variations | into abstraction (a silent place remix)

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variations | the beautiful things we see

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variations | the view across the lake (a picture never completes the thought remix)

Sometimes, no matter the view, the picture never completes the thought.

variations | a day in the life: contemplation at the lake

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A day at Lake Rabon.

variations | seconds from a waking sunrise with you

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full of reflection
the rising sun,
and your thoughts
just beyond
> waking in seconds

variations | a pattern of maps and trails

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without hesitation
i followed
my map
your trail
> to the point of dreaming

variations | biking (a maps, quotes, and trails remix)

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The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. ~ Christopher Morley

When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day’s sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze, blue jay’s call, ice melting and so on. This helps me transcend the traffic, ignore the clamorings of work, leave all the mind theaters behind and focus on nature instead. I still must abide by the rules of the road, of biking, of gravity. But I am mentally far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else’s heart. ~ Diane Ackerman

Life is like riding a bicycle – in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving. ~ Albert Einstein

After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go. You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that change and grow. ~ H.G. Wells, The Wheels of Chance

variations | a day in the life: 12pm on Paris Mountain

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It’s a beautiful day here at the base of Paris Mountain. The elevation is 1,200 feet and I plan to climb to 1,400 feet. It may not sound like much but the climb is about 2 miles. And the gradient is pretty steep. The downhill fast and sweeping. Last week, I was on the trails, and now the road. I have my ipod and will be listening Bvdub’s new cd “Born in Tokyo.”

variations | aboard our vessel, our dreams afloat

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we stood together
> at sea
our dreams afloat

variations | the beautiful things we dream together

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in a forever moment
an everlasting capture
… the intimacy
of a beautiful yearning