tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90259345635919546932024-02-18T22:25:22.668-06:00 Bohemian GenesisBailey Bowershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11147596304112612859noreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025934563591954693.post-44814544623136084752016-06-30T11:31:00.002-05:002016-07-07T09:23:19.953-05:00Get to Work<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I've been experiencing a lot of writer's block lately, as exemplified by my long period of inactivity.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Inspiration is a funny thing; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is an essential fiber of life and human existence, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">yet it is fleeting; aloof; A sort of fabled fairy creature.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now and then we feel her all around us, buzzing in our ears with an energy that charges our very souls, sending us off into a seemingly endless sea of creation...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And then, just as quickly she arrived, she is gone; leaving us on the open ocean in a rickety boat with no life vest. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">During these latter times, it is easy to want to quit-- </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to call in the air rescue team to come pull us off of that damned boat and get us home and into some warm clothes. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Because being outwardly abandoned in unfamiliar territory is not comfortable for anyone. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It can feel risky, lonely, bleak. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But, as humans who wish to live creative lives (in whatever field or magnitude that may be), we must keep rowing that boat into the great abyss; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Keep working, keep creating, even without that fairy of inspiration on our shoulder.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Because one day, when we are least expecting it,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">she will show up again, and light up the dark sea-sky with her vivacity. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And we must be there to catch her and use her; in fact it is our job to be there.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I loved this passage from a book I recently finished called Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert:</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"I have a friend in Italy who's an independent filmmaker. Many years ago, back when he was an angry young man, he wrote a letter to his hero, the great German director Werner Herzog. My friend poured out his heart in this letter, complaining to Herzog about how badly his career was going, how nobody liked his movies, how difficult it had become to make films in a world where nobody cares, where everything is so expensive, where there is no funding for the arts, where public tastes have run to the vulgar and the commercial.....</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Herzog wrote my friend a long reply of ferocious challenge, in which he said, more or less, this:</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"'Quit your complaining. It's not the world's fault that you wanted to be an artist. It's not the world's job to enjoy the films you make, and it's certainly not the world's obligation to pay for your dreams. Nobody wants to hear it. Steal a camera if you must, but stop whining and get back to work.'"</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As a person who has felt much the same way as the author's friend at times, I could appreciate this. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If you think that Herzog's response was harsh, you aren't wrong... </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But it was undoubtedly </span><i style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;">true</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If we have chosen to pursue paths of creativity, we must then be creative about how we will continue to grow, thrive, and remain confident in an environment where there is no certainty regarding where our next subject matter or bit of inspiration might come from. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This creativity is not limited to "the arts," mind you. On the contrary, creative living can encompass anything which makes a person feel passionate and alive, or transcends one beyond the plane of basic human survival. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Whether that's</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> architecture, fashion, marine biology, painting, sport, collecting novelty Pez dispensers-- doesn't matter. Whatever makes you feel passionate and inspired, that is your art.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The world is not to blame for lulls in your inspiration, however-- </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">because if you have chosen to do what you love, then it is your job to get to work with a fervency that makes the world want to love it too. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thus, we often find ourselves at a juncture where we must decide whether to trudge along in the absence of our fickle friend Inspiration and risk creating shit work, or take a "break" and move onto something else for an unspecified period of time until she returns for us.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">While I tend to take the latter route, the correct answer is the former (if you ever hope to get anywhere in your endeavors, that is).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If we sit around waiting for Inspiration to knock down our door, we may wind up sitting for a very, very long time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Inspiration needs fuel, a host with enough momentum to carry her, even when she becomes heavy with languor. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The best way to call Inspiration back to us, then, is to get to work. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Even if our work is feeling uninspired and tedious, we must do it, and do it earnestly. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Because we never know, as we are working we may stumble across some idea or creative tangent which ignites Inspiration to return to us, that we wouldn't have discovered if we were being stagnant.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So do what you love.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Get in bed with your passions; marry them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Stick by them for all that they're worth: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">T</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">he highs and the lows, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the profound and the uninspired. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then watch, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as your efforts sail you around the world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">xx, Bailey</span><br />
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Bailey Bowershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11147596304112612859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025934563591954693.post-29733157158765933062016-03-01T14:23:00.000-06:002016-03-03T14:04:56.660-06:00Success, and the Delusion of Inadequacy<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Let's journey back</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To a time long ago, when the aim of the human race was survival.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">An idea comprised of obtaining food, water, and shelter.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">During this time, achieving said goal of mere continuance made a species or a member therein "successful."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now enter 2016;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Some people in the world still live this way.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">However today, we tend to consider those aiming only to survive as "less fortunate."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">With most of us living comfortably and finding our next meal or source of shelter not difficult to come by in our technologically advanced society, we have free time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Too much free time; wherein we have created illusionary needs and goals and definitions of achievement, which we have in turn applied to our species as a whole.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If you aren't making <i>x</i> dollars annually, you fail occupationally.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If you aren't thriving on <i>this</i> social platform, you are not well-liked; you fail socially.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If your looks do not meet <i>these</i> standards of excellence, you fail physically. And so on.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Historically and scientifically speaking, this is the opposite of true.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Before we had this abundance of spare time to create problems for ourselves, the laws of nature would have said that if you were surviving, you were succeeding.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Because what is success? There is no concrete definition.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Webster says that it is "the accomplishment of an aim or purpose." Therefore, success is subjective. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What is your aim? What is your purpose? What do you dream of? What makes you feel <i>alive</i>?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That is your success.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We have become wrapped up in this culture in which we measure ourselves against everyone else.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We compete with their dreams and their goals, and often times those dreams and goals don't even belong to them to begin with; they too are competing with another's.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We spend so much time competing that we forget to live, and ergo by the very basic scientific definition of success, we have all failed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Gauge your success against yourself. Where you've come from; where you want to go.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The lie of society has triumphed in making its elemental members feel inadequate and insane for far too long.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Nobody except you has the right to determine whether or not you are flourishing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And if ever you feel like a failure, remember that you are alive. That fact in itself is the greatest and most absolute measure of success that can be quantified or agreed upon by humankind.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You are successful.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now work on being unique. Work on being decent.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Use your innate human achievement to reveal to others how successful and beautiful they are, too. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What is to come of this Earth if we spend all of our time with our heads down, dabbling in trivial matters to reap meaningless rewards?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">True honor lies in exposing beauty;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lending inspiration;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sharing in substantial relationships;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Protecting and appreciating the cycle of life, and the abundance of our gracious planet which is ever-dwindling;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Leaving this place better off than we found it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Find peace in the fact that life is a continuous gift-- o</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ne that would be a shame to waste on anyone else's idea of what matters-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And so long as you are breathing, you have won. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">xx, Bailey </span><br />
