Peace, War, Love etc.

iPhone photo of Mt Zion Cemetary in Brooklyn, NY (09/05/09)

iPhone photo of the Williamsburg Bridge (1903) plaque/mural (09/05/09)

Under the layers, it reads:

"CITY OF NEW YORK

WILLIAMSBURGH BRIDGE
DEPARTMENT OF BRIDGES"

Wiki News 09/09/09

"I heard the news today, O, Boy..."

(A Day in the Life - Lennon & McCartney, 1967)

That oh-so-crescendo build up gets me every time, yet Paul's verse makes me cringe like you just smelt an unfamiliar smell of your lover's secret possession.

Paolo Ucello

"The Battle of San Romano."

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Fighting for your own will is one thing, fighting another man's war is another.

Just read Sun Tzu's The Art of War (600 B.C.), which influenced a great number of leaders including Mao (illustration to be posted) and Napoleon. It was an easy, light read to digest in the subway during the morning commute - consisting of thirteen chapters in ways of defeating your enemy.

I'm not much of a violent guy (than what I used to be during silly drunken high school affairs) or have any particular "enemies" I want to defeat, yet it is full of memorable quotes including:

"Therefore one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful. Seizing the enemy without fighting is the most skillful."

and

"All warfare is based on deception."

In contrast, I read an interview containing essential words, or perhaps, skills, that most civilized human beings cannot seem to follow:

"All living things struggle to survive and the world would take care of itself nicely if people would show a little more kindness and understanding towards others in their own day-to-day struggles, and less self-centered whining. Common sense and taking responsibility for one's actions are two of the things we need most if we're going to make it into the next century."

-Todd Schorr (Juxtapoz Interview, Sept 2009 Issue)

Yong Shin ©