Elsewhere: No Status Quo
Time is short and written word is not a forte, therefore: Stream of thought:
No Status Quo. Doing your own thing and being happy with that. No need to please others, only yourself. That is how you do your best work. The small is the large. Change a small thing and it changes big things. So doing your own thing, being your own critic, is rejecting destructive things like nationalism and organized religion and organized thought. When you reject organized thought and reject the need to please someone else, you are yourself, and you do great things because you are doing what you love. You are free. The thinker is the thought. No more division.
DAH:
“i remember a lot of my friends getting really really old when they turned 30…lost every ounce of idealism etc….this was a wake up call to me…i was shocked….couldn’t believe it…i.e. the very best actor in our drama school was selling insurance by the time he was 31….
point is, some people grow narrow early, some expand as they go along…”
viva expansionistas!!!!”
Yes, VIVA!!!
Happy to appear in the Self Portraits gallery (number 30 for thirty years old and for my mum who, unlike me, believes in numbers! Still waiting for the lottery mum!)
Also happy about winning a prize for photographs submitted to a photography event where photos were taken around one area and edited down to 20 submissions, all in a period of 34 hours. I thank David for the advice of ‘just looking for good pictures’ when out photographing. It let me get loose and it let a story come out.
Also happy to find out about Michael Nichols’ Last Place On Earth.
This forum is always an inspiration, and has been a catalyst. I enjoy looking at the great variety of (visual and written!) work here—thank you!
I give my congratulations and appreciation to all who photograph themselves and the world around them. You make world better!
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