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Monthly Archives: November 2010
Visual Soliloquy #50 Today is your day, your mountain is waiting…
Today is your day, your mountain is waiting, so get on your way. – Dr Seuss
Posted in Everest 2010, Photography, Visual Soliloquy
Tagged 2010, climb, Everest, photography, Quotes, Travel
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Visual Soliloquy #49 Time is a sort of river of passing events…
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.–Marcus Aurelius
Posted in Canyons, Photography, Visual Soliloquy
Tagged 2010, Nature, photography, Quotes, Travel
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Visual Soliloquy #48 The road of life twists and turns…
The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.–Don Williams, Jr.
Posted in Canyons, Photography, Visual Soliloquy
Tagged 2010, Nature, photography, Quotes, Travel
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Visual Soliloquy #47 The idea is to write it so that people hear it…
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart. –Maya Angelou
Visual Soliloquy #46 Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.
Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance. –Arnold H. Glasow
Visual Soliloquy #45 Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal…
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed. –Wayne Dyer
Wanted: Hat Options for the Hat Trick of the Americas
G’Day, The countdown to the Hat Trick of the Americas has begun and there is one critical decision left to be answered? Which hat should I wear for the climb? Which hat will be called to service on the volcano … Continue reading
Visual Soliloquy #44 When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but…
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. –Helen Keller
Posted in Everest 2010, Everest-007, Photography, Visual Soliloquy
Tagged 2010, Nepal, photography, Quotes
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Visual Soliloquy #43 You can grunt and heave, sweat and strain, wear yourself out…
You can grunt and heave, sweat and strain, wear yourself out, and unless you simply forget about it and step up, you won’t even get off the ground. — Mike Borghoff.
Visual Soliloquy #42
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things. –Pablo Picasso
Nose to the Grindstone
Buenos Domingo, Marian and I are stepping up both our physical training and our Spanish language training in the weeks leading up to our departure for Guatemala and Tajumulco. It’s time to put our noses to the grindstone! We’ve been … Continue reading
Posted in Tajumulco
Tagged 2010, Alan Arnette, cold, Fogo Island, Hat Trick of the Americas, nose, run, Vinson
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Visual Soliloquy #41
Just don’t give up on trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong. –Ella Fitzgerald
Posted in Everest 2010, Photography, Visual Soliloquy
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Visual Soliloquy #40
…I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realised, than lord among those without dreams and desires. – Kahlil Gibran
Visual Soliloquy #39
Your feet will bring you to where your heart is. – Irish Proverb
Visual Soliloquy #38
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine. –Morris West
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Visual Soliloquy #37
Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success. –Bo Bennett
Visual Soliloquy #36
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. –Carl Sandburg
Visual Soliloquy #35
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. –Thomas Merton
Visual Soliloquy #34
Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted. –Unknown
Congratulations to Team Canada
An amazing evening of hockey in front of a sell out crowd in St. John’s. A night not soon forgotten! Team Canada wins the Four Nations Cup in overtime over Team USA.
Barefoot Ascent of PEI’s Highest Point
A few weeks back-well rather a month or so ago, Jane Macgrath and I had a grand hike and talk up and around Signal Hill. It was great to reconnect and share stories and adventures from the academe. We got … Continue reading
Visual Soliloquy #33
I believe that whether a person follows any religion or not is unimportant, he or she must have a good heart, a warm heart. –Dalai Lama
Posted in Kilimanjaro, Photography, Visual Soliloquy
Tagged 2010, photography, Quotes
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Remembering Anew
I was almost out the door when I heard Marian playing something on her computer. It caught my attention and I came over to see what was playing. As the music and images played, the tears began to cascade down … Continue reading
Visual Soliloquy #32
I wear a poppy so that others can see That I respect those who died for me The bright red shows of the blood that was shed For me and for others who live far ahead
Visual Soliloquy #31
Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought. –Alexander Pope And from Rick Mercer…Remember to Remember.
Lessons in Seeing
How do I find the words to describe a week that spanned from the stunningly deep silence of canyon wanderings to the vibrant, almost abusive, cacophonous stimulation of Las Vegas? From a gentle dawning light of day dancing on ever … Continue reading
Visual Soliloquy #30
Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance. –Brian Tracy
Posted in Newfoundland, Photography, Visual Soliloquy
Tagged 2010, photography, Quotes
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Visual Soliloquy #29
The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web. –Edwin Way Teale
Visual Soliloquy #28
Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. –Zhuangzi
Visual Soliloquy #27
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Visual Soliloquy #26
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do. –Helen Keller