00.000-05:00

Start Your Own Poem in Your Pocket Day Event

2009-12-07T00:29:00.002-05:00

Poem in Your Pocket Day - Poetry.org

Rogue River National Forest

2009-12-06T13:54:00.001-05:00

Rogue River National Forest from Mike Matas on Vimeo.

All You Need Is Love

2009-12-04T20:28:00.001-05:00

quotes

2009-12-02T18:25:00.003-05:00

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.
---George Lois

Art has never been made while thinking of art.
---Niko Stumpo

Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
---Sigmund Freud

7 Ways to Grow Your Own Food

2009-12-01T23:07:00.002-05:00

Stop getting steamed and grow some food to steam!

Thanksgiving Timelapse

2009-11-29T17:20:00.000-05:00

Thanksgiving Timelapse from Jared Foster on Vimeo.

100 Outstanding and Inspirational Infrared Photos

2009-11-25T16:49:00.002-05:00

Infrared photography produces some of the most amazing photographs on the planet.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. (Plato)

2009-11-22T12:36:00.002-05:00

Free Verse Project

One eye sees, the other feels. (Paul Klee)

2009-11-18T18:52:00.003-05:00

Short Paul Klee biography and sample of his work

Welcome to PaulKlee.com

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. (G.B. Stern)

2009-11-17T22:30:00.000-05:00

Creative Ways to Say "Thank You"

Help Ease Emotional Stress

2009-11-14T22:39:00.001-05:00

New Evidence That Dark Chocolate Helps Ease Emotional Stress

Mountain Light

2009-11-10T22:32:00.001-05:00

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

Life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours. (Anonymous)

2009-11-08T10:43:00.003-05:00

West Africa's last giraffes make surprise comeback

For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else. (Winston Churchill)

2009-11-07T17:33:00.000-05:00

Daily Positive Thoughts

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. (Jean Houston)

2009-11-04T23:30:00.000-05:00

// kaleidoscope dowry \\ from VOLKAN ERGEN on Vimeo.

quotes

2009-11-01T15:06:00.003-05:00

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
---Bertrand Russell

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
---Rene Descartes

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. (Buddha)

2009-10-30T17:21:00.001-04:00

The Meditation Podcast

60 Stunning Satellite Photos of Earth

2009-10-29T19:25:00.004-04:00

"When we look at our planet from outer space and appreciate the reality of its beauty from such an incredible and rarely seen perspective."

The Happiest Turtle Ever

2009-10-28T18:32:00.001-04:00

Happiest Turtle Ever from Henrik Edelbring on Vimeo.

Live the high life on the cheap...

2009-10-27T20:16:00.001-04:00

BrokeAss Gourmet

Pumpkin Carving - Fun for Everyone

2009-10-26T23:47:00.002-04:00

Pumpkin Carving Decorations - Family Fun

Halloween Pumpkin Carving Templates

100+ Creative Pumpkin Carving Ideas

Snack-O'-Lanterns

Here Comes the Sun

2009-10-25T10:03:00.000-04:00

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. (Orson Scott Card)

2009-10-24T14:46:00.002-04:00

Happy Living - The Beginner Gardening Issue

quotes

2009-10-23T17:47:00.001-04:00

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
---Barry LePatner

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
---Alan Kay

Toronto Lightening Storm

2009-10-19T21:32:00.000-04:00

Toronto Lightning Storm from Sam Javanrouh on Vimeo.

Shop Co-ops

2009-10-15T22:56:00.002-04:00

Sustainable Table

LocalHarvest

Co-op Directory Listing

45 Brilliant Examples of Photo Manipulation Art

2009-10-14T17:14:00.003-04:00

"Here are 45 incredible examples of Photo manipulated images from extremely talented Photoshop artists."

Positive Affirmations

2009-10-13T19:02:00.001-04:00

Top 10 List of Positive Affirmations

Celebrate World Habitat Day

2009-10-05T18:41:00.001-04:00

Habitat for Humanity

If You Want to Sing Out Sing Out

2009-10-04T17:31:00.002-04:00

quotes

2009-10-01T19:45:00.002-04:00

We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.
---Anais Nin

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
---Mark Twain

20 Stunning Panoramic Landscapes

2009-09-30T17:49:00.001-04:00

"I’ve always been fascinated by how 360° panoramic photos draw one into the scene. It’s almost like you’re really there and taking it all in."

