Life in the Middle

Thomas S. Szasz

2007-02-08T04:20:45Z

“Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily...”

life

2007-01-08T22:46:54Z

If you don't figure out how to pass on what you've learned, it dies with you.

IMG_6822.jpg

2006-11-02T17:03:18Z

IMG_6822.jpg, originally uploaded by lifeinthemiddlephoto.

Flickr Uploadr

2006-10-20T02:09:01Z

IMG_9548.jpg, originally uploaded by lifeinthemiddlephoto.

....such an amazing tool. Made me fall in love with the site all over again. Uploading lots of pics soon. Russia and the Czech Republic went up in the last day or so.

Anonymous

2006-10-17T05:33:14Z

"What you are searching for, find in yourself. Then share it with others."

Tao Te Ching

2006-09-30T18:24:39Z

“In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.”

Nelson Mandela

2006-09-23T22:32:59Z

When freed from prison, former South African president Nelson Mandela said, "Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

Thomas Carlyle

2006-09-23T22:24:38Z

“Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together"

Plato

2006-09-23T22:24:13Z

“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge”

Helen Luke

2006-09-23T22:23:47Z

“If we come to the point of retaining a sense of a proportion in the midst of all the smallest as well as in the most profound of human emotions, we shall also discover that at the center of every experience is the laughter of God”

Walter Lippmann

2006-09-23T22:23:24Z

"Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other."

Unknown

2006-09-23T10:56:41Z

“Love is when you shed a tear and still want him, it's when he ignores you and you still love him, it's when he loves another but you still smile and say I'm happy for you, when all you really do is cry.”

Neil Gaiman

2006-09-23T10:55:04Z

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.”

Albert Einstein

2006-09-23T10:49:11Z

"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value."

Albert Einstein

2006-09-23T10:47:10Z

"The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible."

IMG_6670

2006-09-21T01:35:54Z

IMG_6670, originally uploaded by lifeinthemiddlephoto.

Just back from a shotgun American roadtrip. Drove from Madison, WI to the southernmost point in Texas (Brownsville) for the wedding of one of my closest friends, Elka. Was a beautiful service on the border town and the reception was just across the line in Mexico.

Also visited another close friend, Kat and her little boy Soren, in Austin.

If you like, I've uploaded some albums to Flickr. I've edited them all (except the wedding) to keep them entertaining. Just follow these links...

======
'06 Roadtrip (some great ones from Austin & inside the Texas capital, a few surprises in San Antonio, Dallas and Oklahoma City.... and some of my personal favorites from along Route 66 & the Illinois prairie
http://www.flickr.com/photos/17045433@N00/sets/72157594293117248/

======
Kat, Wes & Soren in Austin
http://www.flickr.com/photos/17045433@N00/sets/72157594293028254/

======
Exploring the streets in Matamoros, Mexico
http://www.flickr.com/photos/17045433@N00/sets/72157594290063665/

======
Elka & Ken's wedding
http://www.flickr.com/photos/17045433@N00/sets/72157594289892475/

Flickr Update

2006-09-20T00:29:45Z

IMG_6010, originally uploaded by lifeinthemiddlephoto.

Posting sets from the road now. Sitting in Oklahoma, and just finished building a set for Mexico & of Elka's wedding. Will also put up one of Kat & her baby as well as pictures from the road soon.... but until then thought you'd enjoy these ;)

Ethan Embry

2006-09-15T16:39:09Z

"You can't think about things you want to change. Just be yourself."

Congratulatiuons Elka!

2006-09-11T04:36:53Z

IMG_8471, originally uploaded by lifeinthemiddlephoto.

well, off to texas & mexico for one of my best friend's wedding.
yeah, so, i cry at weddings.

Harriet Tubman

2006-09-04T12:52:00Z

"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world."

Welcome to life, MGHA

2006-09-01T21:44:58Z

Farabaugh, originally uploaded by lifeinthemiddlephoto.

This has been an experience that has greatly enriched my perspective on hope, community, confidence, management, business & general sense of right and wrong... Not to mention that ability to trust oneself. I've launched and am steering the Madison Gay Hockey Association into an inaugural season that eclipses what any GHA before it has achieved. My friend Wade mentioned the phrase, "standing on the shoulders of giants," and for once I've found a context that helped me understand these words. What has happened here wouldn't have been possible without what has come before us. Thank you, to whoever has contributed to the courage and optimism that has given me the fuel to do this. I love life.

http://www.madisongayhockey.org/

Joanne Kathleen Rowling

2006-09-01T19:07:49Z

"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

2006-08-22T15:12:52Z

" Nothing external to you has any power over you."

IMG_5751

2006-07-26T19:58:30Z

IMG_5751, originally uploaded by lifeinthemiddlephoto.

Posted a set to Flickr of the last few days in Chicago with my friend Ricky from San Francisco, in town for a .com convention.

Swedish Proverb

2006-07-15T19:20:22Z

Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.