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Identity Crises
[Image: ‘A Little Family History,’ by B. Kliban] From whiskey river: Moment A person wakes from sleep and does not know for a time who she is, who he is. This happens in a lifetime once or twice. It...
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Well-Fancied Choices
Click here to view the embedded video. [Video: “custom movie trailer” for the 1945 film Detour. A piano player hitchhikes across the United States to be with his girl. On the way, he crosses paths with...
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Step by Step, and an Ounce at a Time
[Image: Beast of Burden, a sculpture by Sarah Perry. For more information, see the note at the foot of this post.] From whiskey river: Burlap Sack A person is full of sorrow the way a burlap sack is...
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Liquid Assets, Compounded
[Image: “Butterfly Splash,” by Alex Koloskov. For more information, including an “e-videobook” tutorial on creating this sort of effect, see the photographer’s site, which is where I found it.] From...
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Endistanced
[Video: zooming in from a Milky Way-wide view all the way to galactic cluster NGC 3324, dubbed the Gabriela Mistral Nebula for its resemblance to the profile of the Chilean Nobel Prize-winning poet....
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Natural Wonder
[Obviously, this displays the global distribution of… something. But what? See the note at the foot of this post.] From whiskey river: The world of the living contains enough marvels and mysteries...
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Step Back. Good. Now, Look Again.
[Whale in a green sea, by Jorge Vaz (a/k/a jfmfaz, on Flickr). Found it at the blog of North Vancouver artist Therese Lydia Joseph.] From whiskey river (italicized portion): The trouble with you and...
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Something Happened (or Threatened to (or Didn’t))
[Image: untitled photograph by David Solomons, from his 2009 book (and gallery show) Happenstance.] From whiskey river: The next suitable person you’re in a light conversation with, stop suddenly in...
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Little Figures, Big Contexts, and the Distance Between Them
[Video: Ariana Grande, “Tattooed Heart.” I’m probably making people sick of this performance.] From whiskey river: When we remember our former selves, there is always that little figure with its long...
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A Day of Small Things
[Image: “Invasion of Nature,” by user AndreasS on Flickr. (Used under a Creative Commons license.)] From whiskey river: The contemplation of nature has two correlative aspects. First, it means...
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Groping at (but Never Grasping) Mystery
[Video: “Who Done It?” by Harry Nilsson (on 1977’s Knnillssonn album). The string opening is reportedly the only so-called “Nilsson” recording not actually written by Nilsson himself; it’s the Allegro...
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Container, Meet the Thing(s) Contained
[Image: “A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words,” by sk.fotography. Found it on Flickr; used here under a Creative Commons license.] From whiskey river (italicized...
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The Other Side of Some World (Maybe This One)
[Image: Detail of “Antipodes,” a sculpture by James Sanborn. (Photo by Flickr user wanderingYew2 used here under a Creative Commons license.) “Antipodes” is currently in the collection of the...
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The Familiar, the New
[Image: “Hiraeth,” by Stewart Black. Found it at Flickr.com, and used here under a Creative Commons license. For more on the idea of hiraeth, see the passage below by Paula Petro.] From whiskey river:...
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How Comes the Dawn
[Image: “The Blue Hour,” by Dave Toussaint. (Found on Flickr; used here under a Creative Commons license.) Toussaint reports that this shot of Yosemite Falls was taken roughly 45 minutes before...
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Spirit Within Reach — Overlooked, Unrecognized, Disregarded
[Image: “Dryad’s Saddle – Untouched Macro,” by “LadyDragonflyCC.” (Found on Flickr, and used here under a Creative Commons license: thank you!) Dryad’s saddle is a mushroom, scientific name Cerioporus...
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A Careful Decoding of the Obvious
[Image: “Now this one shouldn’t be too hard to locate!,” by Photos of the Past — a/k/a user “whatsthatpicture” — on Flickr.com. (Used here under a Creative Commons license; thank you!) This is one of...
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No Other Body, No Other World
[Image: “Stringed Relief” (1937), by Henry Moore. Nothing in particular suggested a connection between this image and the theme(s) of today’s post. Yet I would say everything in general suggests such...
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Omnium-Gatherum Quotidian
[Image: “Plum Blossoms and Moon,” by Katsushika Hokusai; woodblock print, ink and color on paper (1803). Found it at the site of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). The museum notes that this comes...
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Spirit from Material
[Image: “Spirits in the Material World, Plate 3,” by Thomas Hawk; found on Flickr, and used here under a Creative Commons license (thank you!). As has happened before, with other photographers, I find...
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