golden fleece

 

“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”

 

~ Anne Sexton ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2012.

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impressions

 

“Everything that we experience every day

leaves a long-lasting impression.”

 

~ Pharrell Williams ~

 

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

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remembrance

 

“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”

 

~ Antonio Porchia ~

 

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

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LA NUIT NOIRE

 

“Tomorrow night is nothing

but one long sleepless wrestle

with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.”

 

~ William Faulkner ~

 

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

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SCREAM

 

“The sleep of reason produces monsters.”

 

~ Francisco Goya ~

 

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

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NO DEPOSIT, NO RETURN

 

“Kisses honeyed by oblivion.”

 

~ George Eliot ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2014.

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JUPITER

 

“…within the clouds appear numerous illusions,

a woman’s face with flowing hair and a windblown robe,

a bird’s head, fantastic creatures and so much mystery…”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

This photo of clouds within a mysterious jet stream region on Jupiter was taken in February 2019 by NASA’s Juno Space Probe. Photo courtesy and © of NASA, JPL-Caltech, SwRI, MSSS and Kevin M. Gill. (I seldom use other people’s photos, but I couldn’t resist ‘borrowing’ this one.)

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GOLDEN FLEECE

“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”

~ Anne Sexton ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2012.

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ONE TWEET AT A TIME

 

“Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities,

are incapable of self-government.”

 

~ Thomas Jefferson ~

 

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

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INCURABLE DISEASE

 

“Now, I ain’t afraid of dyin’,

but there’s one thing I can’t forget,

no one who’s gone over there’s

come back to talk about it yet…”

 

~ Memphis Slim ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in on the island of Ischia, Italy in June 1996.

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SILENT NIGHT

 

“Night, when words fade and things come alive.”

 

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

 

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

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BLACK CLOUDS DANCING

 

“We don’t see things as they are, 

we see them as we are.”

 

~ Anaïs Nin ~

 

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

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WHEN I STILL HAD TIME TO DREAM

 

“Lost time is never found again.”

 

~ Benjamin Franklin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken on the mountain Donnersberg in August 1982.

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MOON OMENS

 

“The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads

like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures.”

 

~ Garth Nix ~

 

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

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NETHER REGIONS

 

“She is nether fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.”

 

~ John Heywood ~

 

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

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REFLECTIONS BLENDING

 

“All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.”

 

~ Elias Canetti ~

 

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

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REMEMBRANCE

 

“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”

 

~ Antonio Porchia ~

 

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

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PAGES STAINED

 

“…the only thing actually promised

in this life is uncertainty.”

 

~ Alicia Cook ~

 

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

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IMPRESSIONS

 

“Everything that we experience every day

leaves a long-lasting impression.”

 

~ Pharrell Williams ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a painting by an unknown artist taken in Paris in May 2018.

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PARIS: PLEASURES, PASSIONS AND PERAMBULATIONS – SIX

 

“House, n. A hollow edifice erected

for the habitation of man, rat,

mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly,

mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe.”

 

~ Ambrose Bierce ~

 

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

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