Words Of Wisdom

Hey,
I believe it has been awhile since I last posted something, or at least it feels like it's been awhile. I'm still thinking about, and working my way through those big decisions that are looming over me. I'm still taking pictures...and busy with work.
I came across some great quotes recently, of which I'll share with you.

One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am—a reluctant enthusiast...a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much; I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards. [Edward Abbey, "Joy, Shipmates, Joy!"]

Here is another great quote, it's one of my favorites.

The most beautiful and most profound experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.
( Albert Einstein - The Merging of Spirit and Science)

Ahh, I love those great thoughts from those great men! If you read them and did not feel any inspiration or enlightenment of sorts, give 'em another read!... =)
I love this time of year, summer always brings out a lot of emotion from me. I love it for so many reasons; summer rainstorms, the sound of crickets, night hikes, camping, reading books out on my back patio like 'Into The Wild', summer boyfriends...[insert 'Grease' lyrics], and most of all it reminds me of my grandma Lola's house in Willard, roasting hotdogs in her backyard with cousins.

I've also been thinking a lot about the future, some of my goals and dreams seem so distant, others I believe will come about because of my patriarchal blessing. But I've never been able to really comprehend the future, and it's never been something I like to think about very much. Which I guess is good, because it's best to live in the present anyway. I mostly feel lost in confliction between so many things right now. Oy! it's tireing...(I was gonna say agsauhsting, but I'm not sure if that's the correct spelling. How'd I do?) ;)
Hope you enjoyed some of those wise words, and to add some of my own;.....music, exercise, and laughter are some of the best cures for confliction blues! And faith in prayer.
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