Tunnel | Asheville, NC | April 2019
We often know our direction but not our destination. What matters is to move forward and hope our route’s significance becomes (more…)
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Parking Space | Asheville, NC | April 2019
The old concrete sits cracked and crumbling. Fissures and stains criss-cross the slab — relaxing behind a warehouse built a century ago — and reveal designs carved through decades of use. Wagons and trucks unloaded here. Heavy machinery toppled here. Ice, rain, weather gnawed here. Perhaps like the (more…)
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Eggs | East Wenatchee, WA | March 2019
The chicken came first, in case you’re wondering. Their reptilian ancestors — yep, our feathered friends were once scaly lizards — most likely reproduced through viviparity, or giving live birth to their young. That biological trend advanced to ovoviviparity (internal eggs) and, much later, into (more…)
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House Boats | Kennewick, WA | April 2019
I sit and watch birds flap by, their wingbeats duplicated on the glassy river. Clouds scud east, their movement duly recorded by the mirror-like surface. A woman in a yellow robe waves to me from her house boat window, then disappears from sight. But wait … a ripple of yellow robe remains reflected (more…)
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Flyby | Minneapolis, MN | April 2019
Consider from above the dynamic roil of traffic, trains and planes in one small portion of a bustling city. Within each blurred vector — a kinetic smudge — a person moves with purpose, each an “I want” in a mind-boggling swirl of desires. Me? I want the childhood promise of (more…)
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Theater Seats | Wenatchee,WA | February 2019
Velvet’s plushness results from using the same thread to weave two facing layers of fabric. When sliced apart, the fibers form a peach-fuzz surface that’s valued for its softness and durability. A year into retirement, I continue to shed my outer layer — the career veneer — to reveal (more…)
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Landscaping | Richland, WA | April 2019
Because rainfall here is scarce, we pay particular attention to solitary plants. Same for our late-life friends. We focus on cultivating relationships that (more…)
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Warehouse | Richland, WA | April 2019
In our get-it-done culture, an untethered day has to be one of life’s great luxuries. You know: The day as a blank canvas (sort of like the warehouse in photo) unblemished by appointments, errands, or social responsibilities. In other words, life free of clock and calendar. The only obligation is (more…)
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Flashlight | Twisp, WA | April 2019
Ah, there it is. I’d searched drawers, shelves and closets to find the flashlight. All along, it stood at attention in plain sight. Dead batteries meant a trip to the hardware store, where I waited in line behind a man who’d just returned from the Oregon Coast. We talked about visiting the city’s fine aquarium, and the shivers we got from (more…)
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