At TED, artist Cesar Kuriyama explains his approach trying to remembering the many little things of his life, one second at a time. He reminds himself to capture (through video) the bad moments as well as the good. This project encourages him to live life in an interesting way, every day. This TED video includes an example of his engaging work:
My relationship with the Boy Scouts of America was not the most pleasant. I was an oddity, to be sure. I think I was at one time the only—only—second class scout to be a patrol leader. Second class. For those who may not have been through the quasi-military organization, the…
It may surprise people who know me that I am not completely anti-gun. It seems like something I might be. I don’t like loud noises and I don’t like violence, and killing hurts me. I have to avert my eyes form a lot of TV and movies. But the gun thing is no longer simple for me. The last time I was stridently anti-gun was while lecturing my father about the dangers of guns. He happened to be holding off a midnight intruder with a hammer and wanted me to go get his gun. I was a senior in high school and I knew everything and I refused . . .
Doubtless whatever I say, someone will find fault, take offense, withdraw into positions, place guard dogs at the gates and lookouts in the towers. We are a people enamored of the idea of violence. We like the idea that when it gets down to the proverbial nitty gritty we can and will kick ass and take names. Americans are tough, not to be messed with, ready to exact justice by knuckles or 9.mm. . . .
I make a habit of sharing my favorite quotes at this site. Here is another batch: "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Aristotle "They’ll say we’re disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war.” Howard Zinn "The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another." William James. “Activism is my rent for living on the planet.” ― Alice Walker "Better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie." Russian Proverb "Thompson is equally vociferous on matters of faith. [...] "I'm an atheist; I suppose you can call me a sort of libertarian anarchist. I regard religion with fear and suspicion. It's not enough to say that I don't believe in God. I actually regard the system as distressing: I am offended by some of the things said in the Bible and the Koran, and I refute them." She knows she's being controversial, but she believes passionately in what she says, and passionately believes it needs saying. "I think that the Bible as a system of moral guidance in the 21st century is insufficient, to put it mildly, she continues, frowning a little. I feel quite strongly that we need a new moral lodestone if we can't rely on what is inside our own selves. Which I think, actually, is pretty reliable." " Emma Thompson “Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.” ― George Orwell “I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.” Mark Twain “I want an avowed atheist in the White House. When time comes to push that button, I want whoever's making the decision to understand that once it's pushed, it's over. Finito. They're not gonna have lunch with Jesus. Won't be deflowering 72 virgins on the great shag carpet of eternity, or reincarnated as a cow. I want someone making that decision who believes life on this Earth isn't just a dress rehearsal for something better -- but the only shot we get.”― Quentin R. Bufogle “The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” Malcolm X “I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence” Malcolm X “The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That - with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word 'success' - is our national disease.” William James "Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do." Voltaire "I don't want to believe. I want to know." Carl Sagan "Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible." Frank Zappa "It is the mark of an educated mind to entertain a thought without accepting it." Aristotle "When I give food o the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist." Dom Helder Camara, Brazilian Archbishop "I'd boycott everything Wall Street made if they actually made anything." Someecards http://www.someecards.com/ “I was a loner as a child. I had an imaginary friend -- I didn't bother with him.” George Carlin