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A Good Walk

May 15, 2020May 15, 2020 / Stephen / Leave a comment

“Few people know how to take a walk. The qualities are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good silence, and nothing too much.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson https://www.instagram.com/p/CAJlRTXjHqX/?igshid=afron4rc5mx9

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A New Hobby

March 7, 2019October 14, 2019 / Stephen / Leave a comment

https://youtu.be/G9laQ5E5kSw I recently bought a drone, more specifically, a DJI Mavic Air. I love it! Today, I needed a "mental health" day and spent a cold, quiet but joyous day at the park. Enjoy!

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The first image is a short verse I wrote almost five years ago to the date. It’s a pretty raw verse and speaks truthfully of my mindset having recovered from a traumatic series of events less than one year prior. The second image is evidence of said events, me at Yale New Haven Hospital in 2015 undergoing would be a long, tiresome, frustrating battery of tests. The next images are excerpts from my personal statement to Columbia University. That’s an awful lot of self-discovery and self-actualization in a very short period of time.
Springtime komorebi
#seagulls #naturephotography #outdoorphotography #wildlifephotography #birdphotography
Brants feeding on seaweed.
Just a snail making their way back to the water.
Venturing out with my camera has encouraged to get close to creatures I would otherwise avoid like snakes or these jellyfish. Atlantic sea nettles, aside from a moderate irritation from their sting, they are pretty harmless.
#westport #connecticut #fairfieldcounty #203 #shore #beach #connecticut_igers
One thing I love about the Long Island Sound, the piles of sea shells.
#opus40 #sculpturepark #landscape #rockart #saugerties #catskills #hudsonvalley #onlyinnewyork
“It has been my experience that gifted and talented persons are more likely to experience a type of depression referred to as existential depression. Although an episode of existential depression may be precipitated in anyone by a major loss or the threat of a loss which highlights the transient nature of life, persons of higher intellectual ability are more prone to experience existential depression spontaneously” from Dr. James T. Webb

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