sing me a soft song of my childhood

 

“Childhood is a short season.”

~ Helen Hayes ~

 

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vanishing footprints

 

“I dwell in a lonely house I know that vanished many a summer ago.”

 

~ Robert Frost ~

 

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what tantalizing tapestry

 

“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware,

joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

 

~ Henry Miller ~

 

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

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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 ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a recycled flower bed taken on the Canary Island of La Palma in May 1994.

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cobweb strange

 

“And alien tears will fill for him pity’s long broken urn,

for his mourners will be outcast men,

and outcasts always mourn.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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

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a few small drops of awareness

 

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”

 

~ John Keats ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a replica of Diplocynodon darwini, an extinct genus of alligatoroid that lived during the Paleocene to middle Miocene 49 million years ago in Europe. It looked very similar to the modern caiman. This particular type lived only in the Eocene epoch, in a swampy freshwater lake near Messel, Germany. Photo taken in May 2016. Replica from the author’s private collection.

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points of light

 

“I know there is infinity beyond ourselves.

I wonder if there is infinity within.”

 

~ Charles Lindbergh ~

 

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genése

 

“We become aware of the void as we fill it.”

 

~ Antonio Porchia ~

 

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sparkle

 

“For small creatures such as we,

the vastness is bearable only through love.”

 

~ Carl Sagan ~

 

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

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TALK TALK

 

“Many talk as easily as they breathe,

and with quite as little thought.”

 

~ James Lendall Basford ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art on a preserved section of the Berlin Wall taken in Berlin in January 2018.

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RIEN

 

“No one here gets out alive.”

 

~ Jim Morrison ~

 

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

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PLEIN LES YEUX

 

“Shut your eyes and see.”

 

~ James Joyce ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2017.

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STILLLEBEN

 

“…life, by definition, is never still.”

 

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

 

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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 ~

 

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NO DEPOSIT, NO RETURN

 

“Kisses honeyed by oblivion.”

 

~ George Eliot ~

 

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TIMELESS TOMES

 

“So many books, so little time.”

 

~ Frank Zappa ~

 

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ELECTRIC ECLECTIC

 

“Mysterious affair, electricity.”

 

~ Samuel Beckett ~

 

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CRINKLE CRANKLE

 

“Two roads diverged in a wood and I –

I took the one less traveled by,

and that has made all the difference.”

 

~ Robert Frost ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken of the ruins of the Celtic defensive wall on the Altkönig mountain in Germany in the summer of 1985.

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ALWAYS BAREFOOT IN THE BRAMBLES

 

“All memories fade away in the end. Then, only dreams are left.

And because they are all we have, we confide our life’s worries to them.”

 

~ Philippe Forest ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 1988.

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ECCENTRIC

 

“Before you can be eccentric, you must know where the circle is.”

 

~ Ellen Terry ~

 

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