Category: Cityscape
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Children Dancing | Calgary, Alberta | 2015 “You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back — no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls or hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold — nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.”…
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Dark Buddha | Calgary, Alberta | 2015 “Holding onto anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of
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Shades | Phoenix, AZ | 2015 Ten years ago, a doctor in the UK came up with a fascinating theory: Sunglasses cause cancer. The physician proposed that sunglasses block ultraviolet light that triggers body defenses to increase the hormones that fight skin cancer. Medical studies have noted the rise in cancer rates
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Tufts | Wenatchee, WA | 2015 I never much enjoyed mowing grass, but my Dad insisted that it built character. He always said the chore demanded a certain discipline (every two weeks, or 10 days if rain caused a growth spurt), a knowledge of machines and skill in their use, and a sense of
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Chimney | Wenatchee, WA | 2015 A gray-haired senior citizen can use a smartphone to photograph almost anything — airports, refineries, military bases — and few people take notice. But put a real camera (DSLR) in that elder’s hands, and security is there
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Zen | Moses Lake, WA | 2015 The patterns of our lives are often hard to recognize. Repeated behaviors — habits good and bad — become fuzzy amid the bustle of daily activity. Too much food. Too much gossip. Too much smartphone. Too little exercise. We can go weeks before realizing
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Nap | Wenatchee, WA | 2015 He surrendered first to the library’s dimness. He then sank into the chair’s comfort, the room’s hush, and in seconds had made the leap to elsewhere. I witnessed him leaving here on a dream to
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Street Light | Wenatchee, WA | 2015 Sometimes we can’t see how to get past an impediment. It blocks our way and keeps us from moving forward. So we back up and smack into it again. And again. And … well, we smack it until
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