HAMSTER WHEEL

 

“They said, congratulations you got what it takes.

They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes.”

 

~ Bob Dylan ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art by Kai taken in Paris in June 2019.

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ABSINTHE

 

“Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.”

 

~ Ethel Mumford ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of “In A Café,” a painting by Edgar Degas, taken in Paris in June 2019.

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THE BEAUTY OF A BOOK

 

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”

 

~ Henry Miller ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2019.

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MEANWHILE, OVER IN THE CORNER

 

“When it comes to impending,

unavoidable extinction,

ignorance is bliss.”

 

~ Darren Shan ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2019.

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THE SKIN OF CONSCIOUSNESS

 

“Close your eyes and see the beauty.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in July 2016. Courtesy DePiero and Associates.

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SINGING BOWL

 

“The knower of the mystery of sound

knows the mystery of the whole universe.”

 

~ Hazrat Inayat Khan ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in January 2019.

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WORDS LIKE CLAY

 

“I prefer the absurdity of writing poems

to the absurdity of not writing poems.”

 

~ Wisława Szymborska ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a Roman burial urn taken in Mainz, Germany in July 1987.

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NATURE MORTE

 

“…life, by definition, is never still.”

 

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2017.

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EIGHT HEARTS

 

“My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.”

 

~ William Sharp ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.

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LA FENÊTRE DE LA CONSCIENCE

 

“We are stardust,
Billion year old carbon,
We are golden…”

 

~ Joni Mitchell ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2018.

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