dreamcanvas

 

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 France in June 2006.

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seeing is believing

 

“Perception is a clash of mind and eye,

the eye believing what it sees,

the mind seeing what it believes.”

 

~ Robert Breault ~

 

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i dream

 

“There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistence.”

 

~ Gertrude Stein ~

 

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full blood wolf moon

 

“For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow.

The very sun and moon seem taken from us.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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bainrow

 

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on,

   and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”

 

~William Shakespeare ~

 

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a matter of attraction

 

“A living speck – the merest dab of life – capable of pleasure and pain,

     is far more interesting to me than all the immensities of mere matter.”

 

~ Jean Henri Fabre ~

 

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child

 

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think…”

 

~ Margaret Mead ~

 

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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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the key of wonder

 

“The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly…

not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar.”

 

~ Henry Miller ~

 

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

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no finer magic

 

“Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard.”

 

~ Standing Bear ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Glauberg, Germany in July 1986.

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wormholes

 

“Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience

that primordial shamanism is based on

is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.”

 

~ Terence McKenna ~

 

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A CHILD’S MIND IS LIKE CLAY

 

“To learn to read is to light a fire.”

 

~ Victor Hugo ~

 

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BLUE SILENCE

 

“To me, words are primarily things to do with your mouth.”

 

~ Robert Wyatt ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the painting “Blue Pain” (2009) by M. Weller taken in May 2021.

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FLOWED AND FILLED

 

“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”

 

~ Robert Louis Stevenson ~

 

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INCENDIARY SPARKLE

 

“A star never lets anything dull its sparkle, not even darkness.”

 

~ Matshona Dhliwayo ~

 

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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 ~

 

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

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BAINROW

 

“We are such stuff As dreams are made on,

and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”

 

~William Shakespeare ~

 

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NO FINER MAGIC

 

“Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard.”

 

~ Standing Bear ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Glauberg, Germany in July 1986.

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THE LAND OF MAKE-BELIEVE

 

“After all, what could you expect from a pig but a grunt?”

 

~ Lucy Maud Montgomery ~

 

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A MATTER OF ATTRACTION

 

“A living speck—the merest dab of life—capable of pleasure and pain,

is far more interesting to me than all the immensities of mere matter.”

 

~ Jean Henri Fabre ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2020.

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