Tag: Photography
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Jailbird Caper
Jailbird Caper Riding down the road one fine summer morning in my ’65 GTO convertible (black on red and a little 389 with a quad), my brother riding shotgun; we were about to turn onto the freeway entrance ramp when the air was split by the local donut-boy’s siren. I immediately pulled off and waited…
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A Noontide Lyric
A Noontide Lyricby Oliver Wendel Holmes, Sr. (August 29 1809 – October 7 1894) THE dinner-bell, the dinner-bellIs ringing loud and clear;Through hill and plain, through street and lane,It echoes far and near;From curtained hall and whitewashed stall,Wherever men can hide,Like bursting waves from ocean caves,They float upon the tide. I smell the smell of…
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Bliss
Bliss Bliss, a mental, psychological state based onignorant hubris (as all hubris is ignorant).More simply, ignorance is bliss — so they say. If so, then what of intentional ignorance?Again, a symptom of hubris, known as denial.More simply, denial is ignorant and intentional. So, what then is hubris, denial, intentional ignorance,the willingness to abdicate one’s responsibilityto…
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Business as Usual
Business as Usualby the Eagles Look at the weather, look at the newsLook at all the people in denialWe’re running time, leaving graceStill we worship at the marketplaceWhile common sense is going out of styleI thought that I would be above it all by nowIn some country garden in the shade But it’s business as…
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Always Preposterous 2/2
Always Preposterous 2/2 What powers it all? Our basic beliefs, conditioned into us from cradle to grave, propaganda and indoctrination from our social gatekeepers, our institutions and their leaders, secular and religious. And regardless of their denials, both are political in the extreme. The whole purpose is to keep the ruling class, the rich and…
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Always Preposterous 1/2
Always Preposterous 1/2 National and international news is often quite revealing in what it neglects. Just look at what is going on around us right now. From destroying our water resources and pumping so much garbage into our air that our climate is already changing (undoubtedly past the critical tipping point), ruining two of the…
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Castle by Halsey
Castle by Halsey Sick of all these people talking, sick of all this noiseTired of all these cameras flashing, sick of being poisedNow my neck is open wide, begging for a fist around itAlready choking on my pride, so there’s no use crying about it(Agnus Dei, Agnus Dei, Agnus Dei, Agnus Dei) I’m headed straight…
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Early Youth a Memory
This abstract is based on the watercolor below. They were done about a day apart. That’s just how my mind works… take something fairly ordinary and deconstruct it, make something ‘different’ out of it… Youth – A Distant Memory When very youngGot lost and coldSpanked for runningOut in the roadEscaped fromRope-tied pantsBy taking them off…
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Late Seasons Haiku and Celebration Painting
Late Seasons Haiku windswept blades of grass,velcro for decaying leaves —crows hunt for treasure a crow is calling,thrice, rest, thrice, rest, again thrice —rose-glass filtered sun wet snow all around,parking lot puddles soak shoes —tracking salt inside –LE
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Return of the Snow
Return of the Snow snow is comingin flurries and squallsin storms and gently fallingclouds of snow-dust swirls, where each flake, an ice crystal,glimmers in moonshine,and under street lights,headlights, and lighted windows, casting long shadows,creates snowscapes — alien,breathtaking, mysteriouslystark, yet somehow warm, a home gently shroudedin glistening shades ofwhite, blue, black, and gray,while honeyed shades drip…
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