~Regarding dogs~

A dog knows everything about you

And loves you regardless

Unconditionally forever and always

No matter what

She knows you better than you know yourself

Dogs are like that

Angels in disguise

A girl’s best friend

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~Simplicity~

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The truth is always simple

The journey is not

Humans complicate

The result

Common core

A lost society

That can’t find its way home

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Rush hour traffic in the desert~

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~Under the bridge~

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~Railroad Elements~

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~Animated photos~

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Another beautiful day in the desert. 62° and sunny.

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~Uninvited guests~

Are reluctantly welcomed…

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~Drive by shootings~

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~Regarding Peace~

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.”
~Jimi Hendrix~

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~There’s a hole in my sky~

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There’s a hole in the sky

where my heart fell through

It fell to earth and broke

For you…

……………………………….

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~Regarding propaganda of war~

“One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”
George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia, 1938

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I used to feel small and insignificant

Until I took a photograph

of my shadow

I felt a sense of greatness

When I posted my shadow on the wall

Photography is like that…

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~Slip Sliding Away~

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~Arizona sunset~

Last night I was driving

Against a most lovely storm

Silhouetted by the sunset

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Rendering  hope

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As the sunset found serenity

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In the midst of the storm

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~The Desert Scorn~

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The brazen scorn of the desert

Can seem punishing

Although we must ask ourselves

Is truth a punishment

If we choose to look its way

There’s a certain beauty

Even in the face of shame

The sun’s wrath to some

May be seen as a curse

But to others it may be a gift

In our deepest hour of despair

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Regarding The Railroad

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“The Railroad is an therapeutic map for me to find my peace.”

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~In Living Color ~

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Color eases our perceptions

It reveals all truth o itself

Unlike a black and white photograph

That persuades us to analyze

What we have envisioned

Its message to be

Then when we are convinced of it

We awake the next day

Only to find that it has changed

While we were sleeping

In living Color…

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☆Too Much Turkey 4 Tinker☆

Tinker had eaten a little bit too much turkey on thanksgiving.
She is so fat she can’t fit into her winter clothes from last year. 
I had to get her a new outfit yesterday at the Ross.

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I can’t believe it’s almost been a year since I adopted her from the animal shelter.  I remember when I first set eyes on her she was so tiny/skinny and frightened.

The pound attendant said they had found her running wild in the city of Yuma.  She was living on the streets for thanksgiving last year.  It breaks my heart to think of it.
Alone, starving,  and certainly terrified!

I look at her now and she’s so contented.  Always happy and just a  precious addition to our family.  I’m so thankful to have spent this Thanksgiving with her. She ate until she was full, well, maybe over full,  but don’t we all overeat on the Holidays. Then she climbed into her new fluffy winter bed and, well, here are the pictures, see for yourself if you think maybe she ate too much.

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B&W photography & life

“There is a gray area between the black and the white, and it’s called balance.”

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“The things I see sway me to become better, See more, and believe.”

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~Peace~

Serenity is to find Peace in the midst of the storm.”

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~A verdict on fire~

Leaves a raging sky…

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A Divided  nation…

With

Lies

Now

Lies

Broken…

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~Division~

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Until You Return

This poem is such a inspiration. I adopted my chihuahua last December. I never thought I would want to own a chihuahua; however, I walked through the pound 3 times. All the dogs were barking and excited. Then I notice a tiny little chihuahua (Tinker) in the corner. She was just looking up at me with her big sweet eyes. She wasn’t barking or wagging her tail. Just looking.

I felt her spirit at that moment. A broken spirit and a broken heart. She had given up. I knew she needed me, and I needed her.
We have had many miles of love in our new journey.
Adoption is the most beautiful thing you can do.

~Tinker~

My sweet little Tinker all cuddled up in her new, soft, warm bed. 

