"Life and death. Energy and peace. If I stopped today, it was still worth it. Even the terrible mistakes that I have made, and would have unmade if I could. The pains that have burned me and scarred my soul. It was worth it for having been allowed to walk where I've walked, which was to hell on earth, heaven on earth, back again, into, under, far in between, though it, in it and above..."
-GIA
"The opportunity to go on the road trip of a lifetime with Sean, which I'm so grateful to have the opportunity to work with him… He made everything so authentic and so real. We shot in all the real locations, went to all these different places. Saw these beautiful slices of America and these wonderful portraits of nature burned into my memory, thankfully. Days where we were camped out on the Grand Canyon on the Colorado River. We shot there for about a week or two. Just looking at the side of these cliffs and it's like, ‘That rock there is three billion years old. Wow.’ It's really an incredible, a very humbling experience.”"
-Emile Hirsch on Into The Wild
Do you hear me,
I'm talking to you
Across the water across the deep blue ocean
Under the open sky, oh my, baby I'm trying
Boy I hear you in my dreams
I feel your whisper across the sea
I keep you with me in my heart
You make it easier when life gets hard
I'm talking to you
Across the water across the deep blue ocean
Under the open sky, oh my, baby I'm trying
Boy I hear you in my dreams
I feel your whisper across the sea
I keep you with me in my heart
You make it easier when life gets hard
so I'm sailing through the sea
To an island where we'll meet
You'll hear the music fill the air
I'll put a flower in your hair
Though the breezes through trees
Move so pretty you're all I see
As the world keeps spinning round
You hold me right here right now
To an island where we'll meet
You'll hear the music fill the air
I'll put a flower in your hair
Though the breezes through trees
Move so pretty you're all I see
As the world keeps spinning round
You hold me right here right now
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| Sleeping Bear Dunes, MI The Most Beautiful Place in America |
"I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows."
I THINK I'VE FINALLY FOUND MY VOICE AGAIN...BEEN THINKING A LOT LATELY ABOUT LIFE, AS I OFTEN DO. PASSED MY SIX MONTH MARK OF MAKING IT IN MY LOVELY NYC...THE LONGEST RELATIONSHIP I HAVE EVER HAD. I REALLY THINK, AS I THINK MORE ABOUT IT, THAT THE CELEBRATION ISN'T SIMPLY SURVIVING THE TRIALS OF THE BIG CITY BUT I HAVE BEEN REALIZING A LOT HOW ALONE I AM. TRULY ALONE...IN THE SENSE THAT I MOVED TO A FOREIGN PLACE AND THE CLOSEST I WAS TO ANYONE I KNEW WAS AT MINIMUM A PLANE RIDE OR 8 HOUR DRIVE AWAY. THAT'S INTENSE. WHAT WAS I THINKING....NOT REALLY. IT WAS GOOD ON SO MANY LEVELS.
THE INSPIRATION FOR THE GREAT "JOURNEY" WAS CHRISTOPHER McCANDLESS...MORE SPECIFICALLY THE MOVIE INTO THE WILD AND THEN THE BOOK...WHICH IF YOU CANNOT TELL BY NOW I'M A LITTLE OBSESSED. BUT IT WAS HIM TO PUT INTO MY HEAD FIRST THE IDEA OF FINDING ULTIMATE FREEDOM IN EXPLORATION. AND I , AFTER THIS EXHAUSTING AND SELF-REFLECTIVE EXPERIENCE OF BEING ALONE FOR SIX MONTHS, I FEEL LIKE I UNDERSTAND HIM BETTER THEN I EVER HAVE BEFORE. I THINK HAD HE NOT PASSED AWAY...HAD HE RETURNED FROM HIS EXPERIENCES AND REPORTED ON HIS FINDINGS...HE WOULD HAVE SAID THAT IT WAS ALL WORTH IT. HE FOUND HIS TRUTH AND FREEDOM IN THE BEAUTY OF NATURE AND SURVIVING...LIVING OFF THE LAND. THE JOURNEY OF SELF-DISCOVERY CAN ONLY REALLY BE COMPLETE IF ONE THROWS OF THE DISTRACTIONS OF LIFE...MONEY, POLITICS, RELATIONSHIPS AND SPENDS TIME IN THE WILD. HE WOULD HAVE PREACHED ABOUT THE NECESSITY OF APPRECIATING THE BASICS OF SURVIVING AND A SIMPLICITY OF LIFE. BUT I ALSO THINK HE WOULD HAVE TALKED ABOUT HOW LONELY HE WAS...HOW WHILE RELATIONSHIPS AND DYSFUNCTION ARE A DISTRACTION AND A BURDEN....SOME TYPE OF INTERACTION IS NECESSARY AND ESSENTIAL BECAUSE YOU NEED LOVE. LOVE IS THE CORE OF EVERYTHING...TRUTH, BEAUTY, FREEDOM...THOSE ARE THINGS YOU CANNOT TRULY KNOW WITHOUT KNOWING LOVE.
