Category: Photography
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21st Century TV Zeitgeist
21st Century TV Zeitgeist Light-emitting diode screens colorful images with sound that screamsor lulls the passionately roving thumb and remotethat quite blinds, hour upon wasted hour,or just footage of someone’s cat and its imaginary crown. Quickly, spit out this hopefully humorous vision of yourself, or our collective selves,before it becomes our only view –too late.…
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Shikanoko
Shikanoko the deer’s child, honed bylight and dark sorcerydeep in the dark wood love of the Autumn Princesshis undoing and long sorrowlady Hina’s love his salvation with five magical, imp sonstwo became his banewould have to deal with in time while his sixth human sonimp and Tengu trainedhis champion soon became and daughers? perhaps…the tale…
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Oleander Blooms
Oleander Blooms fringed green stems bowed downOleander blossoms painta snow-hued shadow a long line of antsblossom-petal porters beartheir white treasure home soon, white turns to brownonce heavy blossoms are gonefringed green stems stand proud –LE – 5/6/24
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Stream of Consciousness
Stream of Consciousness Here, there, everywhere, and nowhere – in my mind –and out, I’m thinking, dreaming, scheming – and learning to enrage everyone, perhaps even myself. I am not going to proceed with this because I’m not goingto deal in negatives – especially about myself.I leave that nitpicky shit to everyone else! I will…
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The Kent State Massacre – A Memoir Memory
4 Dead in Ohio – The Kent State Massacre The Ohio National Guard had killed four students at Kent State on May 4th ‘70. LC3 (the community college I was attending at the time) organized an assembly in the school’s outdoor mall area to discuss the event. I was on the stage as one of…
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Anniversary of the Kent State Massacre
Anniversary of the May 4, 1970 Kent State Massacre —Four Dead in Ohio— And they’re at it again, all over this country, governors, university admins, and cynical politicians are calling in police and national guards to arrest protestors and put down demonstrations, which are our civil rights, guaranteed by our constitution. There are laws currently…
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The Move to Tucson 2019 – Memoir Continued
The Move to Tucson 2019 After we got back to Ashland, we spent some time thinking about what a move would entail. Tina decided to sell her house to finance one in Tucson. We hadn’t looked at any while we were there, so we decided to rent for a few months or even a year…
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April’s Last Morning on the Loop Tucson
April’s Last Morning on the Loop Tucson horizon to horizon, a cerulean domenot a cloud in the skySol’s long, warm morning rayscast another perfect day a slight breeze bobs the heavyOleander blossoms up and downside to side on their long green stemsarching toward the ground all around Silverbell Lake is placid and stillfishermen snoozing in…
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No Do-overs
No Do-overs some old people complainabout where they endedin their journeys around Sol saying, if they had it to do overthey’d choose different directionsmake better decisions; but I beg to differ all things being equal (same conditions), everyone does the best they can, given their knowledge and circumstance-compulsions no matter their committed determinationtheir lives would…
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Vacation in Tucson – Memoir Continued
Vacation in Tucson AZ 2018 In early October, Tina and I took a trip to Tucson to visit her son, Scott. We hadn’t gone anywhere since our last trip to Savannah in 2015. We had just bought a new car (2018 Chevy Spark) in July and were pretty confident that it would make the 3-day…
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