WAITINGS

 

“If you wait, you grow old, nothing more.”

 

~ Walter Bargen ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in October 2019. Courtesy of VollMond GmbH.

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THE GREAT EQUALIZER

 

“The two most important days in your life

are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”

 

~ Mark Twain ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of Rodin’s sculpture Iris (detail) in the Musée Rodin taken in Paris in June 2019.

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LAUGHS IN YOUR FACE

 

“Five to one, baby, one in five,

No one here gets out alive…”

 

~ Jim Morrison ~

 

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

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L’OMBRE DE LA MORT

 

“Life itself is but the shadow of death,

and souls departed but the shadows of the living.”

 

~ Thomas Browne ~

 

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

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THE LIGHT

 

“The trouble with people is not that they don’t know

but that they know so much that ain’t so.”

 

~ Josh Billings ~

 

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

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CYMBALINE

 

“What’s done cannot be undone.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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

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WEE

 

“It takes a long time to become young.”

 

~ Pablo Picasso ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in La Palma, the Canary Islands in November 1994.

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LITTLE BOX OF HAPPY

 

“O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend

the brightest heaven of invention.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a sculpture at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris taken in Paris in May 2012.

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LA FLAMME

 

“May I write words

more naked than flesh,

stronger than bone,

more resilient than sinew,

sensitive than nerve.”

 

~ Sappho ~

 

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

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PETITS POÈMES DU COEUR

 

“Birth is a mystery. Words are not enough.”

 

~ Marie O’Connor ~

 

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

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