Nostalgia To glimpse old abandoned barns that dot county roads often awaken memories of a childhood filled with the freedom to roam from dawn to dusk without a morsel of worry.
black and white photography
rocky mountain foothills
water drops
…the clearing in the still center of becoming, the track on which the centered person moves – it whispers, “Realize me.” But no sooner is it glimpsed than it is gone.
~Stephen Bachelor
reflections
…instead of a coherent personality that stretches back in an unbroken line to a first memory and looks forward to an indefinite future, we discover a self ridden with gaps and ambiguities. Who “I am” appears coherent only because of the monologue we keep repeating, editing, censoring, and embellishing in our heads.
the remembered present
Perception is never purely in the present – it has to draw on experiences of the past; … ‘the remembered present.’ We all have detailed memories of how things have previously looked and sounded, and these memories are recalled and admixed with every new perception.
~Musicophilia
Oliver Sacks
engrossed
pursued by relentless and insistent desires
cee’s black & white photo challenge: isolated subjects
spectators
“… the present situation [is] the fruition of former choices…engage it as the arena for what is to come. …embrace the ambiguity of a present that is simultaneously tied to an irrevocable past and free for an undetermined future.*
*cited:
Buddhism without Beliefs
Stephen Batchelor
pg. 47
black & white sunday: after and before
tour de fat
street photography assignment: ask for permission to take photo
black & white sunday: portrait
Street portraiture submitted to Lost in Translation’s photo challenge
weekly photo challenge: mirror
This image is submitted in response to Jen’s photo challenge: Mirror
a meditative journey 
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