The evil in the world comes almost always from ignorance, and goodwill can cause as much damage as ill-will if it is not enlightened. People are more often good than bad, though in fact that is not the question. But they are more or less ignorant and this is what one calls vice or virtue, the most appalling vice being the ignorance that thinks it knows everything and which consequently authorizes itself to kill. The murderer’s soul is blind, and there is no true goodness or fine love without the greatest possible degree of clear-sightedness.
– Albert Camus / The Plague
Went around the apartment looking for some inspiration. Some what??? Well, yeah as I believe I need to develop an eye to details that lie around. This is where the motto of the post is, what lies around, lies around; it just needs to be shot!
Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne’er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.
Not one of all the purple Host
Who took the Flag today
Can tell the definition
So clear of Victory
As he defeated-dying
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Burst agonized and clear!
[sws_blockquote_endquote align=”left” cite=” Neil deGrasse Tyson / From Death by Black Hole, p. 107″ quotestyle=”style02″] [I]f an alien lands on your front lawn and extends an appendage as a gesture of greeting, before you get friendly, toss it an eightball. If the appendage explodes, then the alien was probably made of antimatter. If not, then you can proceed to take it to your leader. [/sws_blockquote_endquote]
While digging deep in my “photo archive”, which is the horrible mess of files spread on more than three external hard drives, I came across the below photos of Old Aleppo. I still remember the day I took the photos as if it was yesterday. And in one the photos, the one showing the traditional Friday breakfast “Fool” or Fava Beans, I can still state the sourness of the lemon juice and the salt with the onion slices every time I look at the photos.
When bored, shoot what’s around you. Make bokehlicious photos. A couple of photos with a lot of bokeh!!! Go read more and see them in details!
A wonderful use of one’s time when the flight is delayed. Using an iPhone and a trolley bag as a tripod, this genius has filmed All By Myself in a brand new fashion. Enjoy!
[sws_blockquote_endquote align=”left” cite=”Elayne Boosler” quotestyle=”style02″] I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three. [/sws_blockquote_endquote]
