the burden

 

“The burden is light on the shoulder of another.”

 

~ Russian Proverb ~

 

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incandescence

 

“She took to his tinder with all the passion

of an unrepentant arsonist…”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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a simple truth

 

“Concerning matter, we have been all wrong.

What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration

has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses.

There is no matter.”

 

~ Albert Einstein ~

 

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the event horizon

 

“The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.”

 

~ Charles Bukowski ~

 

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shadow and light

 

“Wherever there is light, look for the shadow.

The shadow is me.”

 

~ Anaïs Nin ~

 

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WEE

 

“It takes a long time to become young.”

 

~ Pablo Picasso ~

 

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SWANSONG

 

“Far away in the west the sun was setting and the last glow

of all too fleeting day lingered lovingly on sea and strand…”

 

~ James Joyce ~

 

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WEE

 

“It takes a long time to become young.”

 

~ Pablo Picasso ~

 

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THE PATH FROM THERE TO HERE

 

“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous,

leading to the most amazing view.

May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.”

 

~ Edward Abbey ~

 

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MIGHT HAVE MADE A DIFFERENCE

 

“When the last tree is cut,

the last fish is caught,

and the last river is polluted;

when to breathe the air is sickening,

you will realize, too late,

that wealth is not in bank accounts

and that you can’t eat money.”

 

~ Alanis Obomsawin ~

1972

 

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KITTEN

 

“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”

 

~ Albert Schweitzer ~

 

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COLOURFUL CLARITY AND CONFUSION

 

“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”

 

 

~ Jean De La Fontaine ~

 

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A SIMPLE TRUTH

 

“Concerning matter, we have been all wrong.

What we have called matter is energy,

whose vibration has been so lowered

as to be perceptible to the senses.

There is no matter.”

 

~ Albert Einstein ~

 

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THE EVENT HORIZON

 

“The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.”

 

~ Charles Bukowski ~

 

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THE CANVAS

 

“To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old,

that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old,

that is perhaps something.”

 

~ Samuel Beckett ~

 

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THE BURDEN

 

“The burden is light on the shoulder of another.”

 

~ Russian Proverb ~

 

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THE MAGIC OF SHADOW AND LIGHT

 

Today is World Photo Day.

 

 

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SHADOW AND LIGHT

 

“There is strong shadow where there is much light.”

 

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~

 

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LITTLE LION

 

“If only cats grew into kittens.”

 

~ Robert A.M. Stern ~

 

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NEON NIGHTBIRD

 

“A photographer is like a cod,

which produces a million eggs

in order that one may reach maturity.”

 

~ George Bernard Shaw ~

 

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