Feb

28

country mouse

  I’ve been living in New York City for a year and a half now. I love it. I love it. But that doesn’t stop me from missing the upstate farmland of my childhood and daydreaming about a future that involves things like a “second home in the country.” You know, a small fixer-upper that [...]

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Feb

22

swept away

  “A new broom sweeps clean, but the old broom knows the corners.” – Irish proverb  

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Feb

16

i would like to go here: sphinx

  Calm yourself, Egypt, calm yourself soon! The whim of the week is your Desert Cat!   The Sphynx is grand in its loneliness; it is imposing in its magnitude; it is impressive in the mystery that hangs over its story. And there is that in the overshadowing majesty of this eternal figure of stone, [...]

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Feb

03

rolling on the river

  “I heard stories from my mother’s mother…She used to tell me stories of the rivers.” – Tina Turner   The Congo   The Nile   The Ganges   The Seine   The Yangtze   The Thames   The Euphrates   The Tiber   The Zambezi   The St. Lawrence   The Columbia  

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Jan

20

your papers please

                                        PS. For serious collectors, check out the great passports at Passport-Collector.com.    

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Oct

28

the singularity of snow

  In 1885, Wilson A. Bentley attached a microscope to a camera and began photographing snowflakes. He described them as “tiny miracles of beauty” and “ice flowers.” His 5,000 images supported the theory that no two snowflakes are alike. In 1931, after walking 6 miles in a blizzard so he could photograph more snowflakes, he [...]

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Sep

17

Afghanistan, once upon a time

  This is one of my favorite images from the Khalilullah Enayat Seraj Collection of the Williams Afghan Media Project.      

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