tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751185351326470362024-02-20T18:24:28.146-08:00Photographic Impressionistic Illusionistic...blurring the lines between reality... and dreamsMark Wadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379003801731955134noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-175118535132647036.post-68414453944596483932018-10-15T08:07:00.002-07:002018-12-28T07:46:40.815-08:00Farewell ...I Mean Good-bye G+<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The recent advent of Google's decision to close G+ has me thinking and re-thinking my use of Google products. Most specifically, this blog. I just re-opened this blog for it's simplicity and functionality.<br />
Alas, I have made the decision to migrate away again. My new blog will allow me to post material without giving up any copyrights...I do like that idea.<br />
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Here is the new site:<br />
https://photographicimpressionistic.com/<br />
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Thank you!<br />
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Mark Wadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379003801731955134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-175118535132647036.post-66255232700224720862018-09-27T08:28:00.000-07:002018-09-27T08:28:25.741-07:00Going Home<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Where we say</div>
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"I belong"</div>
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Mark Wadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379003801731955134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-175118535132647036.post-75748595768438795542018-09-20T08:02:00.000-07:002018-09-20T08:02:02.932-07:00Bridal Agreement<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Transformed ions</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Heat activated</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Its life </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A laughter</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In silence</span></div>
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Made this below <span style="font-size: large;">Bridal Veil Falls</span> - Yosemite Valley<span style="font-size: large;">. The trees were thick and the available light was minimal. </span>I asked the river to <span style="font-size: large;">slow down</span> so I could freeze the action and it bellowed its <span style="font-size: large;">displeasure</span> to the thought. "Why <span style="font-size: large;">would I do that?</span> I was frozen yesterday. Around here, <span style="font-size: large;">we only</span> move forward!"</div>
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So, I leaned against a tree and balanced myself as best as I could, and made a<span style="font-size: large;"> two-second exposure</span> handheld.</div>
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Mark Wadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379003801731955134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-175118535132647036.post-75567268801632400392018-09-18T08:51:00.002-07:002018-09-20T07:47:51.864-07:00Outside In, Inside Out -<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sometimes we just watch it all go by</span></div>
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Mark Wadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379003801731955134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-175118535132647036.post-31954607444087059132018-08-17T10:36:00.001-07:002018-08-17T10:36:52.082-07:00Jumper<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: #dae5d6; color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: start;">There's not enough time in the day</span><br style="background-color: #dae5d6; color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: #dae5d6; color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: start;">Is what we say</span><br style="background-color: #dae5d6; color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: #dae5d6; color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: #dae5d6; color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: start;">Yet every single night we fall asleep</span><br style="background-color: #dae5d6; color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: #dae5d6; color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: start;">Jump from the bridge</span><br style="background-color: #dae5d6; color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: #dae5d6; color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: start;">Into the deep</span></div>
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Mark Wadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379003801731955134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-175118535132647036.post-10775061016910964182018-08-15T07:12:00.001-07:002018-08-15T07:12:36.696-07:00Ay Caramba!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Why so sad?</div>
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Just look around.</div>
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It's not all bad.</div>
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Down on the ground.</div>
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Mark Wadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379003801731955134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-175118535132647036.post-77214339785421968992018-08-10T19:55:00.002-07:002018-08-10T19:58:12.824-07:00Baby Ducks<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Mark Wadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379003801731955134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-175118535132647036.post-62298356380342799222018-07-03T20:51:00.000-07:002018-08-02T16:17:34.738-07:00Cliché <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Mark Wadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379003801731955134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-175118535132647036.post-38185367925668048292018-07-02T18:22:00.001-07:002018-07-02T18:22:14.984-07:00High Steppin'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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My daughter's pygmy goats...</div>
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Mark Wadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379003801731955134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-175118535132647036.post-8766358808747073082018-06-20T08:39:00.001-07:002018-06-20T08:39:44.658-07:00Walk With Me<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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My dear, the pipes are calling</div>
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Sounding dread and hope</div>
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And yet should my return</div>
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Be of only dreaming</div>
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Hold me hand this once more</div>
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And remind me now my bonny lass</div>
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Why I must go</div>
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Mark Wadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379003801731955134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-175118535132647036.post-91959531163587848152018-06-15T13:51:00.002-07:002018-06-15T13:51:41.294-07:00The Other Side<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Most peaceful places</div>
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Mark Wadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379003801731955134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-175118535132647036.post-46440850494360892602018-05-23T09:37:00.002-07:002018-05-23T09:38:15.965-07:00Which Way?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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If you hang around under the bridge, you're going to find some stuff!</h3>
