MAY 24, 2004
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Renee Tamara Watabe
Verona, NJ
What a Woman Wants
Image Five: Kiss Me Again
Okay, so I got carried away with the kiss photos. But I am trying to be in the moment, here. The moment is evolving... anyway, every woman wants to be carried away by a kiss…
Wendy Newton
Washington Heights, New York City
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I took a series of pictures of my mom, and she was doing this incredibly self-conscious diva-queen thing about not wanting her picture taken. In the other shots she looks like she's going to sear through me with her eyes, but this one feels like it captures her. Bratty, bold, maybe a little mean. I really liked interacting with her in this way, with the camera as shield. I felt immune from the part of her that used to really be able to sear through me.
PP
New York City
My Apartment
I can't seem to keep it neat, and it makes me happy when it is. My mother's wise ignored words are the answer ... "clean as you go." I forget about cause and effect: it's great i can just put aside the materials I was just working with but, then all the surfaces are spoken for; so I turn to the computer to get away ... only to find my desktop with many files that someone didn't put away! But writing this I feel truly thankful that it's not in a war zone. George Bush has a little issue with cause and effect ... in this simplistic yet unrealistic world, there is no to considering the link. Where "evil" exists — and under his policies it is growing rapidly — it must be crushed with overwhelming violence, causing more terrorists. Ugh. I will imagine peace while cleaning today.
Anthony Gonzalez
Washington Heights, New York City
Dick Cheney's Mourning Cup of Java
Dick Cheney must secretly harbor intense feelings of contempt for the president. Bush is such a lightweight out among the big boys, but it's his ball so they have to let him play. To quote Ted Widmer in the New York Times Book Review, "Can anyone imagine Bush's father insisting that he would submit to questioning only in the presence of Dan Quayle?"
The reports from Iraq get uglier. Today's rationalizations and equivocations ring more hollow than yesterday's, which rang more hollow than those that came before. This administration's attempts at spin begin to parody Baghdad Bob. You may recall Saddam Hussein's Minister of Information, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, whose absurdly optimistic pronouncements brought some comic relief to coverage of the war. A Baghdad Bob quote from before the fall of Baghdad: "Who are in control? They are not in control of anything. They don't even control themselves." (He had no idea.)
Tim Folzenlogen
Washington Heights, New York City
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Growth is a lot like suicide.
It's personal.
The desire has to come from deep within.
You have to really want to do it, in order to succeed.
It's often a matter of letting go of who you are, dying really, so that the new understanding can fill the void.
Peter Ferko
Washington Heights, New York City
At First Glance: tulips
I'm trying to bring the consciousness used in yoga practice to the rest of life. It seems to be happening for me more and more, even though it often doesn't work at all. A student in my yoga class today handed me a book, saying what I talked about made her think I'd get a lot out of it. I read this:
The transformation of human consciousness is no longer a luxury, so to speak, available only to a few isolated individuals, but a necessity if humankind is not to destroy itself. At the present time, the dysfunction of the old consciousness and the arising of the new are both accelerating. Paradoxically, things are getting worse and better at the same time, although the worse is more apparent because it makes so much "noise."
-from Stillness Speaks, by Eckhart Tolle
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