I came across this great excerpt that Mark McKnight sent me a few months back and couldn’t help but share it. The word “Geosophy” is a compound of ‘ge’ (Greek for earth) and ‘sophia’ (Greek for knowledge). In Imagining the Future at Niagara Falls (1987), P. McGreevy refers to Geosophy as, “the study of the [...]
J.K. Rowling, author of the best-selling Harry Potter book series, delivered a great commencement address last week at Harvard University entitled, “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination.” If you haven’t already, see it, hear it, or read it here.
“When you know that all is light, you are enlightened.”
I had planned to spend a portion of my “winter break” reading a few of the books that have been sitting next to my bed for the last month or two – you know, the books that patiently wait their turn to be read but are often neglected due to school work. Well, unfortunately for [...]
There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. – Garry Winogrand
The pictures are there and you just take them. – Robert Capa
To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world — such are a few of the slightest pleasures of the independent, passionate, impartial natures which the tongue can but clumsily define. The spectator is a prince who everywhere rejoices in his incognito. – Charles Baudelaire
