even slower

 

“When we remember we are all mad,

the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”

 

~ Mark Twain ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in December 2018.

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golden fleece

 

“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”

 

~ Anne Sexton ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2012.

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light shines down

 

“When you possess light within, you see it externally.”

 

~ Anaïs Nin ~

 

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the nature of the beast within

 

“The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles.

Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.”

 

~ Carl Sagan ~

 

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

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soft serendipity

 

“Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle

and discovering a farmer’s daughter.”

 

~ Julius H. Comroe, Jr. ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2020.

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life’s blood

 

“…that poetic anarchy which has been the fundamental viewpoint

of creative people since the world began.”

 

~ Alison Prince ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2015.

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open book

 

“A breeze discovered my open book,

and began to flutter the leaves to look.”

 

~ Robert Frost ~

 

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

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summer solstice

 

“But thy eternal Summer shall not fade.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a cropped photo taken at Stonehenge in England as the sun rose over the Heel Stone on the morning of June 21st 1983.

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trees talk

 

“Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky,

We fell them down and turn them into paper,

That we may record our emptiness.”

 

~ Kahlil Gibran ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a dendrochronological sample of a tree felled in the year 30 AD, taken in March 2018.

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tomorrow never comes

 

“Learn from yesterday, live for today.”

 

~ Albert Einstein ~

 

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when the owls awaken

 

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”

 

~ Vincent van Gogh ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the Glauberg, Germany in August 1986.

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impressions

 

“Everything that we experience every day

leaves a long-lasting impression.”

 

~ Pharrell Williams ~

 

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

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moon over me

 

“There are nights when the wolves are silent

and only the moon howls.”

 

~ George Carlin ~

 

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

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this excrement unction

 

“So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”

 

~ T. S. Eliot ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 1992.

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the stolen years

 

“My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me.”

 

~ Christopher Paolini ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in December 2019.

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this too shall pass

 

“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”

 

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2014.

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promise

 

“The sweet converse of an innocent mind.”

 

~ John Keats ~

 

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

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l’extase de l’insomnie

 

“Sleeping is no mean art:

for its sake one must stay awake all day.”

 

~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~

 

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

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mosaic

 

“We are mosaics – pieces of light, love, history,

stars glued together with magic and music and words.”

 

~ Anita Krishan ~

 

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

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time

 

“He felt the rush of years, years wasted and years used wisely.

He felt time moving through him, as if it were a ghost,

a thing that can haunt a man’s days and nights.”

 

~ Cathie Pelletier ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2014.

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