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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

07.29.11

07.29.11

21 September 2011 • 07.29.11 msp mom reception wedding mn glasses

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

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

8/5/10 Taking, therefore, a longer and wider view of things, the entire project of “conquering nature” appears more and more of a mirage—an increase in the pace of living without fundamental change of position, just as the Red Queen suggested.  But technical progress becomes a way of stalling faster and faster because of the basic illusion that  man and nature, the organism and the environment, the controller and the controlled are quite different things.  We might “conquer” nature if we could first, or at the same time, conquer our own nature, though we do not see that human nature and “outside” nature are all of a piece.  In the same way, we do not see that “I” as the knower and controller am the same fellow as “myself” as something to be known and controlled. —Alan Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

8/5/10

Taking, therefore, a longer and wider view of things, the entire project of “conquering nature” appears more and more of a mirage—an increase in the pace of living without fundamental change of position, just as the Red Queen suggested.  But technical progress becomes a way of stalling faster and faster because of the basic illusion that  man and nature, the organism and the environment, the controller and the controlled are quite different things.  We might “conquer” nature if we could first, or at the same time, conquer our own nature, though we do not see that human nature and “outside” nature are all of a piece.  In the same way, we do not see that “I” as the knower and controller am the same fellow as “myself” as something to be known and controlled.

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

10 August 2010 • 8/5/10 wc nd backyard mom garden

8/2/10

8/2/10

3 August 2010 • 8/2/10 wc nd mom garden