waiting for orders

waiting for orders, originally uploaded by mquest foto.

Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.
Walt Whitman

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“All these things have you said of beauty.
Yet in truth you spoke not of her but of needs unsatisfied,
And beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.
It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth,
But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted.
It is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear,
But rather an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears.
It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a wing attached to a claw,
But rather a garden for ever in bloom and a flock of angels for ever in flight.
People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.
But you are life and you are the veil.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and your are the mirror.”

Kahlil Gibran

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2 months of Chemo

2 months of chemo nearly killed me. I am back to work and sleepy all the time.

I just hope my taste buds come back soon.

Good Night

wave and say hi

wave and say hi, originally uploaded by mquest foto.

Grandpa and Mquest Jr

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
Joseph Campbell

sudden

sudden, originally uploaded by mquest foto.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
Soren Kierkegaard

C is for cookie and other things

A flurry of doctor appointments await me. 6 weeks of chemotherapy should start in about a week and a half. Next week I will go to a orientation for the chemotherapy process. The good news in they think this is 95% curable with a 15% chance of coming back later in life. The odds do not seem all that bad.

I will post more later.

(do not worry I have all types of fun observations to discuss about this process)

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With a black circle of coffee

I have a lot of reading to do

I have a lot of reading to do, originally uploaded by mquest foto.

Every silver lining's got a
Touch of grey

I will get by / I will get by
I will get by / I will survive

Words by Robert Hunter; music by Jerry Garcia
(My new mantra)

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My creation

My creation
Originally uploaded by mquest foto.

Originally uploaded by mquest foto.

My creation
Originally uploaded by mquest foto.

Originally uploaded by mquest foto.

he gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
Albert Camus
(Thankfully children do not see it as labor.)

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The smallest minority on the earth is the individual
Mike Quest AKA Mquest

one more

Tonight the bouncer biker guy is doing double duty.
He asks if he can remove the dead soldiers from our table. I have often referred to empty bottles as dead soldiers, but it seems odd when it comes out of the mouth of a guy that probably has a POW/MIA flag proudly hanging over his couch.

Destiny engineer-

Mquest Jr has been taking Karate classes. It is rather comical to watch the children do their own thing while the teacher attempts to keep control. The teacher does a good job of keeping calm.

The class has given me a great opportunity to take pictures.

Originally uploaded by mquest foto.

I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
Samuel Beckett

Originally uploaded by mquest foto.

Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.
Horace

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Day! Faster and more fast, O'er night's brim, day boils at last; Boils, pure gold, o'er the cloud-cup's brim.
Robert Browning Hamilton

I am back

Hello all-
Life is moving quick.

A few weeks ago I broke the camera. I was able to borrow a replacement camera to tide me over. The nice people at cannon have fixed it and they claim it is in the mail. The lesson is that I need to have a back up camera. (enter dream mode)