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02.10.12

02.10.12

13 April 2012 • 02.10.12 minneapolis mn mom dad matt lil matt mle family

02.10.12 You want the truth, of course. You want me to put two and two together. But two and two doesn’t necessarily get you the truth. Two and two equals a voice outside the window. Two and two equals the wind. The living bird is not its labeled bones. —Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

02.10.12

You want the truth, of course. You want me to put two and two together. But two and two doesn’t necessarily get you the truth. Two and two equals a voice outside the window. Two and two equals the wind. The living bird is not its labeled bones.

—Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

13 April 2012 • 02.10.12 minneapolis mn celts devon ian mle mom dad family kathy dan

02.09.12 They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. —Andy Warhol

02.09.12

They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

—Andy Warhol

13 April 2012 • 02.09.12 minneapolis mn devon mle mom dad archie kevin rory mark family

Forgot to take pic - 01.04.12 Circa Summer ‘05 Like most others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser. I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I shared a dark suspicion that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actors, kidding ourselves along on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between these two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going. —Hunter S Thompson

Forgot to take pic - 01.04.12

Circa Summer ‘05

Like most others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser. I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I shared a dark suspicion that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actors, kidding ourselves along on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between these two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going.

—Hunter S Thompson

14 March 2012 • 01.04.12 wc nd dad badlands trnp

07.29.11

07.29.11

21 September 2011 • 07.29.11 msp mn wedding dad

07.28.11 The truth is we’re all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. —paraphrased from Bill Hicks

07.28.11

The truth is we’re all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively.

—paraphrased from Bill Hicks

21 September 2011 • 07.28.11 msp mn mom dad dennis maryann babysitter

06.25.82 Enlightenment is not the permanent absence of everything that is considered spiritually negative (pain, suffering, confusion, doubt, anger, addiction, the sense of individuality, and so forth), but rather, enlightenment is the absence of the one who cares about being enlightened. —Joan Tollifson, “Enlightenment”

06.25.82

Enlightenment is not the permanent absence of everything that is considered spiritually negative (pain, suffering, confusion, doubt, anger, addiction, the sense of individuality, and so forth), but rather, enlightenment is the absence of the one who cares about being enlightened.

—Joan Tollifson, “Enlightenment”

12 September 2011 • 07.13.11 clinton mi dad bananaseat bike

10/12/10 I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue. — Moliere

10/12/10

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

— Moliere

15 October 2010 • 10.12.10 dad pdx proust mississippi

10/9/10 Things are getting weird around here again, she said. How can you tell, I said. Just look at them, she said. They’re all acting normal. You know how much effort that takes? —Brian Andreas, Story People

10/9/10

Things are getting weird around here again, she said. How can you tell, I said. Just look at them, she said. They’re all acting normal. You know how much effort that takes?

—Brian Andreas, Story People

11 October 2010 • 10.09.10 tacoma matt & co dad mom

8/6/10 Indeed, you were kicked off the edge of a precipice when you were born, and it’s no help to cling to the rocks falling with you.  If you are afraid, be afraid. The point is to get with it, to let it take over—fear, ghosts, pains, transcience, dissolution and all.  And then comes the hitherto unbelievable surprise: you don’t die because you were never born.  You had just forgotten who you are. —Alan Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

8/6/10

Indeed, you were kicked off the edge of a precipice when you were born, and it’s no help to cling to the rocks falling with you.  If you are afraid, be afraid. The point is to get with it, to let it take over—fear, ghosts, pains, transcience, dissolution and all.  And then comes the hitherto unbelievable surprise: you don’t die because you were never born.  You had just forgotten who you are.

—Alan Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

10 August 2010 • 8/6/10 wc parents mom dad nd roadtrip