the drowning man

 

“Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.”

 

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2015.

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baptize your brushes

 

“There is peace even in the storm.”

 

~ Vincent Van Gogh ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2021 of a shipwreck painted in the mid 1940’s by my grandmother Sarah.

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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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reboot required

 

“The two most common elements in the universe

are hydrogen and stupidity.”

 

~ Harlan Ellison ~

 

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

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tiptoe away

 

“Like those crabs which dress themselves with seaweed,

we wear belief and custom.”

 

~ Cyril Connolly ~

 

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

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life’s blood

 

“…that poetic anarchy which has been the fundamental viewpoint

of creative people since the world began.”

 

~ Alison Prince ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2015.

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page three

 

“Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.”

 

~ James Thurber ~

 

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

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the river flows

 

“Free fall flow, river flow, on and on it goes,

breathe under water till the end,

yes, the river knows…”

 

~ Robbie Krieger ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2022.

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taste alone

 

“I would rather die with the taste of you on my tongue

than live and never touch you again.”

 

~ Michelle Hodkin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an analog photo taken in May 1986.

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MOONCHILD

 

“She and the moon could always be found playing in the darkness.”

 

~ A.J. Lawless ~

 

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

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TETHYS

 

“Every human endeavor, however singular it seems,

involves the whole human race.”

 

~ Jean-Paul Sartre ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the Aegean Sea between Thera (Santorini) and Crete in October 1992.

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BOUILLON

 

“I live on good soup, not on fine words.”

 

~ Moliere ~

 

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

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PATIENTLY WAITING

 

“Patience is a virtue…and a curse…”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken with a 110 format Pentax SLR camera in Bristol, England in July 1980.

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BEWARE ULYSSES, BEWARE

 

“Is it the singer or the song…?”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the Mediterranean between Crete and Santorini in October 1992.

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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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ROSY CRUCIFIXIONS

 

“My life was one long rosy crucifixion.”

 

~ Henry Miller ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created in February 2002.

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TENDER TERPSICHORE

 

“Why was I the one who forgot what I thought I had known?

Tell me, and why am I the one who has seen Barcelona alone?”

 

~ Greg Copeland ~

 

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

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LYKE

 

“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.”

 

~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of ice crystals on a window taken in Winter 1984.

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BAPTIZE YOUR BRUSHES

 

“There is peace even in the storm.”

 

~ Vincent Van Gogh ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a shipwreck painted in the mid 1940’s by Sarah Klingenberg taken in February 2021.

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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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