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Layers of Often, of Seldom, of Never
[Image: “127/365,” by Tom Wachtel. (Found on Flickr, used here under a Creative Commons license.) The caption provided by the photographer: “Yellow often shines in sparkling company. Red will almost...
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Even in the Heart of the Heart of Darkest Darkness
[Image: “Hide & Seek,” a photo by Marian Hilditch on Flickr. (Used here under a Creative Commons license.) The only information provided by the photographer: “I don’t know who those four looking...
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The Observer in the Observed
[Image: “Message From the Unseen World,” by Roger Marks; found on Flickr and used here under a Creative Commons license (thank you!). Click photo to enlarge. The photographer explains: “…this...
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Choosing the Self You Want to Know
[Image: “You Choose (autoretrato),” by Alberto Varela. (Found on Flickr; used here under a Creative Commons license — thank you!) The photographer says only that this self-portrait (Spanish: auto...
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Being Both Here and Beyond
[Image: ‘Circe,’ by user TheoJunior on Flickr; used here under a Creative Commons license (thank you!). About its subject, he caption supplied by the artist says only (and wryly), “Aeaean weaver,...
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Read the Hints, Come at Last
[Image: “Book Art,” by Blondinrikard Fröberg. Found on Flickr, naturally, and used here under a Creative Commons license (thank you!). The photo’s caption at Flickr says, only, “The window of the...
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Seeing the Opaque and Pronouncing It Transparent
[Image: “Autumn Reflections on Lake Taneycomo,” by Moose Winans. (Stumbled upon it on Flickr, and use it here under a Creative Commons license — thank you!) The photographer explains, sorta: “I was...
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The Inevitability of the Flow
[Image: “Echo Reservoir Panorama,” by John E. Simpson. At this point of our trip, in mid-July, we were headed east into Wyoming from Salt Lake City. Having been all through California and across...
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Life Should Be More Than the Body’s Weight
[Image: “Rushing (New Jersey, September 2022)” by John E. Simpson.] From whiskey river (part I): The Next TimeINobody sees it happening, but the architecture of our timeIs becoming the architecture of...
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The Writer Speaks to the Reader
[Image: excerpt from a letter my Dad sent home to his family in the early 1940s, from wherever he was doing his basic training. (His hair had always been wiry, and before his Army experience he’d let...
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