Istanbul City Portrait

2009-09-29T19:00:00.001-04:00

Istanbul city portrait, timelapse movie in HDTV from Max Moos on Vimeo.

How to Grow Your Own Food Anywhere

2009-09-28T18:48:00.003-04:00

Vegetables in small spaces without spending a lot of money.

quotes

2009-09-22T19:11:00.003-04:00

There is no remedy for love but to love more.
---Henry David Thoreau

The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.
---Scott Adams

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul. (Plato)

2009-09-19T14:41:00.002-04:00

Travelin' Wilbers performance of Rain at Pastimes in Sarasota

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. (Chinese Proverb)

2009-09-16T19:10:00.002-04:00

Beginner Gardening: Flower Power

There are always flowers for those who want to see them. (Henri Matisse)

2009-09-14T22:18:00.004-04:00

A discussion with nothing but positive comments and or posts

One Day Like This - Elbow

2009-09-13T17:51:00.000-04:00

Elbow /// One Day Like This from MUZIEKTELEVISIE.NL on Vimeo.

Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life. ( Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin)

2009-09-12T12:08:00.005-04:00

Benefits of Cooking Dinner at Home

Simple Daily Recipes

Real Simple - Food & Recipes

All the Same to Me - Anya Marina

2009-09-09T00:01:00.004-04:00

Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. (Chinese Proverb)

2009-09-08T17:46:00.006-04:00

Happy News - Can Tea Reduce Stress?

50 Dazzling Examples of Polar Panorama Photography

2009-09-07T12:27:00.006-04:00

Polar panoramas, also known as stereographic projections or ‘little planets’, are spectacular images that are created out of panoramic photos.

While the effects are quite stunning, these images are actually very easy for anyone to produce.

quotes

2009-09-06T11:15:00.004-04:00

It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
---Nikolai Gogol

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
---Walt Whitman

Holiday - Madonna

2009-09-05T16:06:00.005-04:00

To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep. (Joan Klempner)

2009-09-04T17:45:00.003-04:00

Happy Living - Better Sleep

The Restorative Benefits of Sleep

Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
---Thomas Dekker

New York City Portrait

2009-09-02T00:00:00.001-04:00

New York city portrait, HD time lapse, April 2006, music by Moby from Max Moos on Vimeo.

Floss Daily and Live to be 100

2009-09-01T18:34:00.004-04:00

Seven Simple Steps to Help You Live Longer

Farmers' Markets

2009-08-31T00:01:00.002-04:00

Why Shop Farmers' Markets

Find a Farmers' Market Near you

My Local Farmers' Marke t

quotes

2009-08-30T15:36:00.002-04:00

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
---Norman Vincent Peale

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
---Sarah Ban Breathnach

Determined

2009-08-30T00:30:00.001-04:00

Building community through food

2009-08-29T11:52:00.007-04:00

NYC's Cool New Backyard Farms: Growing More Than Just Produce from SkeeterNYC on Vimeo.

Sustainable Table - An Introduction to Sustainablity

I get by with a little help from my friends. (John Lennon )

2009-08-28T00:30:00.000-04:00

Spend more time with friends

Ideas for hanging out with your friends

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. (Plato)

2009-08-27T20:36:00.003-04:00

Advancing Human Rights and Alleviating Suffering

Urban Farms Renew Communities

2009-08-26T17:50:00.003-04:00

Community gardens are sprouting up in inner cities, giving residents access to fresh produce.

If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one. (Cavett Robert)

2009-08-25T17:47:00.001-04:00

How to think positive

Ooh Child - The Five Stairsteps

2009-08-24T23:40:00.001-04:00

Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.

2009-08-23T12:20:00.008-04:00

Was melody invented?

I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.
---Nietzsche

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.
---Kurt Vonnegut

Dance like no one's watching.
---Crystal Boyd

the upside of the downturn

2009-08-18T21:55:00.002-04:00

Recessionwire's - 8 Things We're Glad the Recession Killed

Watch Less TV

2009-08-17T12:01:00.005-04:00

So far 1,843 want to watch less TV

Why television is worth not watching

Giving up TV

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
---Groucho Marx

quotes

2009-08-16T15:42:00.007-04:00

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.
---Golda Meir

As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
---Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

The Pen Story

2009-08-15T15:18:00.000-04:00

The PEN Story from PENStory on Vimeo.

Individualism is out, individuation and community is in.

