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Wish Fulfillment · The Law of Attraction

The ElixirFour Years of Magical Thinking

Imagination was the preview. Travel became the proof. Photography gave the fleeting moment a form that could return.

HawaiiWorld ToursWorld CruisePhotographyMagical Thinking

Everyone has a photographic memory, but not everyone has film.

Thanks to digital—and my trusted camera—who cares? Just point and shoot, and you capture snapshots of moments. I am an extremely talkative person. Yet I like taking pictures because they speak for themselves.

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Ordinary World · The Call

The Mind Leaves First

Before movement comes the ability to see beyond the room you are standing in.

My definition of thinking is when your mind is separate from your body. Some call it dreaming. I call it using your imagination. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

That is where you can leap long distances, go forward and backward in time, walk through solid brick walls, and never age.

The Asymmetric EquationComfort Protected Too Long = Regret CompoundedThe dream becomes a call when remaining still starts to cost more than movement.
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Answer the Call

Manufacture the Experience

Magical Thinking becomes useful when imagination is followed by a decision.

My definition of Magical Thinking—or MT—is when we can manufacture experiences in our mind and then later attract these situations into our life.

The mind is, after all, what the brain does. Put simply: you attract into your life whatever you consistently think about.

Four Years of Magical Thinking title artwork
Four years of imagining, moving, and preserving the evidence.
The Asymmetric EquationClarity + Risk + Time = Asymmetric ReturnSeeing the future is not enough. The return begins when the body follows the mind.
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Foreign Land

Distance Changes the Signal

Hawaii, the world tours, the Maldives, and the World Cruise turned inner pictures into external landscapes.

Maldives seascape from the travel archive
The Maldives: one of imagination’s coming attractions, made visible.
The Asymmetric EquationSilence + Distance = SignalFar from the inherited script, attention begins to hear itself.
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Trials

Make It Up So Truly

The discipline is not fantasy. It is sustaining attention long enough for imagination to become direction.

“That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best—make it all up—but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.”Ernest Hemingway
The Asymmetric EquationChosen Suffering + Sustained Attention = MeaningThe picture costs more than the shutter click. It asks for the journey.
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The Elixir

The Photographs Speak for Themselves

The obsolete Flash slideshows have been converted into stable archive routes. Each original album remains one click away.

2009

World Tour Cruises

The horizon expands and the photographic record travels with it.

Open 2009 Album
2010

World Tour Cruises

Repetition turns travel from novelty into a way of seeing.

Open 2010 Album
2011

World Cruise

The imagined life arrives in full scale and leaves a visual field report.

Open 2011 Album
The Asymmetric EquationExperience + Form = ElixirA moment disappears. A photograph lets it return carrying meaning.

The Golden Thread

Imagine it. Move toward it. Give it form.

Magical Thinking is not the refusal of reality. At its best, it is the rehearsal that makes a different reality possible.

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