we carpe diem

The Mag Mile tulips are out! #summer #chicago #latergram...

Thu, 09 May 2013 09:39:43 -0400

The Mag Mile tulips are out! #summer #chicago #latergram #nofilter

Summer! #chicago (at Clarence Buckingham Memorial Fountain)

Thu, 09 May 2013 09:39:32 -0400

Summer! #chicago (at Clarence Buckingham Memorial Fountain)

It’s a good day for #bubbles

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:46:00 -0400

It’s a good day for #bubbles

"I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make..."

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 13:50:54 -0400

““I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try.””

- Roger Ebert

#frightenedrabbit at the #riviera #latergram (at Riviera...

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 08:52:18 -0400

#frightenedrabbit at the #riviera #latergram (at Riviera Theatre)

The 13 Most Important Things I've Learned Thus Far

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 08:54:00 -0400

The 13 Most Important Things I've Learned Thus Far

Video

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 08:46:21 -0400

"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of..."

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 18:51:09 -0400

““Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.””

- W.B. Yeats

"The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your..."

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 08:48:15 -0400

““The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.””

- Alan Alda

"Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes..."

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:27:31 -0400

““Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.””

- Albert Einstein

#jukeboxtheghost at the #metro (at Metro)

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 20:37:00 -0400

#jukeboxtheghost at the #metro (at Metro)

#sunset #evanston (at Technological Institute)

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 18:41:40 -0500

#sunset #evanston (at Technological Institute)

Well I’ve been in love with love And the idea of Something...

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 10:13:14 -0500

Well I’ve been in love with love
And the idea of
Something binding us together
You know that love is strong enough.

Excerpt from "Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space" by Carl Sagan

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 09:49:15 -0500

“Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.”

"Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we..."

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 08:45:11 -0500

““Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.””

- Thich Nhat Hanh

#chicago (at Signature Room at the 95th)

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 08:01:18 -0500

#chicago (at Signature Room at the 95th)

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 08:00:39 -0500

#chicago (at Signature Room at the 95th)

"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well..."

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 08:54:50 -0500

““Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ‘Wow! What a Ride!’””

- Hunter S. Thompson

"If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and..."

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 08:28:46 -0500

““If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.””

- Mel Brooks

"Poetry is what happens when nothing else can."

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 08:46:01 -0500

““Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.””

- Charles Bukowski