It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing. From The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway Sunday Sentence: The sentence(s) that touched me this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen.
Month: January 2014
Joyride, 1924 style
You really have to love the fact that youth never really changes. Inspite of all the standards and means that we’ve put into place to insure a quality education and quality life, when boys see a hotrod, they can’t help themselves, today just the same as in 1924. There is something beautiful in that connection…
The Wave, Arizona
One really great side effect of all the advances in photography and accessibility on the internet is that we, the average person, can see how wonderfully strange our own planet can be. We really should take better care of it. I’m not sure we’ll find another one like it out there. Visit National Geographic’s site…
A picture to inspire a 1000 words – Chansonnier
When one looks at this photograph, it is easy to see why the image of Paris in the early years of the 1900’s still holds such an inspiring place in our collective mythology. The image begs you to write the story of the place, of the man, of the time, of anything and everything that…
Rock, Paper, Scissor…what!?!
So 2013 turned to 2014 and the world keeps spinning. All of the world’s problems, from hunger to excess, are still sitting there, waiting to be solved. Humanity simply watched with optimism as the calendar flipped, hoping that, perhaps by magic, the new year would bring with it all the answers without any of the…