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~Disconnected~

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~A sunsets warning~

Our sky is on fire…

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~Yuma Hot Air balloon~

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~Regarding Truth~

“Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.”
~Thomas Paine~

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“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.”
~Thomas Paine~

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~Waiting~

Alone I watch the desert skies

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Wondering where you are and how you arrived…

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I continue to wait for you to fly and rest from your journey

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Like you used to when you were tired of flying against the wind

This time you’re really flying high

You have probably forgotten

where you are and where you’re going

I’m sure by now that you cannot find

Your way home

Yet I wait

Why…

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~His map~

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His map in his hand

A dream in his heart

A familiar feeling of long ago

Yesterday seems so far away

On a paper map without a soul

He knows each road

Will lead him to a dead end

Where a house sets alone

Wearing a sign that reads

Condemned…

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~He who cannot remember the past…~

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The night of broken glass

Repeats itself

A diversion seized

Our memories

A history of Humanity

Spoken in darkness

Relentless war raging

While a nation cries

In a world on fire

We burn…

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HIS JOURNEY

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He travels many miles.

He stops only to find the birds have eaten the crumbs he dropped along the way.

The countless meals he ate in silence.

He knows now that there is no map to return.

He finds a new road.

He finds himself as one with isolation.

Peace reassures him that,

He is on the right path.

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~ONLY A FAINT MEMORY ~

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The only thing left is a red tint of memory

A  dark shadow on my wall

A shattered mirror

Where your broken spirit used to appear

Narcissistically…

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~A LITTLE HUMOR IS GOOD FOR THE SOUL~

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Once upon a time, a mother made her son a wristband. On it was written: WWJD? This, of course stood for: “What Would Jesus Do?” She instructed her son to look at the wristband before making decisions on how to live his Christian life.

A week later she was shocked to see that her son had become friends with prostitutes, was hanging out with ‘sinners’ — even buying people another round of beers!

Worse still, he had walked into their church the previous Sunday and tore down the book store, overturned the tables and threw the cash register through the window, he then made a whip and chased the pastor out of the building, declaring he was turning God’s house into a den of thieves.

Most shocking was what happened when his mother went to picket the local abortion clinic. To her embarrassment, her son was also there, but he was standing with the women who just had an abortion, and yelled at the protesters: “You who are without sin, throw the first stone!”

The mother was very distressed, but fortunately she found a solution to this terrible problem. She made another wristband, this time it read: WWAPD? This, she explained to her son, stood for: “What Would A Pharisee Do?” She took the old WWJD? wristband and burned it.

Since her son has been wearing the new wristband, looking at it to help him make his decisions, he has become a dedicated tither, a public prayer warrior, an active condemner of ‘sinners,’ judges with wrath, and has a great reputation as a godly young man amongst other religious people.

Needless to say, the mother is very happy now. She only wishes Jesus would take notice and follow her son’s good example.
~Mick Rooney~

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~Bridge over troubled water~

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~A town without pity~

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LOVE 

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~Sunset~

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A sunset is a preparation for night

Also a memorial for today

Night sets the stage

For morning’s sun rise

Darkness can be a solace

When you realize

It is always darkest

Just before the dawn

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~Watercolor~

This is my third attempt at water color.
I think I’m getting a little closer to my goal. 

I ran it through PhotoShop a few times to see what would happen.  It was fun:)

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~where have you gone~

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I have returned

But you’re not here

When I left you said…

Oh never mind

I don’t want to remember

It’s been too long

Although I must say

I wished you would have stayed

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~Regarding Art~

“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”
~George Bernard Shaw~

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“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.”
~Pablo Picasso~

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~Staying focused on the good~

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Where did I go

I was in the middle of finding

The most beautiful part of me

A diversion led me away

When I returned

I had lost something

Something so profound

Now there are only fragments

Scattered in my mind

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~THE SKY IS FALLING ~

My arms are tired from holding up the sky

It’s falling and I can no longer abide

Earthquakes break like dominoes

Mountains shake and crumble in humility

I can no longer outrun the earths collide

Ships recklessly pollute our seas

The ocean had once washed our shores

But things have changed dramatically

As waves explode upon her chest

Infecting sand upon the land

As reckless captains do command

Purging toxins she now bleeds

Disease cries from sea to shore

Fierce winds fuel a world on fire

Our men are turned into war machines

I cannot look another day

For when I do my heart breaks in-two

It cracks and my faith pours out

I need a miracle this very hour

Take this cup from me I pray

Heal our scars

Cleanse our souls

And Lord, one more thing before you go…

The skyis falling and you see

This burden is too heavy

Will you hold it up for me?

