27 December 2008


there she is. my new beautiful girl. my gift from santa.
I will soon capture the soul of the middle east. t-2wks.
until then, i'll be content to experiment with capturing the heart of good ol' iowa.

17 December 2008

deserve your dream




“Deserve your dream.” ~Octavio Paz

"patience is passion tamed" ~Lyman Abbott
"be the change you want to see in the world" ~Mahatma Gandhi

“What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.” ~Carlos Fuentes

15 December 2008


Our job in this lifetime
is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be,

but
to find out who we already are
and become it.

~Steven Pressfield