Growth...

"If it's not growing, it's going to die."
~Michael Eisner~

So lately I have been thinking about my current life as well as the future, and I have decided that the one thing that is extremely important to me is growth. This can include solving personal issues, completeing a difficult task, or even continuing my education. I want to continue learning so that I can better myself, my career, and my artwork. Now don't get me wrong, I do not want to have my nose stuck in a book, but I do want to continue to learn and always maintain my curiousity. And yes, maybe curiosity killed the cat, but idle hands are the Devil's playground.

"Though most of us don't hunt, our eyes are still the great monopolists of our senses. To taste or touch your enemy or your food, you have to be unnervingly close to it. To smell or hear it, you can risk being further off. But vision can rush through the fields and up the mountains, travel across time, country, and parsecs of outer space, and collect bushel baskets of information as it goes."

~ Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses ~

In my opinion, we must always keep our eyes open to enjoy the beauty of life. This is something that I have always felt, but that was reinforced through my experiences in my photography class. When one is looking through a camera, it is easier to see what we may miss because of the hustle and bustle of daily life. Photography allows and forces you to stop and look, and the more you do this, the easier it will become for you to notice the beauty in everyday. What about the times when we don't have our cameras to capture these moments? Thanks to technology we have our cell phone cameras, so I encourage all of you to slow down, look, and take a picture.