distance

 

“Time is the longest distance between two places.”

 

~ Tennessee Williams ~

 

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

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silent movies

 

“The world is pressed against your fingers,

and you’re still looking for something to hold.”

 

~ Nitya Prakash ~

 

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

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les pieds du pèlerin

 

“You never conquer a mountain.

You just stand on the top a few moments.

Then the wind blows your footprints away.”

 

~ Arlene Blum ~

 

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STARING AT EMPTY PAGES

 

This was in September 1970…

and then, just six short years later, I was already

thinking back to those more innocent times…

and now today it is all so much more distant,

so very far away and yet still so very near…

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on Rivermont Avenue, Lynchburg, Virginia in September 2008.

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SILENT MOVIES

 

“When you see a silent movie, you understand everything that’s going on

from the images because the images are so strong.”

 

~ Monica Bellucci ~

 

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BLACK BILE

 

“The taste of your life depends on the spices you used to brew it.”

 

~ Israelmore Ayivor ~

 

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LES PIEDS DU PÈLERIN

 

“You never conquer a mountain.

You just stand on the top a few moments.

Then the wind blows your footprints away.”

 

~ Arlene Blum ~

 

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

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LUMINÈRE DE RUE

 

“You can’t have a light without a dark to stick it in.“

 

~ Arlo Guthrie ~

 

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

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PARIS: PLEASURES, PASSIONS AND PERAMBULATIONS – EIGHT

 

“Walking is also an ambulation of mind.”

 

~ Gretel Ehrlich ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of my time-worn sandals taken in Paris in May 2018.

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CAGED

 

“The eyes of others our prisons;

their thoughts our cages.”

 

~ Virginia Woolf ~

 

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

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