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<br />Bailey Bowershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11147596304112612859noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025934563591954693.post-33670232636097789302016-02-19T15:19:00.001-06:002016-04-08T11:14:39.338-05:00create your sanctuary<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Everybody needs one:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A place to where they can retreat... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Feel creative; peaceful; <i>s</i></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>till</i>, in a world that is anything but.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The goal is to develop one's own mind to become this sort of sanctuary.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But nevertheless, its does not hurt to have a physical place that can act as a catalyst for creative cognition and ideation-- or, even, for the most epic nap of all time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If you are so fortunate to have a place to call home (100 million people in the world do not) it is nice/crucial to have an area that is all your own where you can go to find peace... Your fortress of solitude, so to speak.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Mine is my bedroom, though one day I hope to have a separate room to dedicate to my practices of art, meditation, reading, being, etc.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Wherever you designate your space to be, it is important to keep it </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>comfortable</i>, </span><i style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;">clean</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and </span><i style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;">full of inspirational energy</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Every person's sanctuary will inevitably be different, but if you try and craft yours with those three characteristics in mind, you will wind up with a place that you find peaceful, creative, and unique.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My personal style is earthy and minimalistic.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I like light neutral colors, desert tones, and rustic-looking handmade or secondhand knick knacks.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I also have a million candles which I keep lit almost constantly... Candles are essential to my sanctuary's positive energy flow.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">All of my candles are, for the most part, either made by me (I will post a how-to on that later), or purchased from <span style="color: purple;"><a href="http://www.anthropologie.com/anthro/category/candles/home-candle.jsp?cm_sp=TOPNAV-_-HOME-_-CANDLE#/" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">Anthropologie</span></a> </span>or <span style="color: purple;"><a href="http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/catalog/category.jsp?id=A_FURN_CANDLES#/" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">Urban Outfitters</span></a>.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Favorites include <a href="http://www.anthropologie.com/anthro/product/home-candle/31285828.jsp#/" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">Volcano by Capri Blue</span></a> and <span style="color: purple;"><span style="color: purple;"><a href="http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/catalog/productdetail.jsp?id=29045846&category=A_FURN_CANDLES" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">Tobacco & Patchouli by Paddywax Apothecary</span></a>.</span> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In addition to my candles, trinkets, and neutrally hued space, I also love keeping fresh flowers on my surfaces, bright string lights around my windows, and books-- everywhere. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The fusion of all of these elements gives my room a magical feeling which inspires me to relax, learn and create.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Below, I've pictured and explained the details of my decor to hopefully provide you with some inspo / a jumping-off point when you go to build or update your own sanctuary. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Remember, your space should be a unique reflection of who <i>you</i> are.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What inspires you? What makes you feel safe, peaceful, and expressive? What reminds you of your hometown, family or childhood?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">These are the kinds of questions you should ask yourself as you create your sanctuary.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">A handmade ceramic leaf tray gifted to me by my Aunt. I use it as a surface for my healing crystals, clary sage, and various scents I find soothing. To the right, my favorite Paddywax candle, flowers in a beer bottle, and a lantern.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">My geometric terrarium, Mother's gold candle holder, and some various vessels for candle votives. s/o to alliteration. The one in the middle is a Himalayan salt rock, which purifies the surrounding air and charges your space with ions for a calming effect. I got the little bronze one at an Indian supermarket; it was designed to heat incense for offerings. The mirrored pyramid was a snag from the greatest store ever-- Urban Outfitters. </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>My sheared Alpaca teddy bear from Peru, pictured with some of my favorite reads right now. </i>The Wes Anderson Collection<i> features a timeline of the filmography of my personal favorite director ever, as well as interviews with the man himself. In the middle is a magazine I recently acquired called </i>Brownbook: An Urban Guide to the Middle East.<i> This is Issue 54 entitled "Plants," as well as an insert from the Cairo Observer that came with it. To the right, </i>The Alchemist<i> and </i>Five Acres and Independence: A Practical Guide to the Selection and Management of the Small Farm<i> (I found it at a thrift store and was intrigued).</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>A parchment poster that I got from a random vintage store in Wyoming and absolutely adore. Below it sits my record player, currently featuring</i> Acid Rap <i>by Chance the Rapper.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I would love to hear what types of things you would choose for your own sanctuary, as well as any inquiries or suggestions in the comments below!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Happy weekend :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">xx, Bailey</span>Bailey Bowershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11147596304112612859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025934563591954693.post-31243343472533381082016-02-10T13:23:00.000-06:002016-02-10T13:48:29.039-06:00style spotlight: David Bowie<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There are many types of gifted individuals in this world...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Some of them dilute their aptitudes across several fields, earning their multi-talented badge, but never becoming truly great in one particular category.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then there are those who specialize; hone in on a single area or practice where they feel they stand apart and shine brighter.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Often they achieve great things; </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">we learn their names.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And finally, the classification with the highest honor and consequently the fewest participants: Those possessing the capacity to attain complete quintessence in more fields than one.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Meaning that when you hold these individuals' achievements in one category independent from another, they remain just as iconic.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The late David Bowie/Ziggy Stardust/Aladdin Sane/Thin White Duke was this sort of rare gem.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Not only was Bowie one of the greatest all-time influences on the music industry, changing his sound with virtually every album, but he simultaneously impacted the fashion industry in much the same way. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Just as his musical style morphed and adapted every few years, so did his look. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And although Bowie's clothing choices took on an incredibly diverse range, they were all equally emblematic; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">making him a powerful influence on fashion for years to date and certainly for years to come, despite his recent and tragic death.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So without further ado, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">some of Bowie's signature looks and their various interpretations over the years... Enjoy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">xx, Bay</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>Bailey Bowershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11147596304112612859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025934563591954693.post-36648846404942664192016-01-20T18:02:00.001-06:002016-01-26T12:55:54.649-06:00the here, the now, the everything<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I want all of it</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A full heart; An open mind; A good night's sleep; $1.5 billion; A peaceful mental state when reflecting on the past or considering the future; Mac and cheese that registers with the body as celery...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But here lies the problem: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To want is to indicate to yourself and others that you are without</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">when, truthfully, you are without nothing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Believe you are rich and you will feel so-- in spirit if not monetarily.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Recognize the great health that you already posses, and you will effortlessly ensure measures to maintain it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Acknowledge the fact that without the past happening precisely the way that it did, you would not be the person you are right now,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and that the future is but an illusionary mystery; one we ought not concern ourselves with.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">All we have, I mean the only<i> </i>tangible and propitious gift that we possess, is the present.