blind eye

 

 

“To fear death is to misunderstand life.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2019.

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music

 

“The only truth is music.”

 

~ Jack Kerouac ~

 

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the load

 

“I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.”

 

~ Phillips Brooks ~

 

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a personal observation

 

“Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.”

 

~ Khalil Gibran ~

 

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the long nightmare

 

“The sleep of reason produces monsters.”

 

~ Francisco de Goya ~

 

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terpsichore

 

“Terpsikhore summons me to sing.”

 

~ Corinna ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Crete in October 1992.

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time of in between

 

“the sweet small clumsy feet of april came

into the ragged meadow of my soul.”

 

~ e. e. cummings ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in April 2008.

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the doubt remains

 

“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”

 

~ Voltaire ~

 

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hoops

 

“There is a hidden power in details.”

 

~ Sabeesh Yemmay ~

 

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les pieds du pèlerin

 

“You never conquer a mountain.

You just stand on the top a few moments.

Then the wind blows your footprints away.”

 

~ Arlene Blum ~

 

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

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THE DECEMBER DREAM

 

“The world itself is but a series of footnotes

to a vast unfinished masterpiece.”

 

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

 

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YAWNS BACK AT ME IN YELLOW

 

“Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past,

I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast.”

 

~ Bob Dylan ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2011.

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CREAM

 

“I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Digital art created in March 2018.

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THE MOON STARES DOWN

 

“Before the winter fire,

I will still be dreaming,

I have no thought of time.”

 

~ Sandy Denny ~

 

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KARMA

 

“Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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TÊTE-À-TÊTES

 

“L’automne est le silence avant l’hiver.”

“Autumn is the hush before winter.”

 

~ French Proverb ~

 

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THE SUMMER THAT WASN’T

 

“It will not always be summer: build barns.”

 

~ Hesiod ~

 

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HAPPY

 

“What a wonderful life I’ve had!

   I only wish I’d realized it sooner.”

 

~ Colette ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in France in April 2017.

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JUNGLE

 

“Life is a zoo in a jungle.”

 

~ Peter De Vries ~

 

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ILLUSION

 

“…and romeo was left crooning to an empty balcony…”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken of a statue of Julia (Juliet) taken in Munich, Germany in June 2014.

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