Gnome and Grandma Vicki at Lake Tuscaloosa.
CARLOS CASTANEDA: "The trick of socialization is to convince us that the descriptions we agree upon define the limits of the real world. What we call reality is only one way of seeing the world, a way that is supported by social consensus."
Prophet and the Eldest pose for piano recital photos.
FERNANDO PESSOA:"Civilization consists in giving an inappropriate name to something and then dreaming what results from that. And in fact the false name and the true dream do create a new reality. The object really does become other, because we have made it so.
We manufacture realities. We use the raw materials we always used but the form lent it by art effectively prevents it from remaining the same."
A table made out of pinewood is a pine-tree but it is also a table."
We sit down at the table not at the pine-tree…"
