Or Maybe Yesterday: December 2009

Thursday, December 31, 2009

108/365 - Cheers!

My iPhone photo today. Happy New Year!

108/365 - Cheers!
Originally uploaded by benexist

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

107/365 - Waiting on Western

My iPhone photo today.

107/365 - Waiting on Western
Originally uploaded by benexist

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

106/365 - Love Da Loop

My iPhone photo today of the 181 W. Madison building.

106/365 - Love Da Loop
Originally uploaded by benexist

Monday, December 28, 2009

105/365 - School Bus Yellow

My iPhone photo today.

105/365 - School Bus Yellow
Originally uploaded by benexist

Sunday, December 27, 2009

104/365 - Meditate

My iPhone photo today.

104/365 - Meditate
Originally uploaded by benexist

Saturday, December 26, 2009

103/365 - Checking Outside

My iPhone photo today ... waiting out the snow storm.

Checking Outside
Originally uploaded by benexist

Friday, December 25, 2009

102/365 - Merry Christmas

My iPhone photo today at Christmas.

102/365 - Merry Christmas
Originally uploaded by benexist

Thursday, December 24, 2009

101/365 - In Suburbia

My iPhone photo today.

101/365 - In Suburbia
Originally uploaded by benexist

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

100/365 - Deliver

My iPhone photo today as I was leaving a construction job-site at O'Hare airport.

100/365 - Deliver
Originally uploaded by benexist

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

99/365 - Clear

My iPhone photo today. We're getting ours, but not as much.

99/365 - Clear
Originally uploaded by benexist

Monday, December 21, 2009

98/365 - Lincoln Ave.

My iPhone photo today, on way home after grocery shopping.

98/365 - Lincoln Ave.
Originally uploaded by benexist

Sunday, December 20, 2009

97/365 - Shuttered

My iPhone photo today.

97/365 - Shuttered
Originally uploaded by benexist

Saturday, December 19, 2009

96/365 - Join

My iPhone photo today.

96/365 - Join
Originally uploaded by benexist

Friday, December 18, 2009

95/365 - Close In

My iPhone photo today.

95/365 - Close In
Originally uploaded by benexist

Thursday, December 17, 2009

94/365 - Smoke 'em

My iPhone photo today. Yeah, they’re pipe smoking. Quick someone complain, so they’ll get removed. Maybe they’re just blowing bubbles. There, feel better now?

94/365 - Smoke 'em
Originally uploaded by benexist

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

93/365 - Lunch Table

My iPhone photo today; lunch at Chipotle.

93/365 - Lunch Table
Originally uploaded by benexist

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

This is the fourth and final post on quotations (found embedded on a table, while having lunch in India). This, by far, is my favorite of the four. See the previous posts: The Truth Within, Keep Moving, and Beauty.

TOMORROW

The morning is clear,
and you have twenty-four hours
to create and produce the perfect day.
This day, you will remember
the rest of your life.

Today you hit the target.
You walked out of the door
and things just seemed to come
your way, as if there were a more
powerful force guiding you.

The day ends and as you close your eyes,
you mumble to yourself the words:
"Tomorrow will be even better."

92/365 - 1962/1974

My iPhone photo today and mixing up app effects.

92/365 - 1962/1974
Originally uploaded by benexist

Monday, December 14, 2009

Beauty

This is the third post on quotations (found embedded on a table, while having lunch in India). The previous posts: The Truth Within, Keep Moving.

BEAUTY

Let beauty be your constant ideal.
The beauty of the soul
The beauty of sentiments
The beauty of thoughts
The beauty of the action
The beauty in the work

So that nothing comes out of your hands
which is not an expression of
pure and harmonious beauty.
And the divine help shall
always be with you.

- The Mother

91/365 - Corner View

My iPhone photo today.

91/365 - Corner View
Originally uploaded by benexist

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Keep Moving

This is the second post on quotations (found embedded on a table, while having lunch in India). The first post is The Truth Within.

KEEP MOVING

What is the best thing for a stream?

It is to keep moving.
If it stops, it stagnates.

So the best thing for a man is that
which keeps the currents going
— the physical, the moral,
and the intellectual currents.
Hence the secret of happiness is
— something to do;
some congenial work.

Take away the occupation of all men,
and what a wretched world
it would be!

—John Burroughs

90/365 - Gloomday

My iPhone photo today on a not-so-Sunday.

90/365 - Gloomday
Originally uploaded by benexist

The Truth within

One of the stops during the recent trip to India was lunch at an original vintage single family home, historically preserved and used as a restaurant, visitor center, and shop. At each table is a quotation written on a piece of paper placed under glass as shown here. This is one of four pictures I took of the ones I thought were profound and meaningful. Below the picture, I've rewritten the quote for easy reading.

THE TRUTH WITHIN

First hear, then understand, and then,
leaving all distractions, shut your mind to
the outside influences and devote yourself
to developing the Truth within you.

There is the danger of frittering your
energies by taking up an idea only for its
novelty, and then giving it up for another
that is newer.

Take one thing up and do it, and see the
end of it, and before you have seen the end,
do not give it up. He who can become mad
with an idea, he alone, sees the Light.

~ Swami Vivekananda