INTO THE SILENCE

 

“The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention.”

 

~ Mary Oliver ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2021.

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THIS ONE SIDE OF SLUMBER

 

“O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?”

 

~ Friedrich Schiller ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created in March 2021.

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FROM THE STARS STRUNG

 

“Age does not protect you from love.

But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”

 

~ Anaïs Nin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the summer of 1985.

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LORELEI’S GHOST

 

“Beneath me flows the Rhine,

and, like the stream of Time,

it flows amid the ruins of the Past.”

 

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the Rhine taken in February 2016.

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RUTHSONG

 

“i wrote this when i was twenty-one for a very talented

lovely lady cellist who graced my life briefly…”

 

~ erik geoffrey barth a.k.a. nightpoet ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a July 2020 scan of a card made 48 years ago by Ruth.

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SPANISH JUNE

 

“Cocaine’s for horses, not for men,

they tell me it’ll kill me but they don’t say when,

cocaine run all ’round my brain…”

 

~ Traditional ~

 

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

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RIVER

 

“Yes, the river knows…”

 

~ Jim Morrison ~

 

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

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A ROOM WITH A VIEW

 

“If country life be healthful to the body,

it is no less so to the mind.”

 

~ Giovanni Ruffini ~

 

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

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OOP BOOP A DOOP

 

“It’s all life is.

Just going ’round kissing people.”

 

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald ~

 

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

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TREE FEATHERED SLOPES

 

“Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets.

To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel.”

 

~ Aldo Leopold ~

 

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

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THE WILD RIDE

 

“Wild women don’t worry,

wild women don’t get the blues.”

 

~ Ida Cox ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.

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MOORING

 

“The pessimist complains about the wind;

the optimist expects it to change;

the realist adjusts the sails.”

 

~ William Arthur Ward ~

 

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

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HALF MOON HIDING

 

“Dream as if you’ll live forever.

Live as if you’ll die today.”

 

~ James Dean ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in March 2018.

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A WINDY DAY

 

“The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.“

 

~ Joan Didion ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken on the Rhine River in January 2018.

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WAKE

 

“You’ll take from life just the life you live…”

 

~ Henry Irla ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken on the Seine in Paris in May 2017.

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CRÉPUSCULE

 

“Follow the river and you will find the sea.”

 

~ French Proverb ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken at Le Loiret à Olivet, France in January 2017.

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