A swimmer in the air

"..if you have only one of something you can't say.. ..it is the best of anything.."

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..traindreams..

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..nature song..

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.. January..

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..willow love..

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In the dark I rest,

unready for the light which dawns

day after day,

eager to be shared.

Black silk, shelter me.

I need

more of the night before I open

eyes and heart

to illumination. I must still

grow in the dark like a root

not ready, not ready at all.

Denise Levertov

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Chess players in the snow on Tsvetnoy Bulvar, Moscow, ca. 1950s.

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..morning walk..

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A tree is a passage between earth and sky.

Richard Powers, The Overstory

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Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take.

Edvard Grieg

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..misty morning walk..

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The possible’s slow fuse is lit by the imagination”

Emily Dickinson

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December calendar pages for early 1900′s by Theodorus van Hoytema (Dutch, 1863–1917).

Images and text information courtesy MFA Boston.

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What will survive of us is love.

Philip Larkin

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.. along the dark edges of everything..

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a search for meaning…

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Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.

William Faulkner

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..half asleep, half awake, we shall hear, we shall know..

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