hopes and dreams

 

“The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable.

The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed.”

 

~ Ajahn Sumedho ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the ruins of Battle Abbey, near Hastings, England taken in June 1982.

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IN ANNE’S GARDEN

“A light wife doth make a heavy husband.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of Anne Hathaway’s Cottage in Shottery, England taken in July 1975.

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BREAKZITT

 

“Brexit will make prices go up in Britain,

so it will cost them twice as much to not go to the dentist.”

 

~ Conan O’Brien ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in England in June 2007.

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THE LONGEST DAY

 

“A life without love is like a year without summer.”

 

~ Swedish Proverb ~

 

Original photo of Stonehenge taken in June 1980.

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MAGPIE

 

“One for sorrow, two for mirth,

three for a wedding, four for a birth,

five for silver, six for gold,

seven for a secret that’s never been told…”

 

~ Traditional English Rhyme ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Orléans, France in April 2017.

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RAMPARTS

 

“What is politics, after all,

but the compulsion to preside over property

and make other people’s decisions for them?”

 

~ Tom Robbins ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a crop of an original photo taken at the Bishop’s Palace in Wells, England in June 2007.

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LE TROUBADOUR

 

“Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.”

 

~ Robert Fripp ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Bristol, England in 1980.

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THE CORRIDOR

 

“The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.”

 

~ Benjamin Franklin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken at Winchester Cathedral, England in June 2007.

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NIGHT SLIPS IN

 

“Darkness will always be…its own master…”

 

~C.K. Mullinax ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Old Sarum, England in July 1982.

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A CONSPIRACY OF RAVENS

 

“Autumn binds poetry in its own withered leaves.”

 

~ Terri Guillemets ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken near Stonehenge in England in June 2007.

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PASS IT ON

 

“No legacy is so rich as honesty.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in the stone circle during the Albion People’s Naming Ceremony at the Stonehenge Free Festival, England on June 21st 1982.

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SLEEPING BEAUTY

 

“When I go out into the countryside and see

the sun and the green and everything flowering,

I say to myself “Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!”

 

~ Henri Rousseau ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken at the West Kennet Long Barrow in England in July 1983.

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ROADS

 

“You boys going to get somewhere, or just going?”

We didn’t understand his question,

and it was a damned good question.

~ Jack Kerouac ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Winchester, England in June 2007.

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A SIMPLE MAN

 

“The whole world’s living in a digital dream,
it’s not really there, it’s all on the screen,
makes me forget who I am, I’m an analog man…”

~ Joe Walsh ~

 
 

The simple man and a few friendly cows. Digitally enhanced photo taken at Glastonbury Tor, England in June 2007.

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HIBERNAL SOLSTICE

 

…a time when nightmares seem to last forever…

 

 

Photo of the solstice sun rising over Stonehenge taken in England in 1983.

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EUROPEAN GRAY

 

 

…the curse of winter, the cheerless, cloud-filled, unchanging leaden skies…

 

 

 

Photo taken in Glastonbury, England in 2007.

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HOPES AND DREAMS

 

“…and there will come a time when you can even take your clothes off when you dance…”

~ Frank Zappa ~

Photo of the ruins of Battle Abbey, near Hastings, England taken in June 1982.

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TOR

 

…eventually he too gazed upon medusa and turned to stone…

 

 

Photo taken in Cheddar, England in June 2007.

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WATERFALL

 

“She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.”

~ Virginia Woolf ~

 

Photo taken in Cheddar, England in 2007.

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RAVEN NIGHT

 

…by night all cats are gray…

 

 

Photo taken in Wells, England in June 2007.

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