THE INSPIRATION FOR THE GREAT "JOURNEY" WAS CHRISTOPHER McCANDLESS...MORE SPECIFICALLY THE MOVIE INTO THE WILD AND THEN THE BOOK...WHICH IF YOU CANNOT TELL BY NOW I'M A LITTLE OBSESSED. BUT IT WAS HIM TO PUT INTO MY HEAD FIRST THE IDEA OF FINDING ULTIMATE FREEDOM IN EXPLORATION. AND I , AFTER THIS EXHAUSTING AND SELF-REFLECTIVE EXPERIENCE OF BEING ALONE FOR SIX MONTHS, I FEEL LIKE I UNDERSTAND HIM BETTER THEN I EVER HAVE BEFORE. I THINK HAD HE NOT PASSED AWAY...HAD HE RETURNED FROM HIS EXPERIENCES AND REPORTED ON HIS FINDINGS...HE WOULD HAVE SAID THAT IT WAS ALL WORTH IT. HE FOUND HIS TRUTH AND FREEDOM IN THE BEAUTY OF NATURE AND SURVIVING...LIVING OFF THE LAND. THE JOURNEY OF SELF-DISCOVERY CAN ONLY REALLY BE COMPLETE IF ONE THROWS OF THE DISTRACTIONS OF LIFE...MONEY, POLITICS, RELATIONSHIPS AND SPENDS TIME IN THE WILD. HE WOULD HAVE PREACHED ABOUT THE NECESSITY OF APPRECIATING THE BASICS OF SURVIVING AND A SIMPLICITY OF LIFE. BUT I ALSO THINK HE WOULD HAVE TALKED ABOUT HOW LONELY HE WAS...HOW WHILE RELATIONSHIPS AND DYSFUNCTION ARE A DISTRACTION AND A BURDEN....SOME TYPE OF INTERACTION IS NECESSARY AND ESSENTIAL BECAUSE YOU NEED LOVE. LOVE IS THE CORE OF EVERYTHING...TRUTH, BEAUTY, FREEDOM...THOSE ARE THINGS YOU CANNOT TRULY KNOW WITHOUT KNOWING LOVE.
THIS IS WHAT I THINK...YOU CANNOT POSSESS AN ULTIMATE FREEDOM WITHOUT HAVING THE OBLIGATION OF SOCIAL INTERACTION. ULTIMATE FREEDOM IS WHEN YOU HAVE NO ONE AND NOTHING TELLING YOU WHAT TO DO AND WHEN TO DO IT, YOU THROW OFF THE CONSTRAINTS OF SOCIETY AND WHAT SOCIETY WANTS YOU TO BE AND YOU JUST ARE. YOU GO BACK TO THE BASICS. YOU SPEND LONG LONELY MEANINGFUL TIME WITH YOURSELF. HE FOUND ULTIMATE FREEDOM...HE TRAVELED INTO THE WILD AND HE LIVED OFF THE LAND AND ACHIEVED HIS GOAL...BUT I THINK ABOUT IT...IF HE WOULD HAVE MADE IT BACK OUT...MAYBE HE WOULD SAY IT WASN'T WORTH IT...WHAT HE REALLY WANTED TO KNOW WAS A PURITY OF LOVE AND A RENEWAL OF HOPE IN PEOPLE AND SOCIETY. BECAUSE I THINK IN THE END...MAYBE HE REALLY DIDN'T WANT TO DIE.