resort (a few summer sketches)

construction

little stories

a place for thanksgiving 

here

[scroll down a bit: circa the 2005 Mercury News]

table: victoria thorne design

photo: rick e. martin

i felt the potential gain was worth the risk

"I candidly admit that I knowingly and deliberately left the planned working area
out of TV coverage to examine and photograph the interior crater walls
for possible bedrock exposure or other useful information.

I felt the potential gain was worth the risk."

-neil armstrong

the photograph is one that has great meaning for me: although it is not a moment of risk, it is a moment of connection and love. actually: love is the riskiest thing around. risk something today, maybe? theresa said it need only be something small. just one small thing. for love.  

she also said this: "at the moment of death we will not be judged according to the number of good deeds we have done or by the diplomas we have received in our lifetime: we will be judged according to the love we have put into our work."

time flies

2005: room for a boy  

ha'penny

via john darcy noble

and the carmel doll shop

grateful

how glory goes

photos: vt

knowing that this made us part

abilities

one night last april

victoria gate

pliny

non multa, sed multum

what to do

No one can alter truth.

What we can and should do is to search for truth and then serve it when we have found it.

-Maximilian Kolbe

Kolbe refused to see an enemy in any man.

His goodness caused those whom one might

not expect to do so to assume a more human

stance. For this reason, I have been reading

quite a bit about him lately. What better

lesson might there be?

That- if we choose to- we can go beyond ourselves

and reach for truth.

That- when we find it- we will know what to do with it.

true

only love is creative

-maximilian kolbe

the beginning

vivian thorne and kevin chaves

voladores vineyard, paso robles

on the eighteenth of june, 2011

margot hartford took these photos- i'm meeting with her tomorrow, as we're

planning on working on a few projects together. in the meantime, wanted to

begin to share a bit of the marvelous wealth. these are just a few, and only

screen shots. must add that some favorites are saved for later- stay tuned.

the intention of doing

some people wake up & first thing in the morning

they center themselves: prayer, meditation, some sort

of devotion. a handful of my closest friends do this. i often

intend to. it takes five minutes, maybe ten. (or a bit more.)

not much time. but the people who practice it, those i know-

that bit of time they spend- it's clear that that time changes

their lives. (it's in their eyes; a peace others don't have. it's

in their lives, too. but that's another story.)

in the latest issue of rolling stone, the dalai lama mentions

this practice (it's something he has talked about often-

there's a good interview in the magazine).

devotion. & to something bigger.

to live it, though?

how, exactly?

not

just to intend

to live it.

somewhere in madrid saw an english translation (post

title) of something picasso said. tracked it down here.

more (Pablo Picasso to Marius de Zayus) follows:

"In art intentions are not sufficient

and, as we say in Spanish:

love must be proved by facts

and not by reasons.

What one does is what counts,

and not what one has the intention of doing."

(brought to these thoughts today by this)

stones: saint-germain-en-laye, july '11

a little story

dress: small earth vintage

spoon & textile: nettie's

shoes: topsy

flowers: for nellie