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Star Gazing

The Art of Overcoming Fear

Tonight I seem to be a little ball of nerves and I can't seem to do anything but panic and worry about things that are going on in my life. I have nights like this, where certain things seem to do nothing but loom in my mind and make me uneasy and scared and in need of some kind of comfort. Tonight I had a comforting thought, that I believe was placed there by The Good Lord, and I feel that maybe I should share it and maybe it will help some one else out too.
-J

"It seems like our greatest fears are not the things that go on in the physical world around us, but are within us. The things that hold us back and make us weak are mere thoughts that float inside our heads. Nothing can hold us back unless we allow it to, it is only a matter of overcoming our fears and mastering ourselves that will lead us to conquer whatever we set our eyes on. We are each our greatest enemy but our inner strength is what we must rely on to overcome, and to see it through the day. Every day is a new beginning and a new challenge, and every day we must strive master ourselves in order to be strong. It is both a frightening and comforting thought to know that our fears lie deep within us, because in that sense they are a part of us but we can master them. That is how you master yourself; you must master your fears, because in the end – we have nothing to fear but fear itself."
-J. Hendrix

A Little Archaeology

I realize that I haven't posted in over a month, dear reader, and I appologize. Seems like I haven't been staying true to my promises.

I got back from an archaeolocal dig on Mt. Rainier in mid-August, I stayed up there for five weeks and was a member of a crew that was excavating a Native American house site. I figured that the dig would either make me or break me when it came to archaeology, I honestly didn't think that I could stay in a tent for five weeks, but it turns out that it was easier than I expected, and the experience has changed the way I am, and the way I think. Make-up and clothes are fun but they aren't important any more, and I miss being able to look up and see the night sky so clearly, and if you know me, you'll know how much I love star-gazing.

A nice little frog that made itself comfortable on my tent

My first artifact!

What I saw every day on my way to the site

I was always covered in dirt

Ready for my first day!

My lunch spot. The mountain was covered in fog

Yes, I believe so...

Swallowed in the Sea

This song has some of the most beautiful lyrics that I've heard, and it's been going through my mind all day. Only Chris Martin could make a sad song cheer me up.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. - Oscar Wilde

Clouds, like pirate ships passing,
on a calm and stormless sea,
and stars like grey dabloons
dropping carelessly.

The ghost towns in the night,
have falen into peace.
And the dragon in the forest
has sunken sound to sleep.

It is a blessing in the darkness,
to walk under a cloak of invisibility.
And the winds are calm tonight,
on the Sea of Galilee.

The oracle at Delphi told me,
I'd meet a Persian prince.
And that my sould would be calm thereafter,
and it has been ever since.

I filled a flask from the fountain of youth,
and sipped it at the top of an Egyptian alter,
where O'Ryan let me shoot his bow,
but we said our goodbyes soon after.

I want to argue with Zues once,
I think I could win that fight.
I've never been to Spain,
but my lover says it's alright.

I haven't yet solved the Sphinx's question,
the answer to that damn riddle.
I think it has something to do with a cow,
and a cat who plays a fiddle.

Dreams are all there are,
that speak to us in the night,
and morning comes to chase them,
into shadows out of sight.

And the evening's lonely wanderer,
can crawl sorely into bed.
And the sunshine's golden rays,
will never touch her head.

We will walk with dreams tomorrow,
after we chase the sun down in the west.
Goodnight my lovely dreamer,
and with morning's light have rest...

-JH
July 2, 2012

"Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam: that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals." - P.A. Caron de Beaumarchais

“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.” - Ernest Hemingway