shadow and light

 

“Wherever there is light, look for the shadow.

The shadow is me.”

 

~ Anaïs Nin ~

 

Photo taken in May 1994.

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dances i never danced

 

“Though now, of all that could have been, there is nothing.”

 

~ James Richardson ~

 

Photo taken in June 2012.

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printemps

 

“She turned to the sunlight and shook her yellow head,

and whispered to her neighbor: “Winter is dead.”

 

~ A.A. Milne ~

 

Photo taken in April 2016.

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woman

 

“You had the power all along my dear.”

 

~ Glinda the Good Witch (The Wizard of Oz ~ L. Frank Baum) ~

 

Photo of street art by Gregos taken in Paris in May 2017.

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hibernal solstice

 

“In the depths of winter, I finally learned that

   within me there lay an invincible summer.”

 

~ Albert Camus ~

 

Photo taken in Stonehenge in 1983.

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with such little feeling

 

“For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.

Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain

cannot reap joy and love.”

 

~ Pythagoras ~

 

Photo taken in the Frankfurt Zoo, Frankfurt am Main, Germany in April 1993.

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stardust

 

“I am one of billions.

I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form.

I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on

to be other things someday and I will be free.”

 

~ Laini Taylor ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from the photos of two small surface fragments from Mars (left) and the Moon (right), thrown into space by the impact of meteors, taken in October 2016.

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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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dances i never danced

 

“Though now, of all that could have been, there is nothing.”

 

~ James Richardson ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2012.

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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 ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a X-ray taken in February 2016.

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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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paradox three – excerpt

 

“Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones.”

 

~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Winter 1988.

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last summer’s leaves

 

“Wild is the music of autumnal winds amongst the faded woods.”

 

~ William Wordsworth ~

 

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

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a danger

 

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

 

~ Charles Baudelaire ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Le Dôme Café in Paris in May 2010.

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la muse

 

“Fool,” said my muse to me. “Look in thy heart and write.”

 

~ Philip Sidney ~

 

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

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shadow and light

 

“Wherever there is light, look for the shadow.

The shadow is me.”

 

~ Anaïs Nin ~

 

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

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woman

 

“You had the power all along my dear.”

 

~ Glinda the Good Witch (The Wizard of Oz ~ L. Frank Baum) ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art by Gregos taken in Paris in May 2017.

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the fragment of a tear

 

“Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates

the number of stupid individuals in circulation.”

 

~ Carlo M. Cipolla ~

 

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

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long hard cold dark lonely winter

 

“Blow, blow, thou Winter Wind,

Thou art not so unkind, as Man’s Ingratitude…”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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

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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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