COCOA BEACH, FLORIDA: BEYOND OUR CONTROL

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ᵗ𝐡ᗴⓇe is Ⓐ 𝓗𝓤ﻮ乇 𝐚м𝕠𝓊η丅 σƒ 𝐟R𝔢𝓔𝕕όм ⓣĦ𝒶t 𝕔o𝓜𝔢𝕤 ᵗØ ʸ𝐨U 𝔀нᗴⓝ үO𝐔 тᵃⓚᵉ ή𝓸т𝕙ιη𝐆 ᵖєŕ𝓼𝕠𝓷Aℓㄥч.
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“̲F̲r̲e̲e̲d̲o̲m̲ ̲i̲s̲ ̲t̲h̲e̲ ̲o̲n̲l̲y̲ ̲w̲o̲r̲t̲h̲y̲ ̲g̲o̲a̲l̲ ̲i̲n̲ ̲l̲i̲f̲e̲.̲ ̲I̲t̲ ̲i̲s̲ ̲w̲o̲n̲ ̲b̲y̲ ̲d̲i̲s̲r̲e̲g̲a̲r̲d̲i̲n̲g̲ ̲t̲h̲i̲n̲g̲s̲ ̲t̲h̲a̲t̲ ̲l̲i̲e̲ ̲b̲e̲y̲o̲n̲d̲ ̲o̲u̲r̲ ̲c̲o̲n̲t̲r̲o̲l̲.̲”̲
̲―̲ ̲E̲p̲i̲c̲t̲e̲t̲u̲s̲

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One of Cocoa Beach’s iconic murals. Artist: David Rothman
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Cocoa Beach Pier

20mar2020. Cocoa Beach, Florida

COCOA BEACH, FLORIDA: I’M NOT IN YOUR HURRY

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“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.” ~ R. B. Fuller
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“In the Background”
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“I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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“Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“You look at where you’re going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you’ve been and a pattern seems to emerge.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
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“In it.”
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“How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole”
― C.G. Jung
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“They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
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“All the effort in the world won’t matter if you’re not inspired.”
― Chuck Palahniuk
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“Two”
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“The only journey is the one within.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

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 “No Damage”
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“As far as the eye can see. As far as the soul can comprehend.”
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Art by Skull and Crossfaders from Jackson, Mississippi.

may2018. Cocoa Beach, FL

COCOA BEACH, FLORIDA: INFINITE INTROSPECTION

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“The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one’s toes on the gravestones.” ― Émile Zola
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“Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one’s painful self through the world.
But being, being is happiness. Being: Becoming a fountain, a fountain on which the universe falls like warm rain.” ― Milan Kundera
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“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It’s always our self we find in the sea.”
― E.E. Cummings
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“Solitude is the house of peace.”
― T.F. Hodge
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“…the ghosts you chase you never catch.”
― John Malkovich
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“I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.”
― William Golding
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“He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life.” – Jon Krakauer
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A Wave is Life
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Infinite Introspection
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The Space Between
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The Colour of Spiritual Kinship
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“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”
― Ansel Adams
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Endless Summer

apr/may2018. Cocoa Beach, FL

COCOA BEACH, FLORIDA: LET YOUR MIND BE FREE

“Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.” – Chuang Tzu 


8feb17. Cocoa Beach, FL.