Tag: Photography
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Success – Memoir Addendum
Success I studied classical violin when I was a child. My teachers, over the years, informed my parents that I was no prodigy and would probably never be good enough to be a ‘professional’ musician. This colored my view of myself and my abilities. It took many years for me to come to Nietzsche’s realization…
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A Perfect Trio
A Perfect Trio tabbouli and rippled potato chipswashed down with adouble espresso a perfect trio atasty lightevening meal –LE – 12/22/24 PS: My Tabouli is made with bulgur, tomatoes, cucumbers, parsley, mint, green onions, fresh squeezed lemon juice, and a little olive oil. The espresso in the picture is roughly three shots. The ridgecut chips…
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Some Public Art In The South End Of Tucson
Public Art on the Tucson Loop close to the Julian Wash Archeological Park
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Last Ride Of 2024
Last Ride Of 2024 marbled blue skymisty mountains silhouettedin the southern morning haze mountains to the north and westspotlit by the morning sunevery feature crystal cleartheir ramparts near many of the tree limbs are barewith grasses and shrubs turnedbrown or dark green-gray no animals crossed our path todayexcept a single bird of preycircling lazily over…
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On The Second Day Of Christmas
Silverbell Lake Ride On The Second Day Of Christmas puffy whip cream cloudson a bright blue skynot much sunto dazzle the eye contrail-etched crescentsand question marks inscattered patches of blueprovoke questions of intent statuesque roadrunnerpoised in the shoulder brushdarts to the right aswe roll by trash in the pathunder the Grant Rd. bridgemakes the descentand…
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Who Knows? – v2
Original is from the late ’90s; just revised to make current… Who Knows? – v2 Who knows the whys of wherefores gone awry?Who sees through the skin of the curved blue sky,Or plumbs the depths of chaos and causation, Seeking a genuine realization, orPerhaps just a wisdom pearl and dissolutionBack to an essence universal? –LE…
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We’re Only Human, Right?
Only Human vaunted humansmerely a strain of primateswith opposable thumbsand the ability to thinkabout the future, andthinking thinking about thinkingover-thinking? thinking based on perceptionsas is all thinking, butnone possible without sensesand perceptions of pastevents and future expectationsbased on them but all perceptions capable oferror and missing the realityor ‘truth’ of any and allexperiences … the…
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Alibis Abound…
Alibis Lives full of alibisDeny responsibilityCulpabilityPoint the fingerSomeoneAnyone elseThe blameWe have ourAlibis Our socialCognitiveDissonanceIntellectual dis-HonestyPuts the lieTo progressiveAnd conservativeClaims ofHumanity –LE 12/31/23
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Natural
Natural If we are part of nature… and there’s no real reason to think otherwise,then, what is ‘natural’ and what is not? Isn’t the whole universe ‘natural’,evolved through the ‘laws’ of its existential nature? Then, intelligence and ‘artifice’ in all their formsare also part of nature, and natural. So, what is ‘natural’ and what is…
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Pivotal Judo Match – A Memoir Memory
Judo Match When I was preparing for my Sandan test,had to compete in a rank tournament togain more points for my advancement. This was my first match, and I needed to win.My opponent was my rank, but younger,fast and agile; he mounted the tatami with confidence We took our starting marks and bowed.The ref said…
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