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June 2008
Saturday 28
Spring Salad.
Spring Salad with Asparagus and Radishes:
Friday 27
Dinner.
Thursday 26
We are Holyoke. My Blurb Book, We are Holyoke, We are Family arrived today:
So far, though, I haven't sold as many copies of the book as I would have liked but I plan to re-market it this Sunday.
Wednesday 25
Nadine.
Tuesday 24
Brides Love Bruce. I finished my new Blurb book, a wedding portfolio, to give to beauty salons and spas, etc.
Monday 23
The Moments that Take Our Breath Away.
The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness. We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things. We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less. These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete... Remember; spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever. Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side. Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a cent. Remember, to say, 'I love you' to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you. Re member to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there again. Give time to love, give time to speak! And give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind. AND ALWAYS REMEMBER: Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.~
George Carlin ~ May 12, 1937 - June 22, 2008Sunday 22
Stanley Park.
Saturday 21
Rachel and Pam. Spent two fun hours photographing Rachel and Pam in Northampton this morning.
Friday 20
Thursday 19
We Are Holyoke. Exciting to see the book designed and ready for purchase.
Wednesday 18
We Are Holyoke. I finished my first Blurb Book today, "We Are Holyoke." It will go on sale tomorrow. Next; Brides/Weddings.
"Make visible what, without you, might have never been seen."
~Robert BressonTuesday 17
Blurb Books. I downloaded Blurb software today and these are my current book projects:
- We Are Family
- Angels
- Brides
- Pease Party
- Times Square
- Flowers
Other ideas:
- Mt Tom
- Lower Mill Pond
- Nadine
- Recipes
Monday 16
Berkshire Arts Festival.
Sunday 15
Father's Day. A father thinks of his children and remembers his father.
Saturday 14
Beauty.
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty
that constitutes the romantic character of art.~Walter Pater
Friday 13
The Lower Mill Pond.
Thursday 12
Katrina.
Wednesday 11
But What of Beauty.
Tuesday 10
The Lower Mill Pond.
Monday 09
The Lower Mill Pond.
Sunday 08
The Alchemist.
Saturday 07
Your Heart's Desire.
Friday 06
Thursday 05
Soul. At Ben's art opening tonight, Alberto said "Bruce, you photograph the soul of a person."
Wednesday 04
Rain.
Tuesday 03
Thomas Bewick.
Each picture told a story; mysterious often to my undeveloped understanding and imperfect feelings, yet ever profoundly interesting: as interesting as the tales Bessie sometimes narrated on winter evenings. and when, having brought her ironing-table to the nursery hearth, she allowed us to sit about it, and. fed our eager attention with passages of love and adventure taken from old fairy tales and other ballads.
'With Bewick on my knee, I was then happy: happy at least in my way. I feared nothing but interruption, and that came too soon.
~Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
Monday 02
The Portrait and The Garden. There are the portraits of Amelia from Friday night, there are the words Alberto spoke and there are the pinks outside sparkling.
We must cultivate our garden.
~Voltaire
Emmet Fox writes in his essay, "Your Heart's Desire:"
An old adage says: "God has a plan for every man, and He has one for you," and this is absolutely correct. Your real problem, therefore, in fact the only problem that you ever have, is to find your true place in life. Find that, and everything else will follow almost automatically. You will be perfectly happy; and upon happiness, health will follow. You will be really prosperous, You will have all the supply that you require to meet your need, and this means that you will have perfect freedom; for poverty and freedom cannot go together. Until you do find your true place in life, however, you never will be really happy, no matter how much money or distinction you may acquire; and until you are happy, you will be neither healthy nor free. Sunday 01
Snapshots.
I find that I have painted my life---things happening in my life---
without knowing.~Georgia O'Keeffe
Our lives are snapshots, lived moment by moment and who we are becomes clearer through what we create.
