Section from a book that I keep coming back too

Random Johnny Cash Reference For The Day

"...Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. "He that will lose his life, the same shall save it," is not a piece of mysticism for saints and heroes. It is a piece of everyday advice for sailors or mountaineers. It might be printed in an Alpine guide or a drill book. This paradox is the whole principle of courage; even of quite earthly or quite brutal courage. A man cut off by the sea may save his life if he will risk it on the precipice.

He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it. A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying. He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine..."

Herein lies a lesson that I need to learn.



I have to learn.




I must learn.

Fall in Moscow

The First DSLR Shots . . . be patient - I'm learning

Salt

Light

Waiting for the Bus

Todays blog is brought to you by the number two

Almost Alone


Ramps and Ramps

Self Portrait ~ Sort of . . .

Light

Tree on the Mall

By the way - one of these was shot on a point and shoot - not the SLR can you determine which one?

New Camera and Weekend Adventures

I'm going to bed - in a few days I'll write something and put in captions -till then enjoy!