An Abridged Life - Nabokov and Cemeteries

"...and although there is plenty of space on a gravestone to contain, bound in moss, the abridged version of a man's life, detail is always welcome." 

Vladimir Nabokov - Laughter in the Dark

Image and Story: Death, Bergman, Levi, Reveille

"In the brutal nights we used to dream

Dense violent dreams,

Dreamed with soul and body:

To return; to eat; to tell the story.

Until the dawn command

Sounded brief, low

'Wstawac'

And the heart cracked in the breast."

~ Primo Levi Reveille (excerpt)

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.