just a boy

& his friend...

pure feeling

2:00 to 2:12 is what i'm alive for.  seriously.  honestly.
it's why i'm still here to write words into the darkness of the internet.
that absolute raw emotion that knows no words, no images,
it is just feeling.
it is raw and real and it can be painful or joyful or more often
it can be beyond emotional categorization.
that
is
being
alive.

that is being human.
that is what we're here to experience.
that
right
there.

i am free now

life sounds like!

didn't they say that

only love
will win
in the end

grow baby, grow!

my head is an animal

to go another day

settle down baby here your love has been

"tomorrow

is a new day. we will start fresh. i am confident that it will be a better day"

when oceans rise

"take me deeper than my feet could ever wander
and my faith will be made stronger
in the presence of my savior

I will call upon your name
and keep my eyes above the waves
my soul will rest in your embrace
i am yours and you are mine"

trees spiraling making music?!?!

"This is an excerpt from the record Years, created by Bartholomäus Traubeck, which features seven recordings from different Austrian trees including Oak, Maple, Walnut, and Beech. What you are hearing is an Ash tree’s year ring data. Every tree sounds vastly unique due to varying characteristics of the rings, such as strength, thickness and rate of growth.

Keep in mind that the tree rings are being translated into the language of music, rather than sounding musical in and of themselves." (more here)

unrelated?

kiki smith, tattoos, and someone named tift

"somehow the combination of the beauty marks and the ink on her body, I thought I could tattoo her beauty marks onto me.  And then I was at another artist’s house and they had a little bit of paint on their fingers.  And I thought, I could take a mark from somebody else’s body and put it on my body and then I would remember. That way you would have this weird little reminder to them..." 

(go here to hear the beautiful little snippet of a conversation)

click 'listen' in red above photo on website

relax

 

Lyz Cooper, founder of the British Academy of Sound Therapy notes:

"While listening, your heart rate gradually comes to match that beat. It is important that the song is eight minutes long because it takes about five minutes for this process, known as entrainment, to occur. The fall in heart rate also leads to a fall in blood pressure. The harmonic intervals - or gaps between notes - have been chosen to create a feeling of euphoria and comfort. And there is no repeating melody, which allows your brain to completely switch off because you are no longer trying to predict what is coming next.
Instead, there are random chimes, which helps to induce a deeper sense of relaxation. The final element is the low, whooshing sounds and hums that are like buddhist chants. High tones stimulate but these low tones put you in a trance-like state."

it's a shot in the dark

William Wegman, Dusted (1988)

after acknowledging the weight, the pressure, the inconvenience...she asked, why not just move over half a foot?  it's just dust,  just shake it off...

yeah, I needed to hear that.

(I'm happy to sacrifice audio quality for that smile,

aren't you?)

e: it's interesting that we don't remember pain..I know I was in pain yesterday, but I can't remember the   feeling of the pain
c: yeah, because it was physical.  we remember things that are attached emotionally, and you remember that you were in pain because feeling pain is an emotional response
e: I think you're right...I don't think I can remember any pure feeling...