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Happy Birthday, USA. It’s Time to Shine!
“Fireworks had for her a direct and magical appeal. Their attraction was more complex than that of any other form of art. They had pattern and sequence, colour and sound, brilliance and mobility; they...
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Summer Love Summer
Summer: Welcome Is Still the Word “Then followed that beautiful season …. Summer … Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape lay as if new, created in all the freshness of...
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2014: So, What’s New?
“It’s time to rise and shine. Wake up and make the day mine. In this brand new world. I’m at the starting line.” ~ Unknown In these United States the main form of modern communication is now text or...
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ShadowLands
Moon Shadows “Shadow is the obstruction of light. Shadows appear to me to be of supreme importance Sun Shadows in perspective, because, without them opaque and solid bodies will be ill-defined;...
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Locomotion| Weekly Photo Challenge: Motion
Motion Commotion Locomotion “There is nothing more beautiful than seeing a person being themselves. Imagine going through your day being unapologetically you.” ~ Steve Maraboli This is my contribution...
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Weekly Photo Challenge | Silhouette
The Weekly Photo Challenge theme this week is “Silhouette”. Some of you have seen this already. Forgive me for reposting as I now realize WordPress wants a current post rather than a revision of a...
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The Beauty of a True Friend | Weekly Photo Challenge: Love
“You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what’s a life, anyway? We’re born, we live a little while, we die. A spider’s life...
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Love = Infinity + Beyond…| Weekly Photo Challenge: Geometry
“Love does not consist in gazing at each other but at looking together in the same direction.” ~ Unknown This is my second interpretation for the Weekly Photo Challenge: Geometry theme. Can love be...
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2013 | Resolved to Illuminate Beyond
The creature transfixed me; I stood captivated, mesmerized. It rendered me still—a rarity in my world. Its movement was beautiful to behold. Tendrils of tentacles, suspended in lovely designs, moved...
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Change—Certain as the Seasons
Fall Dozes … The changing of the seasons mirror the rhythm of a soul. There are times of exuberance (summer) and times of reflection (winter). Fall and winter provide reflection and rest needed for the...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Forward
“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” ~ Ralph Waldo...
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Nature’s Usual Pose | Weekly Photo Challenge: Up
“Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.” ~ Henry Van Dyke “It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at...
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Rise Above | Weekly Photo Challenge: From Above
“Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility—for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.” ~ Thomas a...
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Friendship Formulae |Weekly Photo Challenge: Companionable II
“To get the full value of joy you must find someone to divide it with.” ~ Mark Twain “Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common...
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O, How The Years Go By | WPC: Nostalgia
“Nostalgia”. The word is a Greek compound, consisting of “nóstos”—meaning “homecoming” and “álgos”—meaning “pain and ache”. Wow. That’s exactly what nostalgia is to me. It’s that deep pain inside that...
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Beyond the Imagined | Horizon
“Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step. Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.” ~ Dag Hammarskjold “Water has an endless horizon; there...
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Fleeting Objects of Affection
Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting. ~ Unknown If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. ~Tom...
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Me, My Selfie, and Someone Else
When I first heard “selfie” was the Oxford Dictionary’s “Word of the Year” for 2013, it struck me as odd. I remember first hearing the word from my tween grand-niece. I grinned and shook my head....
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Love, With a Twist
When you look at me What do you see? Branches random, Unchosen tandem? Nothing clever. Space distress Of leaves and mess? Unlike attraction, More like distraction! Whatever! Why on earth, of all the...
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Wild, Reckless Reclamation
“This world is but a canvas to our imagination.” ~ Henry David Thoreau Doesn’t it seem children have an insatiable desire to create? And don’t they provide continual delight with constant surprises of...
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