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Right here, right now, all around us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And we are <i>missing</i> <i>it</i>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We consume ourselves with constant distractions.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thoughts of irrelevant past; plans for irrelevant future; the opinions of others.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What we should be focusing on instead is this exact second in time...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">On the elements of life and celestial existence pulsating around us constantly.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The way your chest moves as you breathe.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The way your fingers feel when they touch something.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The way your food tastes as you eat it; the satisfaction of thirst-quenched.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is nearly impossible in this day and age to pull ourselves out of our heads/smartphones and into the moment... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We don't even recognize how pathetically un-present we're being.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When you do manage to clear your mind and focus only on the now, one second at a time, you will know:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It feels almost as if you are wearing goggles or seeing the world through the eyes of a dream; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">things look different.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This exceedingly difficult practice of redirecting one's thoughts and, instead, immersing fully in the present, is referred to as "mindfulness."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Practicing mindfulness has been known to have a range of positive effects on things like stress, mental disorders, and even some physical illnesses. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Being mindful begins with meditation-- with consciously drawing your thoughts and attention to the present moment. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thus, how does one start to develop these habits?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Good question. Some form of aid is almost certainly necessary, as meditating is anything but natural for our 2016 edition overexposed-and-overworked brain parts.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But fear not, ya girl's got ya.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">About a year ago I acquired a helpful mini-read called <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Little-Book-Mindfulness-minutes-stress/dp/1856753530" target="_blank">The Little Book of Mindfulness</a> by Dr. Patrizia Collard </i>(click title for Amazon link)<i>. </i>It outlines 5-10 minute daily exercises to help you embark upon your mastery of meditation. I've also found a few helpful tips from <a href="http://zenhabits.net/meditation-guide/" target="_blank">Zen Habits</a>, which I've included below:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>1) "Sit for just two minutes. This will seem ridiculously easy, to just meditate for two minutes. That’s perfect. Start with just two minutes a day for a week. If that goes well, increase by another two minutes and do that for a week. If all goes well, by increasing just a little at a time, you’ll be meditating for 10 minutes a day in the 2nd month, which is amazing! But start small first.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>2) Do it first thing each morning. It’s easy to say, “I’ll meditate every day,” but then forget to do it. Instead, set a reminder for every morning when you get up, and put a note that says “meditate” somewhere where you’ll see it.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>3) Don’t get caught up in the how — just do. Most people worry about where to sit, how to sit, what cushion to use … this is all nice, but it’s not that important to get started. Start just by sitting on a chair, or on your couch. Or on your bed. If you’re comfortable on the ground, sit cross-legged. It’s just for two minutes at first anyway, so just sit. Later you can worry about optimizing it so you’ll be comfortable for longer, but in the beginning it doesn’t matter much, just sit somewhere quiet and comfortable.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>4) Check in with how you’re feeling. As you first settle into your meditation session, simply check to see how you’re feeling. How does your body feel? What is the quality of your mind? Busy? Tired? Anxious? See whatever you’re bringing to this meditation session as completely OK.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>5) Count your breaths. Now that you’re settled in, turn your attention to your breath. Just place the attention on your breath as it comes in, and follow it through your nose all the way down to your lungs. Try counting “one” as you take in the first breath, then “two” as you breathe out. Repeat this to the count of 10, then start again at one.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>6) Come back when you wander. Your mind will wander. This is an almost absolute certainty. There’s no problem with that. When you notice your mind wandering, smile, and simply gently return to your breath. Count “one” again, and start over. You might feel a little frustration, but it’s perfectly OK to not stay focused, we all do it. This is the practice, and you won’t be good at it for a little while.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>7) Develop a loving attitude. When you notice thoughts and feelings arising during meditation, as they will, look at them with a friendly attitude. See them as friends, not intruders or enemies. They are a part of you, though not all of you. Be friendly and not harsh.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>8) Don’t worry too much that you’re doing it wrong. You will worry you’re doing it wrong. That’s OK, we all do. You’re not doing it wrong. There’s no perfect way to do it, just be happy you’re doing it."</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The hope is that with these simple tips and practices, one might begin to recognize the nature of their mind, and start successfully drawing themselves back into the loving and powerful embrace of the here/now.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Life is fleeting, so why waste a single moment at the hands of needless contemplation or anxiety? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Allow yourself to become immersed in the sensations of currentness.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Begin to find your menial tasks saturated with soul; e</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ach undertaking acting as a reflection of the cosmos which echo within your core; l</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">et everything you touch become art.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You are just as you are, and you already possess everything you need.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">All that other stuff-- it will take care of itself. Believe that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Love eternal,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">xx</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Enjoy.</span></div>
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Bailey Bowershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11147596304112612859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025934563591954693.post-69619281738762671012016-01-06T13:34:00.002-06:002016-01-07T15:25:16.151-06:00XVI<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Happy Sweet Sixteen to the third millennium! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It's weird the way the time vanishes... I swear I still feel/behave like it's 2007. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Though not typically one for New Years Resolutions (I find continuous self-evaluation and improvement to be a more noble and benchmarkable cause), it is an indisputable fact that goal setting is paramount to one's personal growth and success. So why not let the start of the new year coincide with some of your short and long term objectives? No harm there. I just wouldn't go calling them "New Year's Resolutions," because as that Jan 1st square on the calendar shrinks further and further into the background, so might your motivation and incentive (At least from my own personal experience).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That being said, I thought I would use my first blog post of 2016 to showcase a few of my own goals for this year, as well as some books that I'm currently reading, products I'm enjoying, and songs I'm bumping like errryday; Enjoy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1) Blog more (at least once a week)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2) Swear less (word to Ma)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">3) Finish writing my novel</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">4) Master the practice of Meditation</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">5) Photograph for at least 5 minutes every day</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">6) Exercise 3-4 times a week</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">7) Send a hand-written letter to a friend each month</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">8) Get promoted at work</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">9) Journal Daily</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">* When setting goals, it's important to try and use specific numerical values and time frames-- This will hold you accountable to a certain standard which will remain clear even if you become less motivated. I've also tried to include at least one goal in each category of wellness: Intellectual, Social, Spiritual, Physical, Emotional, and Occupational. Balancing your objectives this way will lead to an overall improved sense of well-being, even if you don't achieve every single one. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1) <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Tibetan-Book-Living-Dying-International/dp/0062508342" target="_blank">The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying</a></i> by Sogyal Rinpoche - This book is crazy deep, insightful, and is sure to expand your mind in some way. It explores themes of impermanence, karma and rebirth, the nature of mind, meditation, the practice of compassion, how to care for and show love to the dying, and much more. Although written from a Buddhist perspective, the book is not matter-of-fact or condescending toward people of other faiths in the slightest, and in fact most of the themes within can be applied to any religion or spiritual disposition. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2) <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Alchemist-Paulo-Coelho/dp/0062315005/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1452021692&sr=8-1&keywords=the+alchemist" target="_blank">The Alchemist</a></i> by Paulo Coelho - On the surface, The Alchemist is an easy-read fiction novel about an Andalusian shepherd, but truly it is much more than that. Written as an allegory for achieving one's true destiny/personal dream, the story is more of a self help piece than light literature. So far I've been very inspired and cannot wait to finish reading. