on the cusp

 

“I am on the cusp of change and the curve is shifting fast.”

 

~ Audre Lorde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2023.

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soothe a savage breast

 

“Musick hath Charms to sooth a savage Breast,

To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak.”

 

~ William Congreve ~

 

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legacy

 

“The true meaning of life is to plant trees,

under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”

 

~ Nelson Henderson ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2016.

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in those moments

 

“It’s one thing to fall in love.

It’s another to feel someone else fall in love with you,

and to feel a responsibility toward that love.”

 

~ David Levithan ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a painting by C.H. taken in April 2023.

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the distance of myth

 

“For time is the longest distance between two places.”

 

~ Tennessee Williams ~

 

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lessons in the half light

 

“We came whirling out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust…”

 

~ Rumi ~

 

 

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the tenebrosity of dream

 

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

 

~ Edgar Allen Poe ~

 

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

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dreamcanvas

 

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die,

life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”

 

~ Langston Hughes ~

 

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

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red

 

“Yet would we die as some have done,

beating a way for the rising sun.”

 

~ Arna Bontemps ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in December 2003.

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a smile

 

“Look back, and smile on perils past.”

 

~ Walter Scott ~

 

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

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shine a light

 

“You can’t have a light without a dark to stick it in.”

 

~ Arlo Guthrie ~

 

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thin around cause

 

“We postulate that time is thin around the cause

and dense around the effect.”

 

~ Nikolai Kozyrev ~

 

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

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the performance

 

“Just know your lines and don’t bump into the furniture.”

 

~ Noel Coward ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2021.

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unreality

 

“I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing

     is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.”

 

~ Virginia Woolf ~

 

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

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draws the bow

 

“After silence, that which comes nearest

     to expressing the inexpressible is music.”

 

~ Aldous Huxley ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in October 2018.

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dark nuances dance

 

“It is always a poet’s winter.”

 

~ Kate Braverman ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in December 2010.

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she would dream again

 

“A medium suitable for me does not exist yet, unless I invent it.”

 

~ William S. Burroughs ~

 

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

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mare nostrum

 

Δέδυκε μὲν ἀ σελάννα

καὶ Πληΐαδες, μέσαι δέ

νύκτες, πάρα δ’ ἔρχετ’ ὤρα,

ἔγω δὲ μόνα κατεύδω.

 

“The moon and the Pleiades have set,

it is midnight,

time is passing,

but I sleep alone.”

 

~ Sappho ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken near the island of Thera (Santorini) in 1992.

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aftertaste

 

“A sprinkle of last-minute despair gives

   a soul an agreeably earthy aftertaste.”

 

~ David Mitchell ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2010.

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pourboire

 

“Take time out for yourself and love the person in the mirror.”

 

~ Dee Waldeck ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 1982.

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