ready to embrace it

 

“Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes,

and pompous in the grave.”

 

~ Thomas Browne ~

 

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IN THE KEY OF COME HITHER…

 

“Our work is not to become unique. We are unique.

Our work is to unleash our sense of adventure

and to allow the inner whisper that says

“come hither” to be reason enough to go.”

 

~ Vironika Tugaleva ~

 

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

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FLESH AND BONE

 

“We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth;

and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence.”

 

~ Virginia Woolf ~

 

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DESIRE

 

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”

 

~ Robert Frost ~

 

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THE SMOOTH BARED FLESH

 

“The moon, like a flower in heaven’s high bower,

with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.”

 

~ William Blake ~

 

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THE IDES

 

“A great civilization is not conquered from without

until it has destroyed itself from within.”

 

~ Ariel Durant ~

 

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SARAH

 

“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”

 

~ William James ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a painting, circa the mid 1940’s, by my Father’s Mother, taken in December 2019.

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MEDARD AT MIDNIGHT

 

“They’ve promised that dreams can come true –

but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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WITH PASSION AND PLEASURE

 

“New-born desires, after all,

have inexplicable charms,

and all the pleasure of love is in variety.”

 

~ Moliere ~

 

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AND THE DEAD LAUGH

 

“Life is for the living. Death is for the dead.

Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.”

 

~ Langston Hughes ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of the wall of the Cimetière du Père Lachaise that runs along the Rue du Repos taken in Paris in June 2019.

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IN THE KEY OF COME HITHER

 

“Come hither, come hither, come hither:

Here shall he see no enemy

but winter and rough weather.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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LE CAUCHEMAR

 

“They’ve promised that dreams can come true –

but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in September 2018.

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