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1) <a href="http://www.lushusa.com/Breath-of-Fresh-Air/02359,en_US,pd.html" target="_blank">LUSH Breath of Fresh Air Toner</a> - Contains seawater, seaweed extract, rose absolute and aloe vera to soothe and balance dry or damaged skin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2) <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mizon-Snail-Recovery-Gel-Cream/dp/B00BQM3S3C" target="_blank">MIZON Snail Recovery Gel Cream</a> - It might sound nasty to put snail secretion on your face, but there's definitely something to it. Korean skincare is years ahead of us-- after using this for just a few days in collaboration with my LUSH toner, my complexion cleared up and I saw reduced redness and oiliness in my skin, as well as shrunken pores. It is not, however, a moisturizer. If you are prone to dry skin, you will need to apply lotion after this cream. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">3) Natural Anxiety Remedies (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/New-Chapter-Basil-Force-Softgels/dp/B002AJ7PF2" target="_blank"><i>New Chapter</i> Holy Basil Force</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/LifeSeasons-Anxie-T-Stress-Support-capsules/dp/B008KPZN4A" target="_blank"><i>Life Seasons</i> Anxie-T</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Herb-Pharm-Extract-Promote-Relaxation/dp/B0016B5U20" target="_blank"><i>Herb Pharm </i>Kava Root Extract</a>) - A big thing I struggled with in 2015 was anxiety/some accompanying depression (the two are very closely linked). It took me a while to pinpoint anxiety as the root of my issue, as it wasn't something I had ever had problems with before. I started taking these all-natural and non habit-forming supplements, and it's crazy the amount of improvement I've experienced in a few short months. Highly recommend if you wrestle with anxiety. Life is short; stress less :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">4) <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Nature-Made-Vitamin-Release-Tablets/dp/B005DXM32M/ref=sr_1_1?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1452022463&sr=1-1&keywords=b12+vitamins" target="_blank">B12 Vitamins</a> (any brand, I use Nature Made) - B12 is a vitamin which carries innumerable positive benefits-- including increased energy, stress reduction, protection against heart disease, cell reproduction for healthy skin and hair, and even alleged protection against cancer. These little miracle pills can be found at any drugstore or supermarket. Take on a consistent basis to feel results!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That's all for now folks. Hopefully (per my above goals) Boho will be comin' atcha much more frequently this year, and I hope that you can extract some inspiration or utility from the ideas and items mentioned in this post. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Try new things in 2016. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Go harder; Dream bigger; Love more. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If there is one sentiment that is consistently drilled into my head and heart each New Year, it's that we don't have time here to waste. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Own this life. </span><br />
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<br />Bailey Bowershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11147596304112612859noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025934563591954693.post-72339401219378888412015-10-06T12:55:00.000-05:002015-10-07T16:00:14.162-05:00thoughts<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I like to write when I'm in strange moods;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When I'm very acutely aware of what it means to inhabit my own body, for instance-- preoccupied with neither past nor future, but rather unshakably present; mindful.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My thoughts and feelings are ripe at these times; ready to eat; I overflow. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Joy, sorrow and ecstasy sit just beneath the surface; I could laugh or cry at any moment. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Not because I'm PMSing/a woman, but because my perspective has zoomed wayyyy out. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I see myself and my surroundings as minuscule and yet crucial pieces of a bigger whole: I look around my apartment and see not walls and furniture, but the purpose of those things within the grander scheme, of which I know very little but speculate very much, and very often. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">All cognitions are scattered in the most peaceful way... I drift from one to the next delicately, not missing the last or anticipating the subsequent. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What languages do we all speak?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Love</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hurt</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Regret</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Pride</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Triumph</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Music... art... food...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We are all human, and what extends further-- we are all infinite. Human or not, dead or alive, we each have an indestructible essence which will continue to exist even if we, in our mortal forms, do not. It is this very energy which should make us feel inextricably connected here on Earth. We should love the shit out of each other. We are all we have, and we will not always be around. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Think of someone you dislike. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now think about if you had been born into their body, with their mind, lived life under their circumstances and shared their experiences.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You would be exactly like them. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You would have done precisely the things that they have done. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is the basis of compassion: The ability to understand that we are all different and yet we are all the same. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We must do everything we can to embody this concept; it is the only thing that will save us. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I like this quote by O.G. of empathy, Mother Teresa-- </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This young stunner is my best friend Kris. If you're a regular reader you might recognize her from past posts, because she's the sister-type and we like to hang out and go to mountains together and stuff. But today, this is not one of those posts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Almost four years ago, during the Fall of our freshman year at college, I received an earth-shattering phone call: Kristina's father, the rock and loving support system to her and her three beautiful sisters, had just taken his own life. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I broke down instantly at hearing this, imagining what my sweet girl must have been feeling at that moment. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The months and years that have since ensued have been full of ups and downs. But i</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">f there were a silver lining to be derived from the nightmare, for me it would be learning and witnessing firsthand just how strong and brave of a woman I am blessed to be friends with. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Kris is the epitome of turning negative experiences into opportunities for growth. She radiates positivity and kindness; if you didn't know her you would have no idea of the hardships she and her family have faced. And truthfully, we have no idea of the hardships that anyone has faced-- a concept which forms the crux of suicide prevention and a cause that Kris has since dedicated herself to: The importance of treating every single human with respect, kindness, and love.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Kristina now lives in Los Angeles and attends Santa Monica College, where she recently completed a course in photography. For their final project, the class was given one instruction: Yellow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yellow is the color for suicide prevention, so naturally, Kris chose to use the project to further bear this cause which is so close to her heart. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Her photos explore themes of joy and contentment, depression and thoughts of suicide, and finally hope; optimism; the choice to keep holding on. I've included some of these shots (several of which feature her gorgeous sister, Kelly) below. I'd like to thank Kris for allowing me to share her story and photos, but moreover I'd like to thank her for just being the amazing person and friend that she is. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>"Above all else, we choose to stay. We choose to fight the darkness and the sadness, to fight the questions and the lies and the myth of all that’s missing. We choose to stay, because we are stories still going. Because there is still some time for things to turn around, time for surprises and for change. We stay because no one else can play our part."</i> </span></div>
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<i>for more information on suicide prevention and awareness, visit <a href="https://twloha.com/" target="_blank">To Write Love on Her Arms</a></i></div>
Bailey Bowershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11147596304112612859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025934563591954693.post-38696699278604014732015-07-13T16:05:00.003-05:002015-08-20T15:23:45.943-05:00blazing summer, cold coffee<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I'm melting. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It's <i>hot</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I've spent most of my days in a dreamy haze as of late; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">drunk with fervor; sketching or reading old books until tugged gently into unconsciousness. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The miserable heat inspires me for reasons unknown.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Perhaps the muddled sensation of slight disconnect from the body, brought on by hot spells of languor is enough to propel one's crude essence into the stuff of creation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Maybe it's just the Vitamin D.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Whatever the case may be, you can be damned sure that I'm not doing anything of significance without music, which is the basis of this mostly-off-topic post.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This playlist handily encompasses my recent state of whim, while delivering a hard dose of creative inspiration to boot. </span><br />
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Bailey Bowershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11147596304112612859noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025934563591954693.post-13877184788217680922015-07-07T18:05:00.000-05:002015-07-08T14:15:12.572-05:00la / new zealand / australia video recap<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">About a month ago, my brother and I took a two week excursion across the globe. After making a pit stop in Los Angeles to visit our close friends, we traveled to Aukland and Queenstown New Zealand, and wrapped up with a visit to our cousin and his girlfriend in Sydney, Australia. It took me <i>forever</i> to edit all of the GoPro clips from our adventures into one comprehensive video recap, but alas I have done that which (from the ever-disheartening square one) felt undoable. I hope that you enjoy the fruits of my labor, and be sure to stay tuned for the photo diary, coming soon. Special thanks and love to the family and friends who made this trip so memorable every step of the way. For optimum resolution, make sure to set your quality to 1080 HD under the settings tab at the bottom right hand of the video. Enjoy! xx</span><br />
