Street Level Entrance in Back

This is the blog of Gray Stephen Windbigler, Photographer, observer, and rider of the concrete wave.

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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust (via justusz)
Have compassion for everyone you meet,
even if they don’t want it.
What appears bad manners, an ill temper
or cynicism is always a sign of things no ears
have heard, no eyes have seen.
You do not know what wars are going on
down there where the spirit meets the bone.
Miller Williams. Thank you, Slow Muse. (via crashinglybeautiful)
To see is to forget
the name of the
thing one sees.
Paul Valery, Poet / Philosopher (1871 - 1945). Thanks to the Tao of Photography. (via crashinglybeautiful)

me & tina

Gray and Tina

She Made that dress.

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vanagonitis

Took my Vanagon to the shop last friday to have someone else troubleshoot it as I don’t have a place to do so or the time right now.  The Mechanic called me back in short order and told me the ECU was bad and that he could order a replacement.  He ordered it on Monday and it still isn’t here…I want my van back, I miss it.  I also want the weather to get better so I can work on my other van (‘85).  The previous owner said it had a bad ECU…I have yet to even try to start it as it has been sitting for two years so I need to check all fluids and change the oil and gas (if there is any) first.

Here they are.  The gold one is the Daily Driver and the blue one is the project.

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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot. D.H. Lawrence (via crashinglybeautiful)
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of. Benjamin Franklin
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mygoodbyeblues asked: Dude, I didn't know you live in SW MO! So do I (:

a great place to be, so cold these days that even my old vw doesn’t want to go out.

A person who is beginning to sense the suffering of life is, at the same time, beginning to awaken to deeper realities, truer realities. For suffering smashes to pieces the complacency of our normal ­fictions about reality, and forces us to come alive in a special sense—to see carefully, to feel deeply, to touch ourselves and our worlds in ways we have heretofore avoided. Ken Wilber, quoted in “The Thorn and the Rose,” compiled and edited by Anthony Williams. From ARCS in our new Spring Issue: “Suffering.” (via parabola-magazine)

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Ice Storm Midwest

Another year, yet another ice storm here in southwest MO. 

To be fair, it isn’t really that bad just yet but if it keeps up like it is we will be in the same position as years past.