prophecy

 

“We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.”

 

~ Charles Lamb ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of fifty years of hair growth (from 1970 and 2020) taken in June 2020.

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trees talk

 

“Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky,

We fell them down and turn them into paper,

That we may record our emptiness.”

 

~ Kahlil Gibran ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a dendrochronological sample of a tree felled in the year 30 AD, taken in March 2018.

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cobweb strange

 

“And alien tears will fill for him pity’s long broken urn,

for his mourners will be outcast men,

and outcasts always mourn.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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

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insignificant

 

“Life is a great tapestry.

The individual is only an insignificant thread

in an immense and miraculous pattern.”

 

~ Albert Einstein ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Virginia Beach, Virginia in November 2004.

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the stolen years

 

“My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me.”

 

~ Christopher Paolini ~

 

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

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dreams fading

 

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For 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 a photo taken in September 2009.

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THE DECEMBER DREAM

 

“The world itself is but a series of footnotes

to a vast unfinished masterpiece.”

 

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

 

Digitally enhanced image cropped and created from a photo taken in October 2017, provided courtesy of Euterpe Enterprises. Used with permission.

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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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SOOTHE A SAVAGE BREAST

 

“Musick hath Charms to sooth a savage Breast,

To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak.”

 

~ William Congreve ~

 

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

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LAST LEAF

 

“No one but Night, with tears on her dark face,

watches beside me in this windy place.”

 

~ Edna St. Vincent Millay ~

 

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

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TÊTE-À-TÊTES

 

“L’automne est le silence avant l’hiver.”

“Autumn is the hush before winter.”

 

~ French Proverb ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2010.

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THE LAST LEAF

 

“Autumn is the hush before winter.”

 

~ French Proverb ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2010.

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WHEN THE SKIES WERE SUDDENLY SILENT

 

“Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.”

 

~ Robert Fripp ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an analog photo taken in August 1989.

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ONCE BROKEN

 

“In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.”

 

~ Madame de Stael ~

 

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

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THE NECTAR OF NATURE’S BEAUTIFUL BOUNTY

 

“Humanity is a cancer on the body of the world.”

 

~ Scott Westerfeld ~

 

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

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SANDS

 

“The sands of time are quicksands…

so much can sink into them without a trace.”

 

~ Margaret Atwood ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2008.

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SLEEPLESS NIGHTS BETWEEN

 

“Knowledge is a deadly friend if no one sets the rules…”

 

~ Peter Sinfield ~

 

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

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TONGUE OF THE NIGHT

 

“Caught between the tongue and the taste.”

 

~ Anne Carson ~

 

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

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WIND DIRECTION DETERMINED

 

“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die

life is a broken-winged bird, that cannot fly.”

 

~ Langston Hughes ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 2000.

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A SPYDER IN THE NIGHT

“Normal is an illusion.

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

~ Charles Addams ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in August 1983.

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