Lump...

neck lump
Originally uploaded by -djb-

Things have been kinda rough the last week or so. Today a friend of mine noticed I have a lump on my neck... BLARGGGG!!

... glad to be going home this week, though :)

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Like you'll never see me again

Crucifix @ Notre Dame
Originally uploaded by -djb-

It may be cliché, but it usually takes something drastic for us to change.

Today, one of my friends died. Just like that.

He was running a half marathon and sometime near the end, his heart gave out.

It's also cliché to say (or pretend) that you're living life to the fullest or like it's the last day of your life when you actually expect to have another day to continue. Another day to finish what you started. Another day to tell someone you love them for the first time, or remind someone that you do. We need to do it at least every now and then.

[Alicia Keys - Like you'll never see me again.]

If I had no more time
No more time left to be here
Would you cherish what we had?
Was it everything that you were looking for?
If I couldn't feel your touch
And no longer were you with me
I'd be wishing you were here
To be everything that I'd be looking for
I don't wanna forget the present is a gift
And I don't wanna take for granted the time you may have here with me
'Cause Lord only knows another day is not really guaranteed

So every time you hold me
Hold me like this is the last time
Every time you kiss me
Kiss me like you'll never see me again
Every time you touch me
Touch me like this is the last time
Promise that you'll love me
Love me like you'll never see me again

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quotes + change

Sun + Flower
Originally uploaded by -djb-

cleaning up my profile, I'm posting my old quotes. It feels like an appropriate time to do some re-adjusting, re-evaluating, re-tweaking.

"There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

- I just called my dad (in Pakistan) and after the election, no more death to America!

- Everyone shut up! I'm calling CNN

- I thought all your parties were drunken orgies
- They can't all be perfect

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

- My family did not escape communist China so that I would end up living in a quad

I have the gift of neither the spoken nor the written word, especially if I have to say something about myself or my work... Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist, the only notable thing - ought to look carefully at my pictures and try and see in them what I am and what I want to do.

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.

Cuando deseas algo con todo el corazón, todo el Universo conspira para que realices tu deseo.
-- Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist"

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