Art Garden Turtle
A little garden turtle statue from the Chestnut Park in Philadelphia. It's an art thing!
I woke up one morning and decided to build a life instead of making a living.
They say if you want a popular blog you need a focus, I did that once and it burnt me out.
I like to hang out with my wife and kids, read, trade stocks and FOREX, take photographs (on film and digital), write poetry (haiku mostly), camp, hike, play GO, and bake when I have time. Plus I do all other kinds of rambling shit.
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Words that seek the truth of beauty
"What is important is to keep our mind high in the world of true understanding, and returning to the world of our daily experience to seek therein the truth of beauty. No matter what we may be doing at a given moment, we must not forget that it has a bearing upon our everlasting self which is poetry" - Basho
How true is this? Every action we do can become a thing of beauty if we let it be so. Make your life an act of beauty and poetry.
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