” ‘Not to find one’s way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance- nothing more,’ says the twentieth-century philosopher-essayist Walter Benjamin. ‘But to lose oneself in a city- as one loses oneself in a forest- that calls for quite a different schooling.’ To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade away. In Benjamin’s terms, to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery. And one does not get lost but loses oneself, with the implication that it is a conscious choice, a chosen surrender, a psychical state achievable through geography.” -Rebecca Solnit: A Field Guide to Getting Lost
“It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time. Often in a snow-storm, even by day, one will come out upon a well-known road and yet find it impossible to tell which way leads to the village. Though he knows that he has travelled it a thousand times, he cannot recognize a feature in it, but it is as strange to him as if it were a road in Siberia. By night, of course, the perplexity is infinitely greater. In our most trivial walks, we are constantly, though unconsciously, steering like pilots by certain well-known beacons and headlands, and if we go beyond our usual course we still carry in our minds the bearing of some neighboring cape; and not till we are completely lost, or turned round — for a man needs only to be turned round once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost — do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of nature. Every man has to learn the points of compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction. Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.” -Henry David Thoreau: Walden
“If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies… It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.” — Albert Einstein
The most beloved of my favorite colors, found in the deserts of Saudi Arabia.
http://www.princeton.edu/artofscience/gallery2006/view.php%3Fid=21.html
In science and art combined are what I believe to be the most beautiful things
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Lol. I know this old comic is supposed to make fun of early birds, but I can’t help but see it the other way as well (true loser/loner in me)
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WHY has this thought not occurred to me before?!?!?!?!?!?!?!???? Am I really that plain stupid?!?! -_-.
I genuinely enjoyed waking up ever so slowly to go grocery shopping alone before drawing class (the one time I ever did wake up extremely early).. so then why has it never occured to me that I could actually enjoy that every day? ugh sigh Lol
Better late than never :) aha
haha look at how round my face got. it’s so funny
http://clazzone.livejournal.com/18322.html
http://clazzone.livejournal.com/17546.html
This is my dream world! Endless clouds upon clouds under the entire open and empty sky
Kind of just floating along
SIGH
this week is going to suck
right before I butchered it. Poor Norah
3 hours, Prismacolor Nupastel
1/6th of my drawing final
I just wrote the second-longest e-mail of my life.. to my foundation advisor. In 613 words. Sigh, the longest e-mail I’ve ever written was to my mom.. in 1,695 words. Both of these in a sitting, each.
WHYY for my life can’t I write my papers this easily?! lol
I finally bought my first moleskine sketchbook. yayaya it’s trend-whore time
march 2009
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april 2009
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december 2008
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charcoal+kneaded eraser
10 minutes
I am very proud of this!
F MY LIFEEE! It’s a staph infection :’(
And I’m on medication, again.
Can all these weird, uncool, unnecessary things STOP HAPPENING TO ME PLEASE