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Bailey Bowershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11147596304112612859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025934563591954693.post-67914431494335596102015-04-29T01:51:00.000-05:002015-07-09T01:47:01.315-05:00Congaree: A nature narrative<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A few weeks ago, I drove out to Congaree National Park for a much needed retreat into nature. No friends. No phone. Just me, my camera, my journal, and a book. Inspired by my travels and the naturalistic works of some of my favorite authors, I decided to write a narrative of my experience; enjoy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I began my trek on a marked pathway which led "around the river bend". It was a nice Saturday, so families and children naturally frequented the more popular areas-- areas I hence sought to avoid. After a mile or two, the walkway expired, my shoes met the muddy earth, and any human company within earshot turned back or fell away. I was finally alone with the wilderness. </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">In this improved privacy, my senses became more attuned; Fresh smells and sights and sounds, new each moment. I picked up a stick. It was a good stick. Sturdy; relatively long; pointed at the end. I wrote in the dirt with it, "here lies my heart." Whatever that meant. It was really just the first thing that came to me. </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I kept walking with my new tool, feeling more confident in its presence. It was a symbol of inadequacy, in a way; it didn't coincide with some tree's idea of natural selection. Maybe it was severed by an unknown, external force. Either way, it had been cast down as weak and unfit. Yet to the unsuspecting traveller, it was an instrument of creation and new potential; Or, in the unlikely event of predation, could serve as a weapon; a device of the hunt. I dragged Stick along passing trees, wondering if it felt to them as it would feel if I dragged my own finger down the length of my stomach-- like a tingle, perhaps.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br />As I continued around the river bend trail, I came across a strange pair of trees: </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">One appeared to have fallen, but was still virtually standing upright, due to the fact that the second tree was forked into a V around the first-- supporting it. </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It was a curious sight, and seemed a rather convenient placement for that oddly shaped V tree. What was it going to do?, I wondered, support the other tree forever? I couldn't help but parallel this inquiry with a regrettable occurrence that I had witnessed many a time in the human realm... This act of sacrificial dedication was as much our nature as it was this tree's; The way we often times support and cling to things that are dying. We can't really help it. We've already taken root; planted ourselves next to this person or thing so that when they fall, we are right there, limbs outstretched, ready to catch them. </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">But if we never shift our ground from beneath their inevitable descend, aren't we dooming ourselves to collapse, too?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br />I kept walking for several miles with these thoughts in mind; watching out for tree roots so as not to trip (again) and listening to the distant sounds of frogs and woodpeckers. </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">The second natural phenomenon that I stumbled upon was more confounding than the first. It was a tree-- the largest tree that I had surely ever seen in real life-- fallen; laying off to the left of the trail. It must have been over a hundred feet long; covered in moss. I wondered what could've brought the damned thing down. God, perhaps? Lightning? Maybe it took itself; got so old and tall that it decided it was time to move on to the next beacon of life or rest; let go and ironically yelled "timber!" I walked around to the stump, which was split and mangled in an erratic way and taller than me in any direction. I grappled to get up onto the monstrous thing, still in awe of its condition, and attempted to visualize its former majesty as I walked the length of its rotting body back to my trail.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br />I was grateful on these walks for the years of literature swaddled within my cavernous memory. Often times I could hear Hemingway, Thoreau and Dillard narrating my journey; guiding my steps; keeping me company. A particular quote from <i>Walden</i> came to mind as I drew closer to the river:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">We need the tonic of wildness... At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">." </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Stick and I were now walking alongside the miry river which was speckled with weird, bottom heavy trees and little jagged stumps. This nature was captivating in a nontypical sense... It felt fragmented and slightly pained, but appeared to thrive on nonetheless with perseverance and conviction. </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">In another mile or two, I came upon a sign marked with two different trail descriptions. One trail went right, one went left. There were footsteps to the right, and when I listened closely I could hear faint voices; People who sounded amused and giddy; pleased with their surroundings as I surely would be. The right pathway seemed a fine place to be.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I--"</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I went left.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br />Left was the right choice, it seemed, as I came upon the loveliest reading rock just shortly after starting down this path. I laid out a blanket and pulled from my backpack my worn copy of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. The book had been given to my mother in 1977 by someone named Greg, which I knew because his name and the date were scrawled on the inside cover. The pages were yellowed and dogeared; the margins filled with illegible notes. I turned to Chapter 1: Heaven and Earth in Jest, and lost myself at once in the ingenious psyche of Annie Dillard. My favorite paragraph from this chapter reads:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"I am no scientist. I explore the neighborhood. An infant who has just learned to hold his head up has a frank and forthright way of gazing about him in bewilderment. He hasn't the faintest clue where he is, and he aims to learn. In a couple of years, what he will have learned instead is how to fake it: he'll have the cocksure air of a squatter who has come to feel he owns the place. Some unwonted, taught pride diverts us from our original intent, which is to explore the neighborhood, view the landscape, to discover at least <i>where</i> it is that we have been so startlingly set down, if we can't learn why."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This passage has always been important to me... I think it effectively summarizes why I've often felt in my bones a magnetic pull from urban society into the arms of Mother Nature. Among the trees, the earth and the water, we experience (if we are open to it) a sort of homecoming after having perhaps forgotten where we truly came from; what we coexist with; where we will one day return. I go into the woods to find solitude. But what I actually find is quite the opposite: A magnitude of life, inexhaustible energy, perpetual creation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I finished the last leg of my journey feeling pensive, peaceful and appreciative. Sometimes we must look outside of ourselves and our archetypal environments in order to discover what has been inside of us all along. </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">We are the trees, the earth, and the ocean; we are the sun, the moon and the stars. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">We are everything and we are nothing. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">If we can learn to view our peers and our planet not as expendable resources, but as extensions of ourselves and our own interminable energy, we will unlock a myriad of love and respect for all living things-- as well as an internal, unequivocal sense of serenity. There is endless opportunity for education in the natural world; I believe, in fact, that nature is the best teacher at our disposal.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I arrived back to my original point of debarkation and smiled. It was bittersweet to leave; part of me felt like I could stay forever and probably fair much better that way. But the other, bigger part of me knew that these journeys were merely vacations that I needed for restorative purposes; to calm my restless bones and refocus my perspective. I would return to the earth soon. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Although I didn't get to spend this Easter in Texas with my family, my weekend certainly was not void of any love, good food or great company. My boy and I took a trip to Atlanta and spent Easter Sunday strolling and snapping pics around the Little Five Points district. Art and kind souls never fail to reinforce my appreciation for my health, my freedom, and the continuous gift of existence. Life is good. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What lies beyond Earth is profoundly captivating. It is, in a sense, completely imaginary-- as most of us have never been to space or seen it with our own eyes. But we know that it's there... It reminds us every day; the motion of the tides; the rise and fall of the sun and her nocturnal counterpart; the tiny dots which scatter the night sky.. appearing barely the size of grains of sand, but rumored to subsist as massive balls of plasma and cosmic gas. Maybe they hold souls; maybe they hold stories; but they've been around longer and seen more than any human has or will have. In regards to our timeline, space and all of her children are the closest to permanent that anything will ever be... a</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">nd few things have the power to make us feel as utterly dwarfed-- and yet totally reverential-- as the Universe and solar system. I recently stumbled across the artistic works of Santa Fe-based painter Stella Maria Baer and found myself washed again by this sentiment. But this time, there was something else... for once, I felt a warm tinge of familiarity in the company of my once-intimidating brush with infiniteness. Baer has clearly taken the time to get to know these stellar structures; to love them and respect them... And somehow she manages to capture their magnitude and ancient wisdom on a two-dimensional surface that the viewer can hold with his or her own hands. What is an artist. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“The World is so big, so
complicated, so replete with marvels and surprises, that it takes years for
most people to begin to notice that it is, also, irretrievably<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">broken</span>. We call this period of
research “childhood.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There follows a program of
renewed inquiry, often involuntary, into the nature and effects of mortality,
entropy, heartbreak, violence, failure, cowardice, duplicity, cruelty, and
grief; the researcher learns their histories, and their bitter lessons, by heart.
