a place i called home

 

“There are places we fear, places we dream,

places whose exiles we became

and never learned it until, sometimes, too late.”

 

~Thomas Pynchon ~

 

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

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gertrudian

 

“There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistence.”

 

~ Gertrude Stein ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the garden outside of Gertrude Stein’s apartment at 29 Rue de Fleurus taken in Paris in July 2013.

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THE SUMMER THAT WASN’T

 

“It will not always be summer: build barns.”

 

~ Hesiod ~

 

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

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FISH IN A TREE

 

“A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.”

 

~ Irina Dunn ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 2002.

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DO YOU READ

 

“nothing special about this easter,

bach weaving chorales with delicate fingers,

nimble notes bouncing off walls and windows,

resounding soundly through the floor…”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

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

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SAXOPHONES

 

“Sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen.”

 

~ Carl Sandburg ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2017.

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CARROTS AND CAKE

 

“Life, people learned, was not easy.

Life was not cake.

Life was not a carrot cake.”

 

~ Tao Lin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in March 2020.

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A PLACE OF MY OWN

 

“My crown is called content,

a crown that seldom kings enjoy.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in October 2017.

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EPITAPH

 

“Confusion will be my epitaph, 

As I crawl a cracked and broken path…”

 

~ King Crimson ~

(Lake, Giles, Fripp, Sinfield, Mcdonald)

 

 

Original photo taken in Fouras, France in June 1981.

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SWALLOWS ME AGAIN

 

“Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be,

a cake, which I have eaten and had too.”

 

~ Margaret Anderson ~

 

Self portrait taken on the Rue Jacob in Paris in. May 2017.

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CRÉPUSCULE

 

“Follow the river and you will find the sea.”

 

~ French Proverb ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken at Le Loiret à Olivet, France in January 2017.

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A PLACE OF HIS OWN

 

“Home is not a place, it is a feeling.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Fouras, France in June 2006.

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