The most vital things in the look of a landscape endure only for a moment. Work should be done from memory; memory of that vital moment.
I would never want to see myself viewed as beating the drums of war,. . . but I would rather live with that image than look into the mirror and see a member of Congress who failed to do his duty.
Microsoft looks at new ideas, they don't evaluate whether the idea will move the industry forward, they ask, 'how will it help us sell more copies of Windows?
Maybe all of these different possibilities exist at the same time, like each moment we live has a thousand other moments layered underneath it that look different.
Every so often I would look at my women friends who were happily married and didn't cook, and I would always find myself wondering how they did it. Would anyone love me if I couldn't cook? I always thought cooking was part of the package: Step right up, it's Rachel Samstat, she's bright, she's funny and she can cook!
Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.
The world is going to be less biologically rich for quite some time in the future. We are always weeping that we live in such a diminished world, but we are experiencing a biologically rich world compared to what the future will look like. Bearing witness to that is a beautiful gift.