Yoshitomo Nara captures frustration and discontent with such simplicity…it’s comical! His art manages to always bring a smile to my face. Nara channels that inner child…that stubbornness…that disregard for authority…in those piercing eyes. I’ve been able to see the works of many artists that I admire…but Nara continues to allude me…one day maybe our path will cross. Yes?

Denise Schindler! World’s first Paralympic cyclist to use a 3D-printed carbon-fibre prosthesis! Fascinating design process! Amazing athlete!

The Mad Hatter: Have I gone mad?
Alice: I’m afraid so. You’re entirely bonkers. But I’ll tell you a secret. All the best people are.

I dunno Stephen. I still think I’m a better photographer than you. 🙂 Even with my cheap android phone. It’s all in the eye and the composition. Thank you though for always planning amazing trips. I laugh. I cry. I travel to places I’ve never been. I see things I’ve only dreamed about and experience emotions that I’ve kept deeply hidden. You are patient with me and allow me to turn over rocks and examine what is underneath. I eat green eggs and ham. I eat bugs. You’ve been a fantastic partner to climb mountains with and I thank you for everything you are and more. You’re a good man.

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

~ Robert Frost

My sweet. She never rests.

somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose

or if your wish be to close me,i and
my life will shut very beautifully,suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility:whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands

~ e.e. cummings

occasione amissa.

The purpose of human life
is to serve and to show compassion
and the will to help others.

~ Albert Schweitzer

 

A hike to Mount Erskine in Mount Erskine Provincial Park on Salt Spring Island, Gulf Islands, B.C. July 23, 2016. Photo credit: Stephen Hui. Copyright (c) 2016 Stephen Hui. stephenhui.net/. (FYI: Avoid ascending Erskine from the exposed side as we did pictured below. Not family or dog friendly. It’s a scramble to the top with little room for error and nothing really substantial to hold on to except dirt and dry grass. If conditions are wet, I would definitely avoid! Views are epic though!)