Posts Tagged With: Magic

a gravity of language

 

“Words, too, have genuine substance –
mass and weight and specific gravity.”

 

~ Tim O’Brien ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2013.


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full blood wolf moon

 

“For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow.
The very sun and moon seem taken from us.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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


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childhood’s end

 

“Childhood is a promise that is never kept.”

 

~ Ken Hill ~

 

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


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no finer magic

 

“Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard.”

 

~ Standing Bear ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Glauberg, Germany in July 1986.


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summer solstice

 

“But thy eternal Summer shall not fade.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a cropped photo taken at Stonehenge in England as the sun rose over the Heel Stone on the morning of June 21st 1983.


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shroomagic

 

“…And you, whose pastime is to make midnight mushrooms…”

 

~ Prospero in Shakespeare’s The Tempest ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2004.


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tree of life

 

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky.
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
that we may record our emptiness.”

 

~ Khalil Gibran ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2020 of a Batik, made by a Finnish artist named Riita in 1980.


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A GRAVITY OF LANGUAGE

 

Words, too, have genuine substance –
mass and weight and specific gravity.”

 

~ Tim O’Brien ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2013.


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SING

 

“Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody,
it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.”

 

~ Janis Joplin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2014. Courtesy of DePiero and Associates.


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THE MOVEMENT OF AIR

 

“A painter paints pictures on canvas.
But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”

 

~ Leopold Stokowski ~

 

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


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BEDSIDE WIT

 

“I can resist anything except temptation.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2011.


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CHILDHOOD’S END

 

“Childhood is a promise that is never kept.”

 

~ Ken Hill ~

 

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


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THE FIRST ACT IN THE TRAGEDY OF TOUCH

 

“Touch has a memory.”

 

~ John Keats ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo (detail) of a restored Roman mosaic taken in June 2004.


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OUGHT TO BE

 

“Should; shouldn’t; ought; oughtn’t—the enemies of contentment.”

 

~ Frank Delaney ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 1982.


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ONE NIGHTMORE

 

“If songs were lines in a conversation,
the situation would be fine…”

 

~ Nick Drake ~

 

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


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NO FINER MAGIC

 

“Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard.”

 

~ Standing Bear ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Glauberg, Germany in July 1986.


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TREE OF LIFE

 

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky.
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
that we may record our emptiness.”

 

~ Khalil Gibran ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a Batik, made by a Finnish artist named Riita in 1980, taken in January 2020.


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MOONSTONE MAGIC

 

“The moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a lunar achondrite meteorite taken in Paris in May 2018.


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A GRAVITY OF LANGUAGE

 

“Words, too, have genuine substance –
mass and weight and specific gravity.”

 

~ Tim O’Brien ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2013.


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FULL BLOOD WOLF MOON

 

“For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow.
The very sun and moon seem taken from us.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken on January 21st 2019.


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