TOWARDS THE LIGHT

 

“For the unlearned, old age is winter;

for the learned, it is the season of the harvest.”

 

~ Hasidic Proverb ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in March 2020.

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DEATH AND PASSION

 

“Death is inevitable, passion is eternal.”

 

~ Allison van Diepen ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo (detail) of the sculpture “Les Nubiens” by Ernest Barrias (1894) taken in Paris in June 2019.

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SO MUCH OLDER THEN

 

“All diseases run into one, old age.”

 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

 

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

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SUMMERTYME TRYST

 

“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon;

to me those have always been

the two most beautiful words

in the English language.”

 

~ Henry James ~

 

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

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PROMISE

 

“The sweet converse of an innocent mind.”

 

~ John Keats ~

 

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

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JEUNESSE

 

“Stolen waters are sweet,

and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”

 

~ Proverbs 9:17 ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of Aristide Maillol’s sculpture Jeunesse  in the Musée d’Orsay taken in Paris in June 2019.

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CHEAPER DEN BY DA DOZEN

 

“Cocaine’s for horses, not for men,

they tell me it’ll kill me but they don’t say when,

Cocaine run all ’round my brain…”

 

~ Dave Van Ronk ~

 

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

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LE CADEAU

 

“We are always the same age inside.”

 

~ Gertrude Stein ~

 

Digitally enhanced image cropped and created from an original photo taken in September 2016.

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BISOUS

 

“Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.”

 

~  Percy Bysshe Shelley ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of lipstick kisses left on Oscar Wilde’s grave in Paris in August 2015.

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WILDER FEGER TAKE TWO

 

“Wild women don’t get the blues.”

 

~ Ida Cox ~

 

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

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