Aquaduct Pump Station

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B&W vs. Color

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Tangled and I’m blue

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Clouds in my sky…

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The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary.
~Alfred Kreymborg~

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You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.
~Henry David Thoreau~

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B&W

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A void heart…

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My heart descended into

A fourth dimension in time

Bursting into a thousand pieces

A supernova leaving only remnant

To be swept up by a dark matter

My core ceased to exist

Gravity collapsing inward

Under the force of my own will

Denying illumination embracing a

nebulous atmosphere of space and time

Where your heart was no longer
mine

Leaving

Behind

A

black

hole…

Infinity…

Absent

Of

All

Rhyme

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By Donna Brown Bowles (C)
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We make our dreams come true

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Remember today, for it is the beginning of always. Today marks the start of a brave new future filled with all your dreams can hold. Think truly to the future and make those dreams come true.
  *Albert Einstein*

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There’s never enough….

“YOU CAN NEVER GET ENOUGH OF WHAT YOU DON’T NEED.”

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Positively

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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
Joseph Campbell

  
When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It’s all a matter of perspective.
Harvey Mackay

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Live free…

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Regarding Peace…

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Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Buddha

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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True serenity…

Is to find peace in the midst of the storm.

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Regarding love…

People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.

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Abandoned Treasures

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Railroad Boneyard

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Serenity scenes

Today is the tomorrow I was afraid of…

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Hold on tight to your dreams…
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Just Believe…

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Live free…

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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PRIVATE ROAD

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Dreamscapes…

You
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Are

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Always

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In

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My
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Dreams…

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Dragon profiles a Stereotype

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Profiling isn’t a good idea

Do you know why

It could change the way humans identify

I am not St. George’s horse

As referenced in the book

“Folklore of the Dragonfly.”

I never even knew him

They would have you believe
I am a devil horse that flies
Oh my…

The romanian word for devil is “drac” but “drac” also means dragon in romanian

Because of all this mixed up stuff  my name translated as Dragonfly

Confusing right? Just another way to stereotype

Now I cannot tell you how many times this made me cry

Blue Dasher a preferred name of I

But I had no say in scientific decide

My kingdom is in Animalia

I have class of Insecta

My family is Libellulidae

I could go on
but why

The simple truth is this

My mother loves me

She named me Blueray
I am known as the blue dasher

I help with insect control

Especially mosquitoes as some of you already know

Now that you know the truth maybe next time before you stereotype

You’ll think twice…

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Stand tall…

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Stand tall
Stand for truth
Stand for something
Or you’re bound to fall

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Heart of stone

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I used to scream so loud in the dead of night but no one could hear me

I would never turn out the light in hopes that someone would find me

Memory of a winter’s night my heart was so cold it had turned to ice

In summer it thawed but it had been hardened so long it turned to stone

I would tell you my heart was so sad and that it hurt so bad but that would not be true

My heart was silent for my spirit had died

And the only thing I know is

Stones can’t lie

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Comparisons

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Abstract

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The bridge I must cross…

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Sometimes I hide from what I know to be true for it frightens me

My journey insists I cross a bridge that I rather not cross

Like a child’s uncertainty walking by the light of the moon

So my thoughts intrude in my clouded mind persuading me to higher ground

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I must cross or I will surely die

A bitter death of a spiritual kind

Intuitively I am painfully aware that I mustn’t haste

A day dream becomes my reality
demanding I move from my comfort zone

I am afraid…

What is on the other side…

Can you tell me

Or maybe I could continue

To hide…



No
I
Want
To
Be
Alive

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Be you…

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“We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
(Marianne Williamson)

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A gift from the heart

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My daughter Candice is so thoughtful. She is always buying, or makeing me unique gifts that are usually a treasure of nostalgia.

She gave me this necklace last year while I was in Portland Oregon. It appears to be one made in the 70’s.

She gave it to me for no apparent reason other than, she thought I would love it, and of course like everything she gives me or makes me it’s sincere and precious to me.

I miss Portland and I miss my children.  I have two daughters and four grandchildren that reside there, and I’m certainly overdue for a visit.

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RETURN TO LOVE

The book, “Return to Love,” by Marianne Williamson, has profoundly influenced my life. It’s changed my entire perspective on religion vs.spirituality.
If anyone is struggling with religion this book will help improve their tolerance and love, for not only themselves, which is first foremost of importance, but their view of the entire world.
The importance for taking responsibility to enhance our own spiritually is the key to living a fulfilling life. We can retire from blaming religion for our lack of unwillingness to learn how we can, “return to love.”
Dawna Bowles

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Here are a few excerpts from the book,

1.) Love in your mind produces love in your life. This is the meaning of Heaven. Fear in your mind produces fear in your life. This is the meaning of hell.

