The Background [07] the Sky, the Sea and the Sun

"You cannot, in human experience,
rush into the light.

You have to go through the twilight
into the broadening day

before the noon comes

and the full sun is upon the landscape."

Woodrow Wilson

The Background [06] the Sky, the Sea and the Moon

"One's mind has a way of making itself up

in the background,

and it suddenly becomes clear

what one means to do."

A. C. Benson

"In the dim background of mind

we know what we ought to be doing

but somehow we cannot start."

William James

The Background 4 5

"The lighting is so important.

One thing that makes me nuts about the lighting now is that

they spend an enormous amount of time lighting the set,

the background.

But the most important thing in the scene is

the actor."

Donna Mills

"We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places

with background music.

 No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces,

which represent 30% of our musical experience."

Brian Eno

The Background 1 2 3

"Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring

of some secret imaginative background,

which never emerges explicitly

into its train of reasoning."

Alfred North Whitehead

"I just hope that our fans are people

who are inspired by music,

and just use our music

as a background or inspiration

for whatever it is they do."

Maynard James Keenan

"Man's unique reward, however, is that
while animals survive by
adjusting themselves to their background,
man survives by
adjusting his background to himself."
Ayn Rand

New Year Bloom !

 Happy Lunar New Year !

Cassandra Black

" Every man has his secret sorrows

which the world knows not;

and often times we call a man cold

when he is only sad. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Cutie March

“ War I abhor,

 and yet how sweet The sound

 along the marching street

 Of drum and fife,

 and I forget Wet eyes of widows,

 and forget Broken old mothers,

 and the whole Dark butchery without a soul. ”

Seneca the Younger

" Life is a series of experiences,

 each of which makes us bigger,

 even though it is hard to realize this.

 For the world was built to develop character,

 and we must learn that the setbacks

 and grieves which we endure

 help us in our marching onward. ”

Henry Ford