fleeting heart

 

“What is life but fleeting moments of happiness

strung together on necklace of despair?”

 

~ Marian Keyes ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2019.

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childhood’s end

 

“Childhood is a promise that is never kept.”

 

~ Ken Hill ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Fouras, France in June 2006.

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gramophone

 

“As life runs on, the road grows strange

with faces new – and near the end 

the milestones into headstones change,

neath every one a friend.”

 

~ James Russell Lowell ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2022.

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tree of life

 

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky.

We fell them down and turn them into paper,

that we may record our emptiness.”

 

~ Khalil Gibran ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2020 of a Batik, made by a Finnish artist named Riita in 1980.

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JUST A FROWN

 

“O yellow eye, let me be sick with your heat,

let me be feverish and frowning.”

 

~ Anne Sexton ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 1976.

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CHILDHOOD’S END

 

“Childhood is a promise that is never kept.”

 

~ Ken Hill ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Fouras, France in June 2006.

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SOLSTICE STONES

 

“In the depths of winter, I finally learned

that within me there lay an invincible summer.”

 

~ Albert Camus ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken at Stonehenge in England in June 2007.

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FOURAS

 

“But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one.

Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.”

 

~ Bram Stoker ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Fouras, France in June 2006.

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A MONSTER UNDER THE BED

 

“A monster’s worst fear is of being found.”

 

~ Richelle E. Goodrich ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in August 2015.

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TREE OF LIFE

 

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky.

We fell them down and turn them into paper,

that we may record our emptiness.”

 

~ Khalil Gibran ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a Batik, made by a Finnish artist named Riita in 1980, taken in January 2020.

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FLEETING HEART…

 

“What is life but fleeting moments of happiness

strung together on necklace of despair?”

 

~ Marian Keyes ~

 

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

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THE BEAUTY OF BOOKS

 

“So many books, so little time.”

 

~ Frank Zappa ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a painting by Wickenhäuser taken in November 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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THE SHROUD

 

“A flower bloomed already wilting.

Beginning its life with an early ending.”

 

~ R.J. Gonzales ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken of the grave of Joanne Elisabeth Caroline Marie Rozy (October 11, 1887 – April 15, 1891) in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris in May 2018.

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