SARAH

 

“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”

 

~ William James ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a painting, circa the mid 1940’s, by my Father’s Mother, taken in December 2019.

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ANCIENT SKINS

 

“If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.”

 

~ Tom Petty ~

 

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

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ΣΊΒΥΛΛΑ

 

“The Sibyl with raving mouth,

uttering things mirthless, unadorned and unperformed,

reaches over a thousand years

with her voice through the god.”

 

~ Heraclitus ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of the painting Ramsès dans son harem (detail) by Jean Lacomte du Noüy taken in Paris in June 2019.

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‘TWAS A TIME

 

“That is what you are. That’s what you all are…

All of you young people who served in the war.

You are a lost generation.”

 

~ Gertrude Stein ~

 

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

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JAVA DREAMS

 

“Black as the devil, hot as hell,

pure as an angel, sweet as love.”

 

~ Charles Maurice de Talleyrand ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in March 2015.

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BLIND EYE

 

“To fear death is to misunderstand life.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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

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SANDS OF TIME

 

“The sands of time are quicksands…

so much can sink into them without a trace.”

 

~ Margaret Atwood ~

 

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

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NOT ENOUGH TIME

 

“There is not enough time

to do all the nothing we want to do.”

 

~ Bill Watterson ~

 

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

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PÉPIER

 

“God loved the birds and invented trees.

Man loved the birds and invented cages.”

 

~ Jacques Deval ~

 

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

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RAINBOWS RAINING DOWN

 

“Poetry is a phantom script

telling how rainbows are made

and why they go away.”

 

~ Carl Sandburg ~

 

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

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