and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.” –Katharine Butler Hathaway
I’m going to start planning my trip to ICELAND after I tackle Vegas next month. Iceland is where you feel the heavens and forget that you’re still on Earth. It’ll be magical! :)
Look at this picture perfect restaurant. Almost too pretty to actually eat in. I can’t wait to be in Vegas in November. And then I can’t wait to book my next trip. I need to travel again.
I give thanks to the truly wonderful, irreplaceable people in my life. Thank you.
So I’ll just leave you with a classic sailing song by Styx.
“I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.”
“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me… Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.”
“I was worth over $1,000,000 when I was 23, and over $10,000,000 when I was 24, and over $100,000,000 when I was 25, and it wasn’t that important because I never did it for the money.”
“When I hire somebody really senior, competence is the ante. They have to be really smart. But the real issue for me is, are they going to fall in love with Apple? Because if they fall in love with Apple, everything else will take care of itself. They’ll want to do what’s best for Apple, not what’s best for them, what’s best for Steve, or anybody else.”
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
This one looks like she has little jewels on the edge of her wings. :) Available as an 8×10 at my Etsy Shop!
I am so intrigued by butterflies and the whole metamorphosis process. I think it’s incredible. I went to a Butterfly Conservatory and stepped into a garden of beautiful, colourful butterflies flying in all directions. I’ve always struggled to capture butterflies on camera because they are hardly ever still and when they’re flying, they do so in this crazy pattern that makes your eyes all googly if you tried to follow it. So this conservatory was heaven – butterflies hanging out and socializing (is that why they call it ‘social butterflies’?) and landing on your shoulders to take a break and say hello. :)
Beautiful couple – congratulations, guys, and thank you for the opportunity to capture your love on camera! The wind and weather were not in our favour, but we did it! :) Hope you love these!!!
Encourage challenges and embrace the times at work when you worry about whether or not you can handle a big task or if you are capable of exceeding expectations on a project or if you are able to step up to the plate and do this and that better than the last person. Embrace the times at work when you question your own skill set or admire another’s strengths. If you’re not feeling challenged, then make moves and find challenges before your brain deteriorates without you realizing it! Be scared sometimes. Have anxiety sometimes. Be stressed out sometimes. It only means you’re learning and developing.
This is one of the most breathtaking sights in Barcelona, second to the Sagrada Familia and I remember it so vividly because we climbed uphill for three hours to get to the top (we took the back roads so that we’d see other things as we were climbing). All while getting eaten alive by vicious mosquitoes. Nevertheless, it was stunning on the way down. You’d look back at it every few steps down and it was a different view every time. This shot still was not taken from the very bottom. It gets more beautiful than this but my mosquito bites were killing me so badly that I had to rush back to the hostel to put afterbite on them. I think I had eight ginormous, unattractive bites. Wouldn’t you like to know? :) Buy this on Etsy! :)
