FOUR BEFORE TWELVE

 

“Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie

every environmental problem we face today.”

 

~ Jacques Yves Cousteau ~

 

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

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TICK…TICK…TICK

 

“Remember tonight… for it is the beginning of always.”

 

~ Dante Alighieri ~

 

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NO ROOM FOR RAINBOWS

 

“The color of truth is gray.”

 

~ Andre Gide ~

 

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THE CONCEPT OF GLASS

 

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”

 

~ Robertson Davies ~

 

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FRAME OF REFERENCE

 

“Time is a wave or a black hole could not bend it;

humanity rides the crest of an infinite number of waves

that are perceived as linear in their limited frame of reference.”

 

~ Ken Poirot ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the Jardin d’Agronomie Tropicale in the Bois de Vincennes in Paris in May 2013.

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DOORS

 

“Behind some doors lie our wildest dreams, behind others our worst

nightmares and behind them all always the energy and the adventure

that makes us whole. The challenge is in finding the balance and

the reward is a life enriched with the beauty

and the magic of the world around us…”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken with an analog Minolta camera in October 1992 on the island of Santorini. The door opened to a drop of a few hundred meters, straight down to the rocks and the sea below. Good that it was chained shut, but it was one door that I wouldn’t have been tempted to open anyway. The view was breathtaking enough.

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DESPITE IT ALL

 

“Every man dies. Not every man lives.”

 

~ William Wallace ~

 

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THE RED ROOM

 

“Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?”

 

~ Emile M. Cioran ~

 

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DAUGHTER OF THE MOON

 

“O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,

that monthly changes in her circled orb,

lest that thy love prove likewise variable.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2011.

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WHAT WAS IT THEN

 

“I cannot sing the old songs,

or dream those dreams again.”

 

~ Charlotte Alington Barnard ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2016.

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WHEN TIMES WERE TIMES

“Time is the longest distance between two places.”

~ Tennessee Williams ~

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BACKBONE BATTLEMENTS

 

“The blues ain’t nothing but a good man feelin’ bad.”

 

~ Leon Redbone ~

 

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

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THE PRICE PAID

 

“Every luxury must be paid for,

and everything is a luxury,

starting with being in this world.”

 

~ Cesare Pavese ~

 

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

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PUDDING

 

“It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.”

 

~ Aesop ~

 

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BALLS OFF BEARINGS

 

“The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen

as is the razor’s edge invisible.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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PASSION

 

“Those who live passionately teach us how to love.

Those who love passionately teach us how to live.”

 

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach ~

 

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

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CANDLE BURNING DOWN

 

“Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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MOON OVER ME

 

“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight,

and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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

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LA CHAMBRE ROUGE

 

“Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry,

Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!”  

 

~ Arthur Rimbaud ~

 

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

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THE SPIDER’S SHADOW

 

“Normal is an illusion.

What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.”

 

~ Charles Addams ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in August 2004.

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