~Just believe~

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Another night slips in with uncertainties.

A world on fire burning with lies.

A nation torn apart by greed.

Thunder rumbles… dividers they conquer.

Do not attend their battle.

Turn your head away.

Do not look to the left nor the right.

Look straight ahead and believe.

Winds will blow that you cannot control.

But you can adjust the winds in your sails.

It is only a distraction and a wicked scheme.

Its purpose is to steal your peace and love.

Then break your heart and steal your dreams.

Continue to believe in love.

This is of the utmost importance in this final hour.

Remember this night before you sleep.

Everything is going to be exactly the way it is supposed to be and, God has a plan for your life.

You are loved beyond measure.

And soon you will be set free.

Be still…

Believe…

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☆Love wins in the end☆

You are my comfort

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And my strength

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I believe in peace and love

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I know that your word is true

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I believe that the end is near

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I read the end of the book and I know who wins

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Love wins

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And God is love and love never fails…

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~Tonights nightmare~

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I was awakened in the night

By roars of monstrous sounds

Pounding over my pillow

Crashing through my skies

Rendered thoughts…no…no…no

It cannot be time

I heard boots marching

Choppers thundering

Screams of innocence

It is too late to run

But somehow I knew

It wasn’t to late to fly

I covered my head

I said a prayer

I tried to make believe

it was only a dream

But I knew it was the final nightmare

So I believed that I could fly

As I had  practiced many times

In my dreams throughout my life

My memories gave me faith

Faith became light

Light became hope

Hope became courage

Courage became wings

That lifted me up above

All the cries of Humanity

And all that refused to fly

All death that was smitten

By those who came

To kill steal and destroy

One will be taken

And one will be left…

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~We Need Change ~

   

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Nothing changes if nothing changes.
I’m not sure if I can express what’s in my heart. All I know is that it feels like broken glass and it ripping me a-part.
A-part of me wants to be set free. Yet a part of me is afraid.

I read and search beyond the scenes, behind the stage where lies are practiced to deceive. A media without  consciousness, lusting for blood, death and power, for anyone who might interfere.

Many are willing to be sacrificial lambs. Eager to please, in exchange for popularity and exceptance. Willing to slay their own, for monetary gain. They sleep well, and moan in their secret dreams.

Many are unaware.  They are trapped, and are intimidated into sharing a feast with hungry wolves that duel upon their breast, and leave them feeling defiled.

Many know, as I, but do nothing to stop them. We write, read, paint, create, and photograph to excape. The ugliest truths that were ever told.

We read political propaganda, and know it’s a lie, as it eats like a cancer into our consciousness, and rapes our minds. Creating a great divide, between the truth, and the red tides of death that crush our hearts and silence our screams!

I hate how I feel! I just want to run as
long as it takes, to stop feeling, and knowing all that I do. It is so sorreal!

Why am I paralyzed?

Why are you?

Why do I wait for the slaughter?

Why do you?

When will I stand?

When will you?

When will I fight?

When will you?

When will we take back our land?

When it’s too late?

The time has come and…!

Very soon it will be gone…!

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Wake up and take a stand!!!!

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~LAST NIGHT~

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I went to bed last night

And I fell asleep

I fell…

And fell…

Into my dream absent of time

When Your heart was free

Your spirit was kind

Serenity and peace

Set you apart

I was frightened

I tried to escape

I screamed…)))))

And when I awoke

You were standing over me

Holding a mirror so I could see

Dreams…

What do they mean…

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~Waiting for your letter~

It’s been a long time

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Since I have heard from you

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Memories cloud my eyes

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It’s true…you are really gone…

When you left you took my heart with you

Could you mail it back…

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~Show your true color’s~

“It is better to hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

~Andre Gide~

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~Listening?~

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I heard a knock in the night

Who could this be…

I answered with a shout

My gun in hand

Ready for a bout

Who is it I protested

A voice replied

Just

checking

to

see

if

you

were

Awake…

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While I was sleeping…

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I closed my tired eyes one night.

Exhausted by the sight of our world.

Disease of deception crept in.

