“What is it about solitude and nothingness that’s so abundant? … What if we didn’t restrict how far we could go? What if we kept pushing ourselves one step at a time?”
~ The Nomad, from Forge Motion Pictures
"TELL me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!—
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest! 5
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way; 10
But to act, that each to-morrow
Find us farther than to-day.
Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating 15
Funeral marches to the grave.
In the world’s broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle!
Be a hero in the strife! 20
Trust no Future, howe’er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act,—act in the living Present!
Heart within, and God o’erhead!
Lives of great men all remind us 25
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time;
Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o’er life’s solemn main, 30
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.
Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing, 35
Learn to labor and to wait."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life - What the Heart of the Young Man Said to the Psalmist (from the voice-over of the previous post)
Tidy little edit, the best part of which may be the reminder, at the end, of a great trip last year…
"The making of a great compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem."
John Cusack (as Rob Gordon), High Fidelity
Inspiration: Adam Van Koeverden (@vankayak) - “The Patriot” - Gives His Everything…for Olympic excellence, for himself, for Canada and - damn, dude, give the rest of us a break! - one helluva ripped body.
“Knock for Knock” (by RAPHA). Found via Steve Casimiro at Adventure Journal - he has a write-up about this there to which I’ll add nothing. Other than: Damn.
Not the biggest fan of the (covering) band, nor what Chris Martin does here but, still, this gets a FuckYeahColdplay from me. #MCA
(Source: youtube.com)
“In … On the Road … Kerouac had wanted to express ‘the soul that journeys along the open highway of America, in search of permanence, of values that will endure and not collapse.’”
From: J. Mansoor, “Ed Ruscha’s One-Way Street,” OCTOBER, Winter 2005, pp. 127–42.
The Sharp End
“What you pay attention to is what you experience, and what you experience becomes your life. You have to take a philosophical stance: What is important? What are we going to pay attention to? Because the answers will determine your world.”
"Eloquence is logic on fire."
Lyman Beecher
