Dried
I was lamenting this to a friend recently, both the loss of the fabulous over-the-top palate and cool and refreshing air that made for such fun shooting. My friend listened patiently to my goings on and then with a gentle, wry smile pointed to an image I was developing for a commercial job I was working on. “That looks pretty good for being ...dry” was their only comment.
It was just the thing I needed to hear to get me thinking about ‘Dry”
This blog entry is a photographic exploration of some of the colours and textures of life after the rains.
“A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth.”
― Frank Luntz
“Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.”
― Ray Douglas Bradbury
“The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.”
― Brenda Ueland
“A great lie is like a great fish on dry land;
it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you.
You have only to keep still, and it will die of itself.”
― George Crabbe
“Take some time in a quiet place to contemplate the balance between being of service -
both to this generation and to generations yet unborn - and renewing your vitality with play and celebration.
Without play, one becomes old and dry.
Without service, life becomes meaningless.”
― Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.”
― Robert Browning
“Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up.”
― Ken Hill
“Today is what life is all about.
When I desire for the future to arrive quickly, I become unable to savor today.
I can't live in tomorrow, and when I focus all my energies on the future, I shortchange today.
Likewise, fearing the future emasculates today, leaving it dry and lifeless.”
― Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.”
― Alice James
“Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.”
― Bliss Carman
“A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.”
― Henry David Thoreau
“He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.”
― P. G. Wodehouse
“Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.”
― Anthony Hopkins
“Expect to have hope rekindled.
Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways.
The dry seasons in life do not last.
The spring rains will come again.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach
“If I didn't write my soul would dry up and die.”
― Isabel Allende
“But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.”
― Olivia Wilde
“Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.”
― Bret Harte
“What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?... Or does it explode?”
― Langston Hughes
“I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.”
― Jack London
I look forward to seeing you out there.
Julian Ray
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