Along the way, he or she discovers that the world has been broken for as long
as anyone can remember, and struggles to reconcile this fact with the ache of
cosmic nostalgia that arises, from time to time, in the researcher’s heart: an
intimation of vanished glory, of lost wholeness, a memory of the world
unbroken. We call the moment at which this ache first arises “adolescence.” The
feeling haunts people all their lives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Everyone, sooner or later,
gets a thorough schooling in brokenness. The question becomes: What to do with
the pieces? Some people hunker down atop the local pile of ruins and make do,
Bedouins tending their goats in the shade of shattered giants. Others set about
breaking what remains of the world into bits ever smaller and more jagged,
kicking through the rubble like kids running through piles of leaves. And some
people, passing among the scattered pieces of that great overturned jigsaw
puzzle, start to pick up a piece here, a piece there, with a vague yet
irresistible notion that perhaps something might be done about putting the
thing back together again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Two difficulties with this
latter scheme at once present themselves. First of all, we have only ever
glimpsed, as if through half-closed lids, the picture on the lid of the jigsaw
puzzle box. Second, no matter how diligent we have been about picking up pieces
along the way, we will never have anywhere near enough of them to finish the
job. The most we can hope to accomplish with our handful of salvaged bits—the
bittersweet harvest of observation and experience—is to build a little world of
our own. A scale model of that mysterious original, unbroken, half remembered.
Of course the worlds we build out of our store of fragments can only be
approximations, partial and inaccurate. As representations of the vanished
whole that haunts us, they must be accounted failures. And yet in that very
failure, in their gaps and inaccuracies, they may yet be faithful maps,
accurate scale models, of this beautiful and broken world. We call these scale
models </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">works of art</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.””</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-All photos are stills from films by Wes Anderson.</span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">xx</span></i></div>
Bailey Bowershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11147596304112612859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025934563591954693.post-65453498484915007722015-02-08T13:05:00.001-06:002015-02-12T13:25:23.796-06:00greetings from 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Welcome back, boho babes. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The drought is over, as they say... Reunited and it feels <i>so good</i>. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The calendar has changed since we last saw each other; 2015 was then merely a seed in the earth, and now the first of her buds have been made visible; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Tiny; unsure; full of potential; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Up to each of us to determine whether that little plant will flourish or flounder.</span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The energy in the air each January 1st is almost electric... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I'm not sure what it is with us humans and time, but we place much importance on that spectrum; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and although we will continue to move forward at the same pace and linearity that we always have, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">there is something decidedly empowering about the perceived startings-over brought on by the beginning of a new year; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>"Maybe </i>this<i> will be the year that I finally __________," etc.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The reality, though, is that it is never too late to "start over", and no day of the week/month/year is the wrong time to enlist the work of your best and most powerful self for help with your uniquely-perplexing journey. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So don't fret if you missed that January 1st boat; you can catch the February 8th one all the same; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Just as long as you know how capable you are, and that you don't have to waste even one second in a situation that makes you feel unhappy or unworthy. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One's outer world is simply a reflection of their inner world; </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">everything that we see and experience is the manifestation of our own thoughts. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Which means:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Plant the seed of a limitless perspective today, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and find a beautiful flower tomorrow. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Or the next day. Or a month's time from now. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You won't know, and that's the fun part. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But that seed is there, and it's growing, and that is all that matters. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Boom. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Piece of [gluten-free-resolution] cake. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Or whatever you're into right now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So let me tell you a few things about the new site:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I've been working very hard on it and I'm pleased with the results. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What I am perhaps the most excited about is that you can now subscribe to Boho Genesis by entering your email address in the left sidebar, and the program FeedBurner will send my published posts to your inbox the moment they go live. So that's pretty sweet, if you're the type of person who doesn't want to check up every day to see if you missed anything, but who also doesn't want to miss anything. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have also added links to all of my social media accounts in case you want to connect with me in other ways. I will admit that I really only use Instagram and Facebook at the moment, but I am going to work on getting my Pinterest/Tumblr/Twitter/Linkedin active.... and you will notice that if you hover over any of the pictures on my page, you now have the option to share them directly to your Pinterest. So if you really dig a photo, feel free to Pin that ish. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Aaaand....yeah! Thanks for stickin' with me. I've gotten some requests for new beauty/art/music posts, so stay tuned for all of that action and more.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And <i>please</i> don't hesitate to leave feedback-- It warms my insides and helps me get a feel for what you want to see. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Much love;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Go kick some 2015 ass this week.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">xx</span>Bailey Bowershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11147596304112612859noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025934563591954693.post-55959226831841469382014-10-13T21:23:00.001-05:002015-02-12T13:26:31.415-06:00another meadow of dirt and rocks<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">He said he wanted to </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">take her to the meadow </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">so that they could talk </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">but </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">he </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">knew and she knew that the </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">meadow was not much </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">more </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">than a </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">lot </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">full of dirt and rocks.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So they sat on their hands and </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">stared at the sky,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">and it was then that she felt </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">something </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">stuck </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">in her eye </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">for </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">the hundredth time, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">but she wouldn't let it out </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">because </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">she couldn't </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">because </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">he would like that too much,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So she broke the silence instead:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"People hurt people and </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">that's </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">okay </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">because maybe</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">you've hurt me, </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">but I've hurt you too. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I just... I'm afraid </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I can't stay. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Not this time. N</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">ot today.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Today I think it might </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">kill me if I stay."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">He looked at her with questions in his eyes; they swelled </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">in </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">his pupils, his irises like tiny waves and she</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">remembered then how much he reminded her of the sea; the salt; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">it burns but you love it; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">it soothes your soul </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">but </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">if you stay for too long it can swallow you whole.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">She wanted to keep swimming but</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">it was dangerous, and </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">she had never been very good at it anyhow. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Blink twice;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Refocus. </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Dry off. She was a bird. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">His head was cocked </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">to </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">the </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">side a little bit now,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">mouth agape like he might speak (though he never would).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">She thought it was nice when he did that,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">because he looked like he cared a</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">nd </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">maybe he did;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Maybe they all did. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But that would have to be </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">another </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">discussion </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">for </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">another meadow of dirt and rocks.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Right now it was only him and </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">her and </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">an amber sky,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">and the premonition that she </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">would never fly </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">again,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">at least not with him.