Red Bored

(April 25, 2008)

“It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.” –Alan Cohen

The Long Boarder

(April 21, 2008)



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

Nosara

(April 20, 2008)



“I shall go the way of the open sea, To the lands I knew before you came, And the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me, The memory of your name” –Laurence Hope

Gone Fishin’

(March 29, 2008)



“Folks seem to have just landed in them usually-their paths were laid that way, as you put it. But I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didn’t. And if they had, we shouldn’t know, because they’d been forgotten. We hear about those who just went on..I wonder what sort of tale we’ve fallen into?” –Frodo (Lord of the Rings)

Bow and Arrows

(March 24, 2008)

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“When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies with yourself.” –Tecumseh Shawnee Chief

Pro Skateboarder in Training

(March 19, 2008)



“The Church proclaims that there is one human destiny and that it is found in relation to one focal figure, Jesus; but also that what this human destiny means cannot be worked out without ‘communion’, a relation of profound and costly involvement with each other and receiving from each other. This and this alone is what saves the proclamation of Christ’s uniqueness from being a piece of ideological tyranny.” –Rowan Williams

Scrabble

(February 27, 2008)

“Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.” –Baltasar Gracian

18 Miles

(February 23, 2008)
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“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception” –Aldous Huxley

Table Tennis

(February 9, 2008)


“Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.” –Isaac Bashevis Singer

In Search of a Bear Cave

(December 28, 2007)




“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.” –G. K. Chesterton

“You can’t test courage cautiously.” –Annie Dillard