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“A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.”
~ Mark Twain
PLACE: Home Sweet Home
SUBJECT: Stair
I've got a few habits that aren't cooperating with the stair method ...
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There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
PLACE: Forest Preserve
SUBJECT: Dusk
With clocks being set back an hour tonight, I thought I had better get one last shot of a "late" dusk.
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“People who don't Think probably don't have Brains; rather, they have grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake.”
~ Winnie the Pooh
PLACE: Forest Preserve
SUBJECT: Fluff
This photo a day project has surprised me on many levels, but two things have stood out as "uber" surprising. First, it seems there is always something in bloom at the Forest Preserve - no matter what season there is always life - and second, sometimes my camera sees things much differently than I do and what I think is a mistake turns out to be my favorite shot.
I think there are a couple of life lessons in there ...
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For me, the summer will be pure gray - mother-of-pearl gray, very pale gray. To me, this is the big statement for summer. Then we have light blue, light turquoise, lots of pink.
~ Gianni Versace
PLACE: Home Sweet Home
SUBJECT: Pink
I was taking out the trash when I looked up and saw the most monochrome rainbow I've ever seen. It was early - the sun was just beginning to rise - and everything, including the rainbow, was pink.
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We do not read the Bible the way it is; we read it the way we are.
~ Evelyn Uyemura
PLACE: Church
SUBJECT: Bibles
Many of the kids who show up on Wednesday nights do so without Bibles.
There's an "Easy Button" for that!
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American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at
driver's license age than at voting age.
~ Marshall McLuhan
PLACE: Podunk Illinois
SUBJECT: Vote
I wasn't going to do it. I was convinced my silence would be my strongest voice.
Then I changed my mind.
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I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.
~ Edward Steichen
PLACE: Podunk Illinois
SUBJECT: Branches
The sunsets are beautiful this time of year - illuminating the naked branches.
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