2009-08-14T17:31:00.001-04:00

off-grid

quote

2009-08-11T12:03:00.004-04:00

Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.
---Piero Ferrucci

The White Stripes - We're Going to be Friends

2009-08-10T23:21:00.001-04:00

Creativity is a drug I cannot live without. (Cecil B. DeMille)

2009-08-06T00:24:00.002-04:00

Another Way to Visit the Louvre

Explore Modern Art

Jose Parla

Conor Harrington

Stop Buying Stuff

2009-07-31T01:31:00.002-04:00

Stop Buying Stuff Magazine

Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.
---Anthony D'Angelo

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.
---Eric Hoffer

Niagara Falls in Motion

2009-07-30T11:25:00.001-04:00

Niagara Falls in Motion from Matthew Wartman on Vimeo.

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. (Confucius)

2009-07-25T23:46:00.003-04:00

How and Why Music Therapy is Effective

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
---Berthold Auerbach

Music Relaxation

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
---Maya Angelou

There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. (Vicki Baum)

2009-07-24T17:36:00.000-04:00

Sour

2009-07-22T21:36:00.001-04:00

SOUR / 日々の音色 (Hibi no Neiro) MV from Magico Nakamura on Vimeo.

Because it Matters

2009-07-20T18:38:00.002-04:00

Because it Matters.net

What you will do matters. All you need is to do it.
---Judy Grahn

Life is Beautiful by Stephen Niebauer

2009-07-18T00:33:00.001-04:00

Life is Beautiful from Stephen Niebauer on Vimeo.

The Art of Gavin Duvet

2009-07-16T22:03:00.004-04:00

the pine wood, the log fire, the clubs and the spell

Spark - Over the Rhine

2009-07-15T20:16:00.001-04:00

quotes

2009-07-14T02:31:00.003-04:00

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
---Pablo Picasso

The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.
---Louis Kahn

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
---Thomas Merton

Art is the proper task of life.
---Friedrich Nietzche

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
---George Bernard Shaw

A Tribute to KODACHROME: A Photography Icon

2009-07-13T01:34:00.002-04:00

Kodak is retiring KODACHROME Film, concluding its 74-year run. My knowledge on this type of film is very limited but I do know the most important fact about it. Many beautiful pictures have been shot on kodachrome.

Click here to see a slide show of fantastic examples.

Peace begins with a smile. (Mother Teresa)

2009-07-11T02:14:00.004-04:00

Smile More Than Frown

G. Love - Peace, Love, and Happiness

2009-07-10T01:20:00.001-04:00

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. (Fuller)

2009-07-09T00:01:00.004-04:00

There's nothing that bring a smile to my face faster than the creativity of others...

Daily Paintings

.Beaux Gestes with Love.

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.
---Nietzche

quotes

2009-07-08T00:30:00.004-04:00

"I've become less interested in leaving my mark on the world than in just not making it any worse."
---Clark Collis

"Have fun at all costs. This is all we can do in order to insure a more secure future for ourselves and loved ones. Imagine if everyone set out each day with intricate designs on Fun. I don't think Wall Street would necessarily shut down, but it would be immeasurably less brutal, don't you think?"
---Brett Gillen

Two new ways to view your days

2009-07-07T11:13:00.003-04:00

Project 365

Photo Time Capsule

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

---Annie Dillard

quotes

2009-07-06T01:17:00.002-04:00

Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.
---Dr. David M. Burns

I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success.
---Michael Jordan

50 Things You Can Reuse

2009-07-05T15:52:00.003-04:00

Reuse Everything

Ani Difranco - When I'm Gone (Phil Ochs cover)

2009-07-04T11:18:00.001-04:00

Locks of Love

2009-07-03T11:35:00.005-04:00

About Locks of Love

How to Donate

Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given.
---Deepak Chopra

Ryan Adams - Stawberry Wine

2009-07-02T11:30:00.001-04:00

The Miniature Earth

2009-07-01T12:40:00.001-04:00

quotes

2009-06-30T00:00:00.005-04:00

Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.
---John Le Carre

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
---Theophrastus

The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind.

2009-06-29T01:27:00.006-04:00

Aromatherapy for Beginners

Aromatherapy Tips for Beginners

Nothing Really Matters - Madonna

2009-06-28T11:43:00.001-04:00

Happiness only real when shared. (last words of Chris McCandless)

2009-06-27T12:21:00.003-04:00

Happiness: 3 amazing tips from the world's oldest case study

Earth laughs in flowers. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

2009-06-26T22:21:00.002-04:00