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This is my city of Lego. It is 8 feet long, 3.5 feet wide, with several spires reaching over 2 feet in height, and consists of over 33,000 pieces of Lego:
Movies
The entire Star Wars saga, Fight Club, Usual Suspects, the Prestige, V for Vendetta, Rain Man, Dances with Wolves, No Way Out, Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Hero, House of Flying Daggers, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Lord of the Rings, the Abyss, Rocky, Indiana Jones, Phantom of the Opera, Kill Bill, Jerry McGuire, The Dark Knight, The Departed, Casino Royale, Matrix, Dark City
Television
Lost, M*A*S*H*, The West Wing, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Enterprise, Stargate: Atlantis, NYPDBlue, ER, Seinfeld, Friends, Raymond, Good Times, Sanford and Son, The Jeffersons, All In the Family, Frasier, Family Guy, The Simpsons, Leno, Conan, That 70's Show,
-Those who face the unbearable, and bear it anyway...
-Those who face the undoable, and do it anyway...
-Those who have no choice but to give up, and then dont.
-Those who remember their dreams and refuse to give up.
-Those who remind me of my dreams when I want to give up.
-Soldiers, police, and firefighters who risk their lives doing the things that we can't do...
-so that we can be free and safe to do the things that we can.
Art Institute of Ft. Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale,FL
Graduated: 1990
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Associate's Degree
Major: Fashion Photography
Minor: Portraiture
inSpireShine Good morning everyone. How was your sleep? I never got any last night. It's gonna be a loooooooong day today. Posted 22 hours ago view more
I am both positive and negative, both light and dark, both a comedy and a tragedy, both fun and ranting. I have at times not been happy with my life and where it seemed to be going, but who among us hasn't gone through similar dark times and had to face obstacles and trials?
Even in the ever-present darkness, my darkness, there is a light striving to break through the gloom and shine outward, and that is also depicted in my writings via my deep thoughts, random philosophies, and my comical observations and occasional ramblings.
In one of my novels, one I had completed long ago but had not yet had published, there is a man who goes through an ordeal that destroys his dreams. Several years later in the storyline, I wrote about him being near suicide, of sitting at his window in the middle of the night with a blade held against his wrist, gazing at the darkness outside and using it to symbolize the darkness in his heart. But then he noticed a malfunctioning streetlight, flickering on and off in the darkness. The light would come on for a few seconds, driving away the darkness, only to flicker off and be consumed by it again.
The character noted that the light was in competition with the darkness, struggling to overcome it. After flickering on and off for some time, fighting back but yet always being overcome by the darkness once again, suddenly the light flickered on and stayed on for the rest of the night, somehow strong enough again to repel the darkness. He related that to himself and wondered how he would find a light within him to repel his own darkness. At that point he put the knife back in the drawer, feeling hope in what had seemed like a message to him.
That is what this blog is about; what it is meant to capture and convey: that weak, flickering light within us all, fighting back against the overwhelming darkness to overcome it and light the way forward through life. This blog was conceived because there is a light within me that inspires me and gives me hope to move forward even on the darkest of nights, on the most winding of roads. You have that light too; we all do. It is the light within. I call it inspireshine.
Don't get me wrong; I'm no Tony Robbins. Hell, I'm one of the most negative people I know. But I overcome my negative nature from time to time, sometimes so often and profoundly that I surprise myself; and somehow I motivate myself and inspire others.
Some time ago a new friend told me that I was the most positive person he and his wife had ever met.
That took me by surprise, and I revealed to him that I was extremely negative at times, and had many regrets for what I'd lost in the past, sometimes more so than positive ideas for the future.
He told me, "But you don't show that at all, and you make us feel good being around you."
I am either a good actor, or else I believe my own words when I say that at times our perception is a deception; that there are better days coming around the bend, and better ways of looking at the days that pass, and the times we face.
There is a fine line and a vast divide between life and living, for it is easy to be held back by darkness and be living, yet not feel alive. It is easy to feel the light shrouded and the way blocked, and it takes a lot of strength at times to move forward; even more strength to believe that moving forward when darkness is falling can make a difference.
Some people call it willpower. Some call it drive or inspiration, an inner fire. For me the inner fire is art, writing, and deep thought. That’s what gives me life, what makes me alive. I call it imagination, creativity, inner light; the light within....inSpireShine.
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Who I'd like to meet: Those with imagination and creativity; those with deep thoughts and deeper minds; those who like to laugh, who can make me laugh too; those who seek to be inspired, who can inspire me back; writers, artists, musicians, DJs, philosophers, and inspiring and entertaining bloggers.
Good morning. I miss you, luvie. Sorry I haven't been around much. My jobs have me really busy. I hardly log on anymore but I have time now. Hope all is well, my friend. Take care and have a great weekend! Love ya!
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