the all encompassing lessons. "One day while walking across a field a man encountered a hungry tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself down over the edge..." This world scares and amazes me at the same time. Perseverance is a great virtue and can be the catalyst for great accomplishments. Its impact is profound. Its power immeasurable. There is unlimited knowledge at my finger tips and in the hands of all my friends. Another war at play Another woman restrained Another case of hate “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again;..." I don’t pre-judge as expected from you to me more and more i step to new - never sure, i choose to do; ‘being’ demands that the individual choose to create their own life in the image of the ’ideal’. along the path i stumble, crossing tangential streams of consciousness, threatened with transcendentalism. "Only the vine sustained him. Two mice, one white and one black, little by little started to gnaw away the vine. The man saw a luscious strawberry near him. Grasping the vine with one hand, he picked the strawberry with the other. How sweet it tasted!" - a Zen Story Everything in life is a designable option. This feeling of 'boundary-lessness' was euphoric, orgasmic even. Windows were opened, Doors were broken, and Gates were flung up. a documented observation of interesting activity alongside abnormalities. and as we coagulate I read a line in a novel "she started a gallery on a shoestring". I thought "I have a shoestring", and immediately created annhomanART. Having lived in 17 different houses, 5 different countries, attended 8 different schools and visited 20 countries in the past 28 years I connect my experiences and observations from It's been said that better men have lived before me and I'm simply treading down similar paths. the best i can; Because want, need, ignorance, evil and despair are generally distanced from me, I can afford the luxury of higher thought. You can’t grin? Then glare and bare it. I was fortunate to be born into a time of cultural fusion. I have been remaking culture since old enough to rebel, and I co-create an emergent new culture as everyday practice. U probably get at least 10 people in your mind That fit this description and leave all else behind we don't see eye-to-eye from head-to-toe nor cradle-to-grave Life is beautiful With the trail of flowers Life, with the freshness of showers, Life, with colourful rainbows Life, with lush and lusty hedgerows It's as if I have experienced the First Amendment of local ordinance in my new home called cyberspace. as art; My life as an Iranian AND a Canadian has shaped who I am as a person Funny, the associations a restless mind makes, the vain indulgences of a wounded heart. I grew up in the country and long for fields, forests, streams, and wildlife. because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause... I’m aware of the immediate impact of my design, research, and business work. Skeptical, yet hoping that this time it might not happen again like before. and cannot be fooled by ones poor act. There is so much to do in this world, it's sometimes overwhelming, but it's also what makes possibility beautiful... and beauty possible. Please blow my mind, right now; give me something better to work with. I was without the solace I desired, but then For instance, if you were to ask me “who I am?”, that would be very hard to answer. And so I pay attention to the small and temporary, "...who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” Theodore Roosevelt – 26th American President cold hard data by definition. You’re teaching me about the tell’s. They reveal that I give myself away too easily. Culturally I am French Canadian, English and Irish but that is not who I am; it is merely how I can be categorized. if we do not familiarize ourselves with the 'ying', and embrace it, there can be no 'yang'! northern folk, shot down, beat up, brainstormed, tracked, kerned and ringling learned, graduate, chicago bound, unwound, heart broken, picked up, fwis design, The interconnections between the two opposing view points. If you have, then you'd understand Be it in science, art, philosophy, politics, law or any other field... in whatever way is most appropriate/practical/welcome/possible; Can experience ever show up as a whole, or am I / are we usually showing up and connecting through an interest, an outcome, an object of a process? Dreams and ambitions paint that picturesque of a hopeful, energetic, ambitious child in a wilderness.