When I awoke, years had passed.

What happened?

How could this be?

Why did you let this occur?

Why didn’t anyone stop them?

We are prisoners of the enemy!

A thousand hollow eyes stare back at me.

One man speaks out…

“The barb wire protects us from the enemy!”

I look around as to find a way out.

Another demands, “This is a new America!”

The “puppets” shout, “Yes we can.”

I stand in protest; I run!

An American soldier slams

A gun into my chest…!

“Relax, you’re not going anywhere!”

“You’re one of the reasons we’re all here!”

“No,  I exclaimed, you can’t blame this on me!”

I’m sure it was planned by the enemy!

The soldier raised his brow, and glared a chilling stare then turned his head to hide the tears.

HE said,

“The American troops were sent away in order to train foreign troops, to conquer our land and we had no way to let you know.A lie is all that you were told because of the media blackouts around the world. All communication was blocked by Bush and Obama alike. NOTHING was done to execute their plan!”
“But I was sleeping”, I exclaimed!

His tears fell into my heart…

While a sleeping nation fell a-part…

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~California date farm~

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~A dogs loyalty~

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“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”
~Mark Twain~

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You can…

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Burn our books,

Limit our freedoms

Deny our inalienable rights

You will never possess

The wisdom of our minds

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Nor the freedom of our spirit’s

We are not bound by this world

Our allegiance is omnipresent

A light you cannot see…

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We are free….
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~Carmine stains~

Trains

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Delivering

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Merchandise without names

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Made by absent faces crying in the rain forever…

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~Help them Father~

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If I cry out in Your Name

Would You hear my burden

And take away their pain

Only You know what they’ve been through

Will You hold and protect them

Your mercy I know it’s true

I need a miracle this very hour

Grant them a vision

So they might see

The love they long for is endless in Thee

Touch their hearts and heal their minds

The price You paid was not in vain

You conquered death

So that they might live

I cannot watch them die another day
Father I lay them in Your arms

With my one last breath

I turn my head and walk away

My thoughts…

“I understand now how You felt…”

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Where is Heaven…

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As I consider the heavens in my sky

I ponder as to where

This place is we call heaven

My thoughts propose

Surely an impossibility

I sit in silence for a moment in why

Aware the greatest distance

Is between my head and my heart

Awaiting an answer…

An aura of heaven confirms it is real

Peace encircles a doubtful heart

The breath of angels wisps

In a breeze caressing my soul

Heaven is how you feel

When everything else is so unreal

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~Artist~4~Peace~

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I paint what I can’t express in words

I write what I can not paint

Drops of paint drip off my brush

As rain runs down my window

Blurring my perception

of what I think I see

My brush caresses with colors

In a memory of uncertainties

Upon an empty canvas

willing to be free

I now sit alone with thoughts

That have no place to go

They slam against my chest

Shooting pains into my heart

That take away my breath

Purging what I’ve hidden

Deep inside of me

unto a sarcastic template

Insisting words that I should see

Fonts in Braille as I tap reluctantly

I turn my head away

As a pianist’s fingers

Pounding chopsticks on the keys

So is my will to remember

My lost forgotten dreams

How did you know

Where to find me

I was lost so long ago

A confirmation that art

Wakes a sleeping soul

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~Moon Beams~

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Moon beams a bequeath of vision

As the night unfolds

Elimination of fears unknown

A colored space of light

In a blackness of time

Do not be fooled by what you feel

Sometimes our fears are so unreal

Perceptions of dark maybe

Is an absence of light

Dark is only a limited reflection

Of its ability to absorb

A mirrored perception

Do not fear in the darkest hour

Faith is the substance of things unseen

Follow

Him

And

just

believe

It’s

Time

Can you see…?

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Still waiting…

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Don’t want to be left behind…

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A troubled girl by a troubled world…

My sister painted me today

She was troubled by the state of our

world in so many ways

She said painting takes it all away

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So here I am

Used as a canvas

As a healer of pain…

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~Regarding Ants~

This is by far the biggest ant hill I have ever seen. Just goes to show that in fact, hard work pays off. They have built an ant castle:)
Amazing!

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“It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?”

