Sit down..chill out

"The people I know personally who cannot sit down and chill out for a while are people who have not really come to terms with their emotional, inner story. They’re staying a step ahead of it. I did that through my twenties and thirties. In my forties, I stopped working so hard for a bit and confronted a certain amount of stuff about myself. I think that one of the impetuses for working outrageously hard and traveling constantly and always being on deadline is that your personality can’t catch up with you."

~Sebastian Junger

Could not have said it better myself...and so, I won't.

Image: Tina Pfeiffer, ©2010 - apt3 photography.

And I quote...Epictetus

"It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows."

~Epictetus

Epictetus (Greek: Ἐπίκτητος; ca. 55–ca. 135) was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was probably born a slave at Hierapolis, Phrygia (present day Pamukkale, Turkey), and lived in Rome until his exile to Nicopolis in northwestern Greece, where he lived most of his life and died. His teachings were noted down and published by his pupil Arrian in his Discourses.

Epictetus taught that philosophy is a way of life and not just a theoretical discipline. To Epictetus, all external events were determined by fate, and are thus beyond our control, but we can accept whatever happens calmly and dispassionately. Individuals, however, are responsible for their own actions which they can examine and control through rigorous self-discipline. Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power. As part of the universal city that is the universe, human beings have a duty of care to all fellow humans. The idea was that a person who followed these precepts would achieve happiness.

While I don't agree with his philosophical ideas I do love this quote!

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And I quote...William Morris

"Have nothing in your houses which you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful."

~William Morris (1836-1896)



Born in Walthamstow, Essex, on March 24, 1836, William Morris was the son of a wealthy businessman. As such, he enjoyed a comfortable childhood before going to Marlborough and Exeter, Oxford.

By the 1860s, the multi-talented Morris decided that his creative future lay in the field of the decorative arts. His career as a designer began when he decorated the Red House, Bexleyheath, which had been built for him by Phillip Webb. Morris formed Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. in 1861. The firm (later renamed Morris & Company) was particularly well-known for its stained glass, examples of which can be seen in churches throughout Britain. Morris produced dozens of designs that are often characterized by intricate intertwining fruit, flower, and foliage patterns.



In 1890, Morris founded the Kelmscott Press near his last home at Kelmscott House in Hammersmith. Inspired by Italian Renaissance and medieval German typography, Morris designed three typefaces for the Press: Golden, Chaucer, and Troy. More than sixty-six volumes were printed by the Kelmscott Press, the most impressive of which was its magnificent edition of Chaucer which was published in 1896.


morris original wallpaper design, morris adjustable chair

Find out more about Morris HERE.

And I quote...Miles Davis

"You want to know how I started playing trumpet? My father bought me one, and I studied the trumpet. And everybody I heard that I liked, I picked up things from."

~Miles Davis, circa 1969

Miles Davis was one of the greatest visionaries and most important figures in jazz history. He was born in a well-to-do family in East St. Louis. He became a local phenom and toured locally with Billy Eckstine's band while he was in high school. He moved to New York under the guise of attending the Julliard School of Music. However, his real intentions were to hook up with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. He quickly climbed up the ranks while learning from Bird and Diz and became the trumpet player for Charlie Parker's group for nearly 3 years. His first attempt at leading a group came in 1949 and was the first of many occurrences in which he would take jazz in a new direction...

...more on Miles FOUND HERE.

And I quote...Andy Warhol

"They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."

~Andy Warhol


Photobooth Self Portrait - Andy Warhol, 1963

More Warhol HERE.

And I quote...Louis Brandeis

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

~Louis Brandeis


Tabernacle - by Tina, Pfeiffer Photos copyright 2009

And I quote...Eleanor Roosevelt

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

~Eleanor Roosevelt


Brick Fence by Tina

Photo copyright Pfeiffer Photos 2009 - all rights reserved.

And I quote...Alfred Hitchcock, Frank Lloyd Wright & Fred Allen

"TV is chewing gum for the eyes." - Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)

"Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some." - Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)

"Television is a medium because anything well done is rare." - Fred Allen



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