Reflex photos

Hand

a hand, a door, a question

" An unconcious choice is a reaction. A concious choice is a response" Gary Zukov

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Ringling Museum Color

fantastical, a multiple choice of line and color for the eye to follow

"You bring  a future into your reality each time you make a choice, and as that future becomes your present, you must choose again." Gary Zukov

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Head Weathered

  'A woman of a Certain Age'

"This must have been my life but I never lived it" -Her childishly wide stare at some diminishing reel of space and brightness, half illusory, half not, stuns to an epitaph.  And I can read it all: how a little lie whitened to twenty years; how she was chosen by something called happiness, yet nothing, nothing was hers.  And now she has to turn away, and her bruised eyes are smiling in their nets: "I'ts simple, isn't it? Never say the yes you don't mean, but the no you always meant, say that, even if it's too late, even if it kills you." Carol Rumens

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Frame Light

lazarus      second day

i am not the same man borne into the crypt.      as ones return from otherware altered by what they have seen,      so have i been forever. lazarus. lazarus who was dead.      what entered the light was one man. what walked out is another. Lucille Clifton

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Mirror Ball

Words are mere bubbles of water, but deeds are drops of gold Chinese proverb

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Woman

" People who think only a model type can be a beautiful woman are as lacking in sophistication as those who think only a burger and fries can be a tasty meal" Victoria Moran

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Jack In The Pulpit

It is only since I have had my own child that I have known how much I always failed to do what I might have done for the happiness of you both... It seems to me as if I never sympathized with you as I ought, or tried to embellish and sustain your life, as far as it is possible. Margaret Fuller, American writer and critic, to her mother Margarett C. Fuller, Nov. 7th, 1849

Mother's Day

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Shadow Woman

It is startling to go around the corner, through the doorway, and to be confronted with this statue.  This is the deep South with predominant Christian belief. She is so serenely Eastern and ornate that you are instantly transported. Strange juxtaposition.

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Sunshine

sunlight, warmth, comfort

The Sun Judah Al Harizi (c.1170-1235)

Look: the sun has spread its wings over the earth to dispel the darkness.

Like a great tree, with its roots in heaven, and its branches reaching down to the earth.

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Dance Spirit

Veterans Day Parade, waiting to start and high spirits

'The Door"

the day after the national election the sky cleared and the sun found it's guitar.  i ran to the plaza and soon discovered myself dancing in the middle of a jubilant crowd.  a nation of song, a nation of thousands pushing like the sea to the cathedral.  i felt the sweet sweat of arms, legs and chests.  i found my place among the living, the dead, the ghosts, the children waiting to be born.  something more powerful than victory was in the air.  i could breathe again.  my prison door was open.  my country was outside.  she had been waiting for me.  E. Ethelbert Miller (b.1950)

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