~Henry David Thoreau~

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Heaven in the mirror…

May be closer than it appears…

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I was wondering…

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What makes a man refuse to see

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Why can he look up in the sky and see the clouds and still not see the light

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Or smell the grass

Or feel the breeze

Or touch the blue

Of the Skies

Why

Oh

Why…

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Regarding Freedom

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“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
~Abraham Lincoln~

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Rumbles in the still of the night…

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Trembling in your dreams…

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~A feeling without evidence~

Will persuade you to awareness

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In your search for truth and…

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Can be painfully obvious when discovered.

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Regarding Kindness…

“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
~Mark Twain~

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~Train Art~

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Wasting time…

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“Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes time and annoys the pig.”
~Mark Twain~

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Carry the message of love to those that want to learn.

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Arizona style…

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Words make us feel…

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What is real

Your words

Hit my chest

Cracked my heart

Open

Just enough

To let you in

And I am now able to touch

What I never could..

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Feel…

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Capture time…

A photograph is a feeling about an awareness of something inside you that you always wanted to know, yet the more you feel it, the less you  understand it, but long to…

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And you continue to capture particles of time and awareness of the moment

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Your photograph is a reflection of who you are, or maybe what you want to be, or where you can go…

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At times you get lost, and you are glad because if you didn’t, it wouldn’t be worth the journey…

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Time has come and gone…

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Decorated Dam

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Seashells serve the dam as a decor, cleverly laid upon the banks for the eye of the lens to adore.

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Bridge to peace

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A place to hide and feel what I  never could

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Escape from the other side where things are not what they seem

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I used to believe I had no place to go

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But I found this perfect place inside

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Under here…in 1904

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Damn Landfill…:)

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Arizona mud resulting in the exhumation of millions of mollusk shells.

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Under the bridge…

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Art is what gets us beyond what is real. It makes reality more real. It also shortens the distance we gotta travel to see how connected we are.
(Laura Pritchett, Sky Bridge: A Nove)

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Sign of the times

I’m not the only person who likes bridges 🙂 this is a interesting shot 🙂

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Fenced off

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Pottery

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Pinhole photography

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Whispers…

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There’s always one in a crowd

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Light at the end of a tunnel

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And I’m glad it’s not a train this time.

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Relief…

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College

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In between classes, it’s nice to find a shade tree, and bench for resting.

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Ambiguous

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Regarding the cinema

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Interstate snake…

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A little humor is good for the soul.

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DESTINY

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By Donna Brown Bowles

DESTINY

Awakened in a dream.

A reminiscence of lapsed time.

A mirrored reflection.

When summer lasted for years.

Wild flowers in fields of gold.

Reflecting all the stories told.

Vivid rainbows after a storm.

A promise to all who had known..

When the sun out shined the winters cold.

When I had the wings to fly.

Clouds began to cry.

Alone, their tears fell.

Then they took away my sky.

Pain cut deep within my soul.

In preparation for my journey that lied ahead.

It is my road alone.

I must trudge in isolation.

A road less travelled.

A destiny till my end.

God, will You hold my hand?

~Donna Brown Bowles (C)

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Train

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Cacti comparisons in color

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Memories…

“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever. . . it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.”
~Aaron Sussman~

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Capture the moment…

“You don’t take a photograph. You borrow it,  when you capture a moment of time and savour it.”

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B&W photography

“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.”
~Ansel Adams~

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“There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.”
[~Ansel Adams~1902 – 1984]

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The lens to the soul…

“When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!”
~Ted Grant~

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Graffiti Lux and Murals Luxuriating in Ephemeral Art

http://graffitiluxandmurals.com/
Visit this page to view an extraordinary display of street art.
It’s absolutely beautiful!

Graffiti Lux and Murals
Luxuriating in Ephemeral Art

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Heavens

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“Our spirits are like a body of water, when they are still they best reflect the heavens.”

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Focus on photography or be silent

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“When words become unclear, I shall focus on photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”
~Ansel Adams~

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Regarding Electricity

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“Watson, … if I can get a mechanism which will make a current of electricity vary in its intensity, as the air varies in density when a sound is passing through it, I can telegraph any sound, even the sound speech.”
~Alexander Graham Bell~

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