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• Photography and the black and white perspective

  September 24, 2022

  My latest copy of the excellent photographic publication, B&W Magazine, came the other day. As always, it is a treat to glance through the pages at the fine examples of black and white photography contained in the portfolios and in photographers’ display ads which usually feature a representa...

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• A very special kind of nostalgia: “Things go better with Coke!”

  September 18, 2022

  Coca-Cola recollections and the “Good Old Days” Part 2 Some of you may remember when six-ounce soft drinks in a bottle were commonplace. They could be found in those big clunky vending machines that took a dime and released a mechanism so you could pull out the bottle from its formerly locked pos...

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• The “Old Lamplighter” lit more than street lamps long ago

  September 14, 2022

    Wherever he would go The old lamplighter Of long, long ago His snowy hair was so much whiter Beneath the candle glow The old lamplighter Of long, long ago You’d hear the patter of his feet As he came toddling down the street His smile would cheer a lonely heart, you see If there…

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• Love letter in the sand: the tide comes in and the tide taketh out

  September 12, 2022

  The beach at high tide is an interesting place. The ocean encroaches gradually until all that’s left is a thin sliver of land between the dunes and the water. It is usually there at the farthest reaches of the beach that people, would-be sand artisans, construct both the prosaic and fanciful sand...

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• Wait a minute. It’s not that simple, is it?

  September 10, 2022

    Things go up and things go down, it’s as simple as that. Unknown author Yes, but my answer to that is, “When things go up, how long are they going to stay up, and when things are down, what can we do to make them go up?” Life is way, way too complicated. Nothing…

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• No going back: The Internet has radically changed everything we do in daily life and has probably rewired our brains

  September 6, 2022

  Once again I’ve been thinking about a really fascinating topic, namely, how technology has affected our lives in the past years 25 years. What do we do differently now as opposed to then? Turns out, just about everything that affects our day-to-lives. It’s a topic that resonates with me because w...

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• “Ordinary Mysticism”: Everything is extraordinary in some way if you look closely enough

  September 1, 2022

    There are times when I feel most connected to life in the awareness of fleeting experiences that come to me in little epiphanies during the day. It doesn’t matter where I am. They are predicated on many things, however.. The time of day, the weather — including the sky and clouds and how t...

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• Altered states: different ways of seeing and thinking about reality and consciousness, and of actually “being” in the world

  August 26, 2022

  If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake These days I can much more fully understand why people take drugs or mind-altering substances. Why, for instance, Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World experimented with hallucinogens (me...

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• Back to school: everything was new, dreaded but exciting

  August 20, 2022

  Who can think of this time of year without recalling bittersweet memories of September pending, and a new school year looming abead after the blissful abandonment of summer? I remember counting off the days starting at about the two-week mark prior to the first day of school. As the days ticked o...

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