G. Steve Journal

Transience

Not entirely sure, but I think this helps explain the attraction we have (I have) to photography -- as a way of "stopping time" and, in so doing, not only keeping it from advancing into the future but also allowing us to more closely examine the precious captured moment...

“Is there anything we know more intimately than the fleetingness of time, the transience of each and every moment?” 

                                                                                                                             —— Rebecca Goldstein

Running Over

Another telling and poetic excerpt from the work of author Annie Dillard:

This, then is the extravagant landscape of the world, given, given with pizzazz, given in good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over.

[Pilgrim at Tinker Creek]

Pure Devotion

Author Annie Dillard's observation about living in the present is equally descriptive of the artist's ideal state of mind when creating or performing:

What I call innocence is the spirit’s unself-conscious state at any moment of pure devotion to any object. It is at once a receptiveness and total concentration.

[ from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek]

 

Always Ideal

Advice worth heeding, literally as well as metaphorically:

...take the path of natural light. Embrace the idea that the conditions will never be ideal, which of course makes them always ideal. Because the thing about natural light is that whatever it is, is.

                                                                                                                                –– Seth Godin