2.) “…a miracle is a reasonable thing to ask for.”

3.) “Do what you love.
Do what makes your heart sing.
And NEVER do it for the money,
Go to work to spread joy.”

5.) “When infants aren’t held, they can become sick, even die. It’s universally accepted that children need love, but at what age are people supposed to stop needing it? We never do. We need love in order to live happily, as much as we need oxygen in order to live at all.”

Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of “A Course in Miracles”

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Playing with my beads

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Making tracks

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Growing old is mandatory

Growing up is optional…

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Blooming cacti

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Fallen Angel

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Flourish..

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APIARY

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A day to remember

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Embrace Creativity

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Escape…

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Create 4 peace & love

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Ocean Bottle

My new bottle I made for my grandson Jameson.

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Hemp

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Wood
Jagermeister bottle
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Create

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Love

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Abandoned…

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I’m lost and I can’t find my way home…

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Feeling groovy

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Clouds of my mind

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I love dates…

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Trainscapes

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Sleeping…

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While you were sleeping

I saw you in my dream

Your eyes were closed

Your heart had been eaten

I was awakened by

The echoes of your scream

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I was there remember?

Lies cannot escape light

Anymore than truth can

Escape the darkness of

Them that condemn

The laws of the Universe demand!

Darkness roamed the earth

For seven thousand years

While sewage over flowed

With the reaper’s empty tears

wasted years…

Drifted

Off

the

Clouds

In

My

Dreams

And

Fell

Into

An

Empty

Black

Space

Of

Time

Where

Black

Holes

Are

Unforgiving

But

Wait…

It

Was

Only

A

Dream

Or

Maybe

A

Nightmare

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BAXTER

He’s a girls best friend…

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Loyal till the end

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At such a cost

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Delivering corporate merchandise

To Americans

Always low prices

Or maybe

Always paid with a price

Blood stains on their trains

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as we lie bleeding….

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Waiting…

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For
You
To
Come
To…

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Just another beautiful day…

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Experiments…

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I feel the earth move under my feet

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I feel the sky tumbling down…

By Carole King

I feel the earth move under my feet
I feel the sky tumblin’ down
I feel my heart start to tremblin’
Whenever you’re around

Ooh, baby, when I see your face
Mellow as the month of May
Oh, darlin’, I can’t stand it
When you look at me that way

I feel the earth move under my feet
I feel the sky tumblin’ down
I feel my heart start to tremblin’
Whenever you’re around

Ooh darlin’, when you’re near me
And you tenderly call my name
I know that my emotions
Are something I just can’t tame
I’ve just got to have you, baby

I feel the earth move under my feet
I feel the sky tumblin’ down, a tumblin’ down
I feel the earth move under my feet
I feel the sky tumblin’ down, a tumblin’ down
I just a lose control
Down to my very soul
I get a hot and cold
All over, all over, all over, all over

I feel the earth move under my feet
I feel the sky tumblin’ down, a tumblin’ down
I feel the earth move under my feet
I feel the sky tumblin’ down, a tumblin’ down
A tumblin’ down, a tumblin’ down, a tumblin’ down
Tumblin’ down

(Carole King)

I’m just feeling a little nostalgic tonight.

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Juxtaposition

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I was there

Do you remember…

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Or did you trade your heart once more

For a rock of fools gold…

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Palo Verde

The state tree of Arizona

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Insanity…

Is repeating the same behavior,  and expecting different results

(Albert Einstein)

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Resentment….

“Is when I take the poison and wait for you to die.”

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Canal

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Erie night canal…

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ANOTHER DRIVE BY SHOOTING

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Love always wins…

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Color blind

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Wild Things

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I can see your heart sing…

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You are in my dreams again

Another night I fell

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Inside my lovely dream

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Only to find you are mine again

But for a moment of time

Awakened I realized

I was only dreaming

I scream..

I am alone

With

No

Echo…

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Arizona

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Against All Odds

Unmeasured

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Beauty

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Serene

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Consumes peace and silence…

Grass Skirts

On  mother earths bronzed body

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Deserted

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Heated

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Loved

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And needed…

DOUBLE CROSSED

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One

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More

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Time

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However

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I forgive you

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Love wins…

3:10 to Yuma

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HARD BARK

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