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And all she really wanted was </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">to have </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">her wings back s</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">o she </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">said </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">G</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">oodbye.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">xx</span>Bailey Bowershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11147596304112612859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025934563591954693.post-9018272169605040742014-08-09T16:00:00.000-05:002015-02-12T13:27:45.568-06:00revelations<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Well it's been a long minute.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I've tried very hard to write since returning to the United States,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">but have undeniably been experiencing a mental slump.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I came back a changed person to an unchanged world; everything exactly as I left it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This was refreshing at first... Seeing the places, people and things I always loved so much unmodified.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">It was like stepping out of the time machine and discovering that I didn't screw everything up;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Familiar. Comfortable.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Perhaps too comfortable,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">considering I had spent the last four months being anything but. Which begged the realization that maybe I had actually become more comfortable <i>outside</i> of my comfort zone [woah].</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Thus, familiar relief was quickly replaced by boredom.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I wasn't feeling challenged on a daily basis the way I had been in a foreign country; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">everything seemed so painfully straightforward.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Then that boredom was succeeded by <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Fernweh" target="_blank">fernweh</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I ached for new frontier. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I needed to be uncomfortable again.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">And finally, this need unfulfilled left me empty. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I began to feel like the preceding four months were merely the contents of an elaborate dream.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I was distracted. I was not happy. I was not myself.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This was the case for about a month until, from this void, rose a great epiphany:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Happiness is internal. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">A state of mind; of being. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">It was one of those bits that I had surely heard before, but had never really stopped to delve below the surface of... to swim to the bottom and crack open the shell of ambiguity which had been lying in the soft sand, unknowingly sequestering true implication and instruction. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">But the moment that I fully digested this concept-- <i>Happiness is internal</i>-- everything changed. Radically.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I was a happy person. I always had been.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I had allowed myself to mistakenly contribute the euphoria I experienced while abroad to an ideal location.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">But that isn't how happiness-- true happiness-- works.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">When we look outward to the world (i.e. places, material things, other people) to fulfill us, we are often left disappointed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The reason being that happiness doesn't originate out there... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">It is hatched deep inside of us, in our centers; born in our souls, it spreads to our hearts and transforms our minds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are your own home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are the only thing in your life with guaranteed permanence for as long as your heart is beating.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">If we cannot find satisfaction here, within ourselves, regardless of where we are or who we're with,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">then new locations and new <i>things</i> will only ever serve as temporary solutions to our problems.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I
look now at my surroundings that I once considered mundane and
commonplace by contrast to the Spanish countryside, and see new life; new
beauty.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Natural wonders and unobtrusive sites teeming with brilliant existence lie just behind every twist and turn in this crazy road we're all on.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">We just have to find it in ourselves to recognize them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">So </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">here's to the love, the happiness, and the appreciation</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>within.</i> </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">photos by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/szanella/with/14621892186" target="_blank">Sebastien Zanella</a> </span></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Its scary, really.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">These last four months have changed me.. changed my life.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">living just beneath the Sierra Nevada mountains,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">and everything else which has made this experience so unique and unforgettable;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I will miss Granada.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Most of all, though, I will miss these incredible people from all over the map with whom I've formed such close relationships.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">But my homeland calls to me, and I'll admit I'm quite ready to head back to the good ol' U.S.A.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I feel a new sense of direction... A rejuvenation from the distance. My heart has grown fonder. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">These photos were taken in Cadiz last weekend by my friend <a href="http://allannahw.blogspot.com.es/" target="_blank">Allannah</a>, who is a remarkable photographer and a beautiful spirit.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">There is nothing more valuable than a moment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Your senses are heightened. You are one with your surroundings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">You are acutely aware of the fact that after almost no time at all, the universe will propel you forward and you will be left with only transient memories as surreal as dreams.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I experienced exactly this when I journeyed through Morocco and into the Sahara Desert last month.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Being encompassed by seas of sand and beautiful people who I'd never known, but had been sharing the same sky with all my life...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Words cannot describe. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">this isn't about the words. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">No, the preservation of such momentary ecstasy relies on photographs; feels; virtual consumption...And I'm quenching my thirst again and again. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I am intoxicated by these moments.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">xx </span><br />
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Bailey Bowershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11147596304112612859noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025934563591954693.post-86327766780056836132014-04-29T19:48:00.001-05:002015-02-12T13:30:23.727-06:006/4/13<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">This is a journal entry that I wrote last June. I have quoted bits and pieces of it on my blog before, but I felt compelled to share the whole thing:</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I'm lying next to my friend now in her comfy silk sheets. It is 2am. She is asleep.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I feel so peaceful in this moment. A suspended reality wherein I'm both alive and dead at the same time. </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">The moment we are born, we begin to die. </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I'm fairly certain at this point that life is about love, which can take many forms. </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Most people think of love and think of soulmates or their soul loving another soul in a breathless, blissful eternity. </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">While I know that this love exists, it is not the only kind of love, and not everyone finds it. </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Love is everywhere... People, nature, ideas are all full of it. </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Right now the love I'm experiencing is for life in general-- </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">for the fluid motion of every element and being in a cycle that was calculated perfectly before the measurement of time even existed. </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Nobody sees life. </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">We see us. </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">We see our own personal world that we created in our own head and tainted with our own jaded eyes. </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">If we could open our eyes like tiny doors and step through to the outside, we would find an unknown world-- one we all share. </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">We are on the same planet in a physical sense, but mentally we are all galaxies apart; </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">We are tied to faulty stars that bleed selfish bile; </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">a bile which has infiltrated our physical planet and kills love on contact. </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I want to see the big world. The real world. </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">The one that society hasn't vandalized with its filthy myths and tactical distortions. </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Sometimes I see this world. I am seeing it now. </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">But it's hard, if not impossible to live here always, because this world is virtually deserted. </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">The longer we have spent on this earth, the longer we have learned to lie and pretend that we know ourselves and our species. </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">We know nothing. Nothing is real. </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Everything abstract was created by a separate mind from behind their own pair of eyes, and instead of recognizing this and seeing what is actually in front of us.. the ebb and flow of creatures and energy..We see this pop up book which was designed collaboratively by many souls who know nothing more than we do.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">xx</span>Bailey Bowershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11147596304112612859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025934563591954693.post-63267069138053566182014-04-19T10:04:00.001-05:002015-02-12T13:31:36.567-06:00one stone<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I've only just realized how little I have actually been blogging about my travels.