"I like the way you’re not afraid. You got the world planned in your mind. People say you cannot do, well they don’t know..."

Happiness

Sitting here, on this lonely dock 
Watch the rain play on the ocean top 
All the things I feel I need to say 
I can't explain in any other way 

I'd Rather Be With You (Joshua Radin)

"Distance is not for the fearful, it is for the bold. It's for those who are willing to spend a lot of time alone in exchange for a little time with the one they love. It's for those knowing a good thing when they see it, even if they don't see it nearly enough..."

You know it's worth it, when you have to fight to keep it.

NEW YORK CITY PART I 12/17-12/18

NEW YORK CITY PART II 12/27-12/31

"Fire like lightening, burnin' up the night. A smoke horizon-won't give up the fight..."

I prefer simply to just know all the answers.

There is a reassuring safety in predictability.

It's the not knowing...

It's. So. Fucking. Hard.

But then again...

"If you know what you're looking for, than you know exactly what you will find..."

Can't have it both ways.

“If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don’t want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it, too.”

“I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we’ll never know most of them. But even if we don’t have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.” 

-Perks.

I'll be the why to your because...
Because..

I am not perfect.
But

I know I'm worth it.
And

I gotta believe,

 there has to be a you
For every girl like me.

"Every Girl Like Me" (Sugarland)

Terrified.  

This is how I see the world...this is how I see nature...expressing in a simplistic way the most beautiful versions of human emotion...

Because one tree didn't think it could be alone... 

"It's So lonely when you don't even know yourself..." -Unknown

"Loneliness add beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes the night air smell better"

 -Henry Rollins

LANGUAGE...HAS CREATED THE WORD "LONELINESS" TO EXPRESS THE PAIN OF BEING ALONE. AND IT HAS CREATED THE WORD "SOLITUDE" TO EXPRESS THE GLORY OF BEING ALONE." -PAUL TILLICH

Tall enough to touch the sun...

"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth" -Buddha

"You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain." 

-Jim Morrison

In order to get a better perspective...everything is smaller then it looks, just depends on your view...

"Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems-but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible." -Salman Rushdie 

Expectant of greater things,
We try climbing -
Higher
And Higher;
An effort that costs us much,
Leaving us short of breath
To find only
The ground below is much prettier.
~Phillip Pulfrey, "Mountains"

"A heart that beats, an Incredible Machine. Made of blood and love and hope and lust and steam... Calling, calling, calling."

Whenever I fly alone, which for some reason I have done a lot lately, I find my brain drifting into overdrive and stumbling over a long chain of endless thoughts...It's something about being removed from the earth's surface where you really do feel mentally detached as well as physically removed from your day to day life. Of course today was no exception...Lots of things to process with life lately...and although I had one specific major thought on my mind today, as I do most days,  I let the music from the Ipod blast and my brain go...

And let me tell you: this song was rocking my world...simple. short. relevant. honest. inspiring.

An Incredible Machine.

 

Feels like I'm flying,
Wings made of light
Brand new and shining
Like a shot rung out through the night

Feels like i'm floating
Weightless in flight
Planets exploding as the soul and gravity fight

Lifted higher mercury skies above
Calling, water fire burning a sign of love

 Incredible Machine -Sugarland

Photos from  2a, Denver CO-Chicago IL, 12/5/10