Finally got a hold of a camera. I’ve been eager to document my life through the lens for a while. It’s a form of expression and way of extending myself that I’ve yet to explore for any reasonable amount of time. I’m hoping now is the time to give it the attention it deserves.
“Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.”
Tagged: photo
(H/T Greta)
Japandroids – Young Hearts Spark Fire
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We finished our old lives
Like we finished off the wine
Now we’re used to staying up all night
Two hearts beating
You can keep tomorrow
After tonight, we’re not gonna need it
Beat up
Beat down
Wet ground, but too drunk to feel it
We used to dream
Now we worry about dying
so much time – I realize this now. But it took reading a recent article in The Chronicle for it to really dawn on me. In it, the author discusses the shortcomings of a humanities education, namely that it trains students to criticize exceptionally well but not much else.
“In a humanities culture in which being smart often means being a critical unmasker, our students may become too good at showing how things don’t make sense. That very skill may diminish their capacity to find or create meaning and direction in the books they read and the world in which they live.”
It’s a behavior that’s entirely negative and, the author argues, counterproductive. I think I have to agree, at least partially. And I’m totally guilty of it. Read More
