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Photos and comments posted daily from 2017 to 2020.

  • Mississippi River

    Mississippi River | West of New Orleans, LA | 2018 Sometimes we make progress by going sideways. We divert from the headlong rush to reach a goal and instead loop yonder to gather knowledge, build energy, or simply take a break. The river, powerful and unstoppable, follows the

  • Chair in Snow

    Chair in Snow | East Wenatchee, WA | 2018 The world is full of static. Clarity suffers amid vice and distraction — too much ego, coffee, traffic, phone use, Trump news, ad blitzes. Me, you reaching for attainment, gratification, satisfaction. Earlier this month I watched snow fall on a

  • Finish

    Finish | Hot Springs, AR | 2017 My dear mother died two weeks ago at age 87. Some would say she’d reached the Finish Line, but that would imply a certain amount of striving and competition. For most of her life, she was the opposite of that. She nurtured, embraced, accepted, and loved almost

  • Gas Pump

    Gas Pump | Calico Rock, AR | 2017 Southerners know that you clip and snip immediately or kudzu will take over your yard and life. Same with English ivy. Or weeds from the vacant lot next door. “Do the difficult things while they are

  • At Window

    At Window | East Wenatchee, WA | 2017 Mediocre tacos on a plastic tray atop a scratched Formica tabletop in a past-its-prime Mexican restaurant. Yeesh. But I hardly had time to pity myself because the swish of sunlit grasses in the window lightened my mood. A west wind twirled the stalks — like golden flames…

  • Rider

    Rider | Calico Rock, AR | 2017 “I’m looking for the unexpected. I’m looking for things I’ve

  • Flight: LAX Stairway

    Flight: LAX Stairway | Los Angeles, CA | 2018 “Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking

  • Flight: Shadow on Forest

    Flight: Shadow on Forest | Houston, TX | 2017 “We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is

  • Flight: Engine

    Flight: Engine | Over Colorado | 2017 Some people simply love the roar of jet engines and excitement of flying. “The very danger in the situation is inseparable from the exhilaration it yields. You are strapped into your seat, there is

  • Flight: At 30,000 Feet

    Flight: At 30,000 Feet | Over Utah | 2017 “We’ll pay extra for a hotel room with a view of the sea, or book in advance for a restaurant table with the best vista. But instead of marvelling at the kind of views once reserved only for birds, most of us