holey heavens

 

“Behind every cloud is another cloud.”

 

~ Judy Garland ~

 

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

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dark nuances dance

 

“It is always a poet’s winter.”

 

~ Kate Braverman ~

 

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libére ton esprit

 

“There is nothing more powerful and nothing more

dangerously beautiful than a free mind.”

 

~ Bryant McGill ~

 

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

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mare nostrum

 

Δέδυκε μὲν ἀ σελάννα

καὶ Πληΐαδες, μέσαι δέ

νύκτες, πάρα δ’ ἔρχετ’ ὤρα,

ἔγω δὲ μόνα κατεύδω.

 

“The moon and the Pleiades have set,

it is midnight,

time is passing,

but I sleep alone.”

 

~ Sappho ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken near the island of Thera (Santorini) in 1992.

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canvas

 

“How sweet to be a Cloud. Floating in the Blue!”

 

~ A. A. Milne ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 2011.

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diving for pearls

 

“The drowning man is not troubled by the rain.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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darkness

 

“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence,

and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.”

 

~ Helen Keller ~

 

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rainbows

 

“Friendship is like a rainbow between two hearts.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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

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la mort est pour toujours

 

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow.

Learn as if you were to live forever.”

 

~ Mahatma Gandhi ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2020.

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same ol’ moon

 

“Lend me thy pen to write a word in the moonlight…”

 

~ from a French folk song ~

 

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only ever now

 

“Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now.”

 

~ James Clavell ~

 

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

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étreinte de l’ange

 

“Is it possible that existence is our exile

and nothingness our home?”

 

~ Emile M. Cioran ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris in May 2018.

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light shines down

 

“When you possess light within, you see it externally.”

 

~ Anaïs Nin ~

 

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the demons are delighted

 

“He who is neither human nor demon

is not the dawn nor the dusk.”

 

~ Kohta Hirano ~

 

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grow wings

 

“Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?”

 

~ Frida Kahlo ~

 

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dans un brouillard

 

“Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.”

 

~ Charles Bukowski ~

 

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

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a drowning man

 

“The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.”

 

~ Franz Kafka ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2022.

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give and take

 

“One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.”

 

~ George Eliot ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art in Paris taken in August 2015.

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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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rainbows raining down

 

“Poetry is a phantom script telling how

rainbows are made and why they go away.”

 

~ Carl Sandburg ~

 

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

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