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I have been in this beautiful country for three months now, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">and although the places I go and the things that I see are ongoing sources of inspiration in my writing,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I have sort of let my adventures themselves fall by the wayside. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">So I want to use this post to kill several birds with one stone.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Little ketchup action, if you will.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I think this will be nice, too, because I don't have the space to rant about each event as I tend to do.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Sticking to a picture/caption format, and you are free to use your imagination.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">The untold stories are always better.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><i>Balloons released in Vatican City after the Pope finished his sunday prayer. He is standing there in the only open window. Amazing. Side note: I sneezed SO loud during this prayer, and I think everyone at Vatican City turned and stared. I guess the acoustics are really good in there. It was mortifying.</i> </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> Some Dr. Seuss-esque trees in Tabernas, the only desert in Europe.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><i>Hiking to Monsul, Almeria. This was such a cool experience because we had to trek through the desert in order to emerge here. It was like night and day. Also, Indiana Jones "The Last Crusade" was filmed here. Breathtaking.</i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><i>Hiking through Monachil to see the waterfalls with my love. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><i>A chilly day in Nerja on the Costa del Sol. I got sprayed by a huge wave just before this photo was taken.</i></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">My friend and I making flower crowns on the roof before Fiesta de la Primavera, a huge festival in Spain to welcome Spring.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> Watching the sunset with my boy at one of my favorite lookout points in the Albaicin.</span></i></div>
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<br />Bailey Bowershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11147596304112612859noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025934563591954693.post-38823011023461019402014-04-19T09:54:00.000-05:002015-02-12T13:41:44.153-06:00<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I have been having some issues recently with this blog regarding plagiarism.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I've seen people directly quote Bohemian Genesis on their social media sites like the words were their own;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I have even seen people who have copied and pasted my blog posts into their blog as if they were the author. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I didn't think things like that actually happened.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">There is good and bad to this.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">The bad is obvious. It is not a great feeling to see the words and ideas that I take hours to put together under someone else's name. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">But I can also see that what I am doing here has inspired people, and there is no greater feeling than that.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">This is not meant to be a negative post. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">On the contrary, I am mentioning these events because I want to use them to talk about how to channel inspiration--</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">It is everywhere.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I myself am constantly being inspired by art, photographs, people, music, even other literature. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">But it is what you do with that inspiration that separates ingenuity from unoriginality. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">What is there to be gained from stealing someone else's work? Can you even feel good or accomplished about that?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">If you want to be a writer, be a writer. Turn <i>your</i> ideas into words.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">If you want to be an artist, be an artist. Make <i>your</i> unique visions into art.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Consider this: Every single thing that can be thought, imagined, or created is floating around in the universe somewhere, just waiting for someone to catch it like a falling star and make it their own; to nurture and expand on it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">There are thoughts out there that haven't even been tapped into yet... there are ideas with unscratched surfaces.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Often times the subjects for my blog posts begin as mere seeds. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">It is not until I start writing that I am able to expound on my ideas, uncover new ones, and put everything together in an eloquent format. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">The process helps me to discover new things about myself and about my surroundings. It is refreshing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">There will always be times when you will want to quote someone else because you feel like they effectively said what you are trying to say. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">That is great, quote them. But give them credit. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Everyone loves to see that their work is being consumed and appreciated by others. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Uniqueness is a quality that not many people strive to maintain anymore. I cannot understand why. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">There is nothing more beautiful than being yourself. You are the only you on this planet. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">You aren't one in a million.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">You are one in seven billion.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Use that. Be the best you that you can possibly be.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">"The strongest force in the universe is a human being living consistently with his own identity." -Tony Robbins</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Presumably, more thoughts would produce more to write about...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">And this is usually the case-- when my thoughts are the kind that allow me to kick back in a warm pool of pensive reflection and, after a bit, surface and towel-off with all of my inquisitions resolved.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">But I have spent the last month drowning in the kinds of questions and cognitions that one might wail into the universe as death nips at their feet;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">This process is somewhat regular in my life.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I spend a few weeks being tossed around mentally by everything beautiful or unbearable in the world</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">and then eventually I get my balance and find myself back at Go.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">the same few things can always be derived:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I will never again be as young as I am now.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">One day I will have obligations... people who need me in specific places at specific times.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">One day my soul will long to do things that my body simply cannot do.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">One day I will die. I will not know which day.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">But today I am free.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Today I am alive as ever.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Today, the entire world is at my feet and society is just a bad dream. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Today I am drenched in sunlight. It swallows me. I am on fire.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Today is the day.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">don't wait to apologize;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">and absolutely don't wait to love.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">We cannot control when the last grain of sand will fall from our hourglass,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>Bailey Bowershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11147596304112612859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025934563591954693.post-2782407994872423382014-03-01T13:35:00.000-06:002015-02-12T13:41:20.538-06:00reflections<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">It is apparent to me </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">that in this world, most everything that we do and strive for centers around who </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">or <i>what</i> we are going to be.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">We spend our lives working toward this divine calling;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">this destiny that we, or perhaps even someone else have laid out for us</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">telling us, this... THIS is you. This is what you are good at. This is what you were born for.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">And we listen to them, to ourselves. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">We hurdle down these tracks on a one-way train </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">not realizing that the only limit to our opportunity is our mentality...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">And those of us who do not yet know what we are going to be have been made to believe that we are the lost ones. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">But I don't feel lost.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I feel multi-talented.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I feel boundless.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Because, you see, everyone is anything. Anyone is everything. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Picasso was no more an artist than you are,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">and Steve Jobs was no more an innovator. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I am an astronaut who has never been to space.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I am a scientist who's yet to make a discovery.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I am a mother with no children.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Only when we put ourselves in these labeled boxes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">with the misconception that we <i>"can't"</i> and that we're <i>"not,"</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">only then are we truly lost.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Passion is good; to be engulfed in flames that don't burn... Do what you are passionate about, always.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">But don't do something simply because you think that that is the only thing you are capable of doing;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">the only thing you're "good at."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">You don't have to limit yourself like that.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Break those chains, baby.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Be a rock star.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Be a stunt-man.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Take every train you can. Maybe you'll catch one you'd like to stay on a while.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Never let them tell you who you are or where you're going.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">You are you, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">and where you're going? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Wherever you want. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">That's TBD on this here itinerary.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Much love.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">xx</span><br />
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