waiting for the end

 

“Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.”

 

~ Maurice Chevalier ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2023.

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the dark attic of forgotten lives

 

“Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.”

 

~ James Joyce ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a cropped photo of a painting by Brigida Böttcher on a preserved section of the Berlin Wall taken in Berlin in January 2018.

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what tantalizing tapestry

 

“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware,

joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

 

~ Henry Miller ~

 

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

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blabberwockey

 

“It seems to fill my head with ideas –

only I don’t know exactly what they are.”

 

~ Lewis Carroll ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2020 of a chondrite meteorite that was found in Morocco in 2019.

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FADE

 

“Life has to be given a meaning

because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.”

 

~ Henry Miller ~

 

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

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WEATHERED

 

“Our lives are written in disappearing ink.”

 

~ Michelle Cliff ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in August 2017.

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TINY TINSEL STAR

 

“Popularity – a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.”

 

~ Victor Hugo ~

 

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

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BLABBERWOCKY

 

“It seems to fill my head with ideas –

only I don’t know exactly what they are.”

 

~ Lewis Carroll ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a chondrite meteorite found in Morocco in 2019 taken in February 2020.

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THE SILENCE OF THE STONES

 

“It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry,

whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.” 

 

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in April 2007.

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FADE

 

“Life has to be given a meaning

because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.”

 

~ Henry Miller ~

 

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

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WHAT TANTALIZING TAPESTRY

 

“The aim of life is to live,

and to live means to be aware,

joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

 

~ Henry Miller ~

 

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

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THE DARK ATTIC OF FORGOTTEN LIVES

 

“Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.”

 

~ James Joyce ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a crop of an original photo of art by Brigida Böttcher on a preserved section of the Berlin Wall taken in Berlin in January 2018.

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WEATHERED

 

“Our lives are written in disappearing ink.”

 

~ Michelle Cliff ~

 

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

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POÉSIE ÉCLAIRAGE

 

“Dans la clarté absolue,

comme dans la parfaite d’obscurité,

il n’y a ni laideur ni beauté.”

 

“In absolute clarity,

as in perfect darkness,

there is neither ugliness nor beauty.”

 

~ Danielle Tremblay ~

 

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

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