Category: Journal
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The music of Church.
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument. — Rumi
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Storm warning.
My pictures are maps.You are the legend. I pulled over. It was early morning and I was driving back home. There was a short dirt road off to the right and I saw this gap in the clouds just beyond. The sunlight was a silver oxide shaft illuminating a group of swans. By the time…
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Have new eyes.
The real voyage of discovery consists not of seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. —MARCEL PROUST
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On average we’re doing fine.
I’ve arrived at Wallaga Lake. The van park I’m staying in is on a sort of isthmus. On one side is the lake, calm as liquid concrete. On the other, the wind is so choppy that even the seagulls are hunkered down behind the rocks. This is all I got today. I pulled out the…
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The Glassblower.
I took this photo of a glassblower at a market in The Rocks, Sydney. I tried to get a shot from the front but it just wasn’t working compositionally so I snuck around the back of his tent and wriggled my way through some flaps (security! security!) to get this angle. It’s another OK pic,…
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