One of my favorite photographers of the last few years has been Chris Jordan. I came to know of him through his collection entitled Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption. These photographs show the amazing amount of waste that we have in our country. Large walls of crushed cars, shipping containers, and recycled paper; as well as seas of cell phones, circuit boards, and glass, and other things we deem disposable.
Last night he was on the Colbert Report talking about his new collection Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait. These new pieces are mind blowing! He uses a lot of the same subjects (and a few new ones), but in a way that represents statistics of our gluttony, waste, and some of the social issues that we are refusing to address.
Take a look for yourself. It is an eye-opening experience that really gets you thinking about your own lifestyle, and how you can be more responsible in your purchases, consumption, and waste.
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Thursday, October 4, 2007
A Quote-in-a-Quote to Ponder
God Save me from coping
God help me to join, not separate
Help me to be with and in, not apart from
Show me the way of savoring, not controlling
Dear God, Hear my prayer
Make me forever cope-less
(Gerald May’s The Wisdom of Wilderness)
We were never taught to stop, to savor, and to hold our feelings of fear, anger, grief or loneliness. We were taught to get rid of our pain before we learned its lessons. Maybe that’s why wisdom is hard to find in our culture. – Richard Rohr
I love this quote! Our society teaches us that fear, anger, grief, and loneliness fall under the category of 'negative,' and as something to be avoided. Fear is weak, anger is deemed uncivilized and therefore not acceptable, grief only holds you back, and loneliness is easily remedied.
Whatever it is -- work through it, get over it, and move on.
By missing the value of learning from these emotions, we only teach people to stuff them away and act like they are behind them when they are really growing in the shadows. There is a lot to learn about self, about living, about grace, about choosing life and blessings in our reactions to these 'negative' emotions and their sources.
Learning to face our trials and disappointments in a healthy way will only help us to grow stronger through our experiences -- the good and the bad.
God help me to join, not separate
Help me to be with and in, not apart from
Show me the way of savoring, not controlling
Dear God, Hear my prayer
Make me forever cope-less
(Gerald May’s The Wisdom of Wilderness)
We were never taught to stop, to savor, and to hold our feelings of fear, anger, grief or loneliness. We were taught to get rid of our pain before we learned its lessons. Maybe that’s why wisdom is hard to find in our culture. – Richard Rohr
I love this quote! Our society teaches us that fear, anger, grief, and loneliness fall under the category of 'negative,' and as something to be avoided. Fear is weak, anger is deemed uncivilized and therefore not acceptable, grief only holds you back, and loneliness is easily remedied.
Whatever it is -- work through it, get over it, and move on.
By missing the value of learning from these emotions, we only teach people to stuff them away and act like they are behind them when they are really growing in the shadows. There is a lot to learn about self, about living, about grace, about choosing life and blessings in our reactions to these 'negative' emotions and their sources.
Learning to face our trials and disappointments in a healthy way will only help us to grow stronger through our experiences -- the good and the bad.
A Fun Quote
I found this quote on some British school mates' website, and it struck me as exceptionally funny (although you must read it in a British accent, as I did in my head). Maybe that is why I found it so funny -- I have little British voices in my head...
I think a great name to have would be Hans. Then, if someone asked you your name, you could just hold up your hands. Then they would say, "Ten?" Then you would shake your head no. People are stupid sometimes.
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