Saturday, March 28, 2009

I think that an old carpenter's hands are one of the most honest things in the world.

Thursday, March 26, 2009


I think that not being able to make a car payment isn't quite the same as not having money do buy food or clothes.
Maybe what other countries hate about America isn't that we are rich and powerful, it's that we are spoiled and arrogant... maybe we need another depression to remind us what real poverty is.

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Thought for the day

I was thinking of how much time I spend on the computer and how it is nearly as much of an extension of me as my arms or legs. Then there's my cell phone, iPod, stereo and TV. I am sure that the way my life is right now that I couldn't live without them...but often I wish I could.

Chihuly


Closeup shot inside the Seaform Pavilion, part of Dale Chihuly's Bridge of Glass, in Tacoma, Washington... just one more thing I miss about Washington State.

Found Art


Sometimes the best art is accidental.

-the wall below the bicycle rack at Pike Place Market, Seattle, WA

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Hipness


Cannonball Adderley said in his introduction on the Cannonball Adderley Sextet in New York album that you cannot decide to be hip... you are either hip or you aren't. "Hipness" the tenor man said "isn't a state of mind: it's a fact of life".

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Dad

The best thing anyone's given me, was from my dad. He married my mother and made her happy but more than that, he helped make me a better man, a better father and a better husband. Thanks dad. You are awesome.

Saturday, March 7, 2009

Acceptance

A few quotes from M. Scott Peck in his book "The Road Less Traveled"

"Life is difficult.
This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult--once we truly understand and accept it--then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters."

"Life is a series of problems.
Do we want to moan about them or solve them?
Without discipline we can solve nothing."

“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”

~ M. Scott Peck

Near Mt. Baker

It was tough getting to this spot near Mt. Baker. The harder some things are to attain, the more rewarding I think.

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Coffee Fiend


I like this painting. Looks like me!
Also, this artist does other great stuff. Check it out... pretty cool.
Kim Robertson

Wednesday, March 4, 2009


In the liner notes of Junior Parker's album "You don't have to be black to love the blues", producer Sonny Lester pays tribute for the concept here to Levy’s rye bread. “Just like the cover of this album says, Chinese kids like watermelon, Irish like bagels, black people like Jewish rye bread and today everybody loves the blues”

Monday, March 2, 2009

Sto lavorando

I used to get tried of trying to explain how I was working when it seemed I was doing nothing. As a designer I can tell you that if you are not an artist - painter, designer, architect, musician - it's nearly impossible to explain. But this story explains it as well as anything.

"...a visiting Prince came into Michelangelo's studio and found the master staring at a single 18-foot block of marble. Then he knew the rumors were true that Michelangelo had come in every day for the past four months, stared at the marble, and gone home for his supper. So the Prince asked the obvious, "What are you doing?" And Michelangelo turned around and looked at him and whispered, "Sto lavorando". "I'm working." Three years later, that block of marble was the Statue of David."