As you recognize that you already own the wholeness you seek, and no one outside you can give you more than you already are, dysfunctional situations will evaporate like bad dreams exposed to the morning sun. Alan Cohen

Surfers off the Huntington Beach pier yesterday.

You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf. Jon Kabat-Zinn

No, there’s no ~real~ ice here in Southern California…but there is ice in my fridge. This is what happens when the iced tea freezes over and I am there with my trusty camera

To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt. Susan Sontag

This is a light fixture in a bar in Portland, Oregon. The name of the bar was “Crush”.

Drinking beer doesn’t make you fat, It makes you lean….
Against bars, tables, chairs, and poles. Anonymous quotes

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The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. M. Scott Peck