Ferns Unfurling

To sink one's teeth into what cannot be removed or thought or sought after.

A green-softened spine curling up from its self, to its other. 

Getting Your Children Outdoors - Baby Cages?

"With these facts in view it is the purpose of the present invention to provide an article of manufacture for babies and young children, to be suspended upon the exterior of a building adjacent an open window, wherein the baby or young child may be placed."

~ Emma Read's Portable Baby Cage U.S. Patent #1448235

Philosophical Graffiti - Palais de Justice de Bruxelles

"Master of a body is not master of a life."

~ graffiti on the steps of the Palais de Justice de Bruxelles 2005. 

Photographs and The Pain of Others

Zimbabwe, 2000. AIDS sufferer in a tuberculosis ward

"This sleight of hand allows photographs to be both objective record and personal testimony, both a faithful copy or transcription of an actual moment of reality and an interpretation of that reality - a feat literature has long aspired to, but could never attain in this literal sense."
                                          ~Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others. 

Savary Island Crooked Stairs

Easy and difficult paths combined. 

Fred Astaire & Gene Kelly

"I just put my feet in the air and move them around."

~Fred Astaire

Romanesque Chapel and Daudet

“Oh, this terrible second me, always seated whilst the other is on foot, acting, living, suffering, bestirring itself. This second me that I have never been able to intoxicate, to make shed tears, or put to sleep. And how it sees into things, and how it mocks!”

                              ~ Alphonse Daudet