Have you ever searched for advice on the web? Thought so. What you quickly learn in browsing Amazon.com reviews, or Digg/Reddit comments, or a simple Google search, is that people have all kinds of bizarre opinions on what you should like, buy, do, think, be. Any best-seller, praised by critics, is bound to have its share of 1 star reviews. What to make of it all? Where to begin?
What I’ve come to realize about myself is that surrounded by such choice, I turn facile and sheepish. I am afraid to start, to take risk, to express my own opinion. I started this blog to begin, slowly, to empower myself. To re-develop, as Kurosawa’s Ikiru begs us to, a greed for life. To remember, as Wenders’ Wings of Desire does, that we can still know the wonder of our living experience as when the child was a child. To take the risk of being creative, as implored by Sir Ken Robinson.
As of this writing, the year ahead seems ready to draw and quarter every notion of personal identity which I currently shield myself in. The armor I wear is cracking and a new skin can be felt pressing out from underneath, ready to usher in a new glowing, sensitive, vulnerable age.
When human-kind first challenged gravity to a contest of wits and won, we gained a grand new perspective of our planet. First from the air, and then from such a height that there was none, we beheld the Earth in full and marveled at its beauty and fragility. It was the astronomer Carl Sagan who noted that with this new perspective of our beloved blue sphere from space, “…it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.”
Ha-ha! So here we go.
In Brief:
I’m a twenty something, B.F.A. holding, Long Islander. Some of my primary interests are photography, motion pictures, food, technology, nature, human nature, and queer identity. I worship at the church of Carl Sagan. Oh and brunch. I love brunch.
All photographs unless otherwise noted are by and © D.C. Hubbard, such as:
(photo by Phil)
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