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Mark Wadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379003801731955134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-175118535132647036.post-47517052675500381902018-05-21T09:58:00.001-07:002018-05-21T10:01:07.117-07:00At Some Point<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I stopped caring what everyone else wanted me to do with my art. And in some sense I assume a lot of people stopped caring about what I did...mostly because it did not fit into their preconceived ideas, nor did it add to their tribal movement. (Or maybe I just suck!) Clubs are great. We can belong to them, and we can hit people over the head with them. Take your pick, both are exclusionary, discriminatory...the ultimate excuse for cliques. Why am I so bitter today? Man, I need a vacation.<br />
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Suddenly....no wait...<br />Not suddenly....<br />As a matter of fact as slowly as is usual.<br />Spring has descended like the seeds of the cottonwood. Drifting, landing, accumulating.<br />It happens e-v-e-r-y....s-i-n-g-l-e.....y-e-a-r!<br />There is no fanfare to shake us up and remind us. It just happens and (mostly) we don't care. Well, except maybe as it applies to what we need to wear for the day to be comfortable.<br />It's boring, especially when our experience of it is from an automobile travelling at 58.6666667 feet per second (40 mph). Or off in the distance we notice, "hey look the field is green".....and that's it. Over.<br />Noted.<br />Whatever.<br />But those opinions are no matter to boring people like me. You see, some of us like to go right into the middle of those changes and watch them happen. There may be small swarms of caterpillars wandering the trails and in several weeks, we know moths or butterflies will be hovering about in all their splendor. Male bush-tit, phoebe and wren species will put on displays vying for mates. Mallards will defend their mates with vicious battles to win the right to procreate.<br />Migratory species will descend thick and heavy. Some will mate and lay their eggs. Some will travel northward bound.<br />There is a lot going on, but the only way to see it is to get in the middle of it (as unobtrusively as possible). The first years of doing this are great, but it's the subsequent following years that are most revealing. Patterns of species are realized, and certain beliefs can be challenged through simple observations.<br />A renewed respect is inevitable, and the realization that we humans are so ignorantly pompous and self important almost always manifests itself.<br />Recently, a fellow photographer bellowed the concern that ALL photographers need to become more political in their work. (Apparently very unhappy about the current political climate.) This paradigm seems to control much of the exhibitions across the board in public life. We Must Fight! We must Change (something). We Must We Must!!!<br />That is ok I suppose....to be so wrapped up in a "cause" that every sweaty pore reeks of those self-important singular statements.<br />At this point, I would need to apologize to that photographer, because I say NO. My observations of nature have zero correlation to politics, and I refuse to mix the two. Can we just for a moment consider the poison of telling anyone how they are supposed to approach their work. Maybe I like to look at things as the way they are and represent them how they uplift me, or send me to transcendental places. These are moments of joy. Why would you ask me to taint these intimate moments with politics? Think about it next time.<br />That is not to say that I am not political, nor does it not escape my attention that we need to take better care of our earth. And it doesn't mean that I do not support political groups that are looking to that end. It just means that the filth of politics will stay out of my work, because regardless of how banal it may seem to everyone else, the beauty I attempt to convey is...enough said.<br />Peace</h2>
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Mark Wadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379003801731955134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-175118535132647036.post-53784445090861076142018-03-30T07:26:00.001-07:002018-03-30T07:26:49.377-07:00Don't Touch Me<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Mark Wadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379003801731955134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-175118535132647036.post-31973982080818867032018-03-20T15:04:00.003-07:002018-03-20T15:04:58.163-07:00Bye Plane!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: #dae5d6; color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Years ago.</span><br style="background-color: #dae5d6; color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: #dae5d6; color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">I made photographs of my beautiful daughter on the branches of that tree.</span><br style="background-color: #dae5d6; color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: #dae5d6; color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">It was warm and the fields were brown.</span><br style="background-color: #dae5d6; color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: #dae5d6; color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">She is now married and teaches art...and would probably not even consider attempting to climb what is left of the tree.</span><br style="background-color: #dae5d6; color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: #dae5d6; color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">A few years later.</span><br style="background-color: #dae5d6; color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: #dae5d6; color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">My wife and I made photographs of an engaged couple who were to be wed.</span><br style="background-color: #dae5d6; color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: #dae5d6; color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">They moved to Alabama, and now have a baby.</span><br style="background-color: #dae5d6; color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: #dae5d6; color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Not too long ago.</span><br style="background-color: #dae5d6; color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: #dae5d6; color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">I watched a wren family feed their chicks in a hole at the end of one of the branches.</span><br style="background-color: #dae5d6; color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: #dae5d6; color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The male was a bully, and bossed around the mama relentlessly.</span><br style="background-color: #dae5d6; color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: #dae5d6; color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">When I returned to see how they were faring....they were gone.</span><br style="background-color: #dae5d6; color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: #dae5d6; color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Not a trace.</span><br style="background-color: #dae5d6; color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="background-color: #dae5d6; color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: #dae5d6; color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Post processed in TOPAZ</span></div>
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Mark Wadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379003801731955134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-175118535132647036.post-8651783466829153472018-03-01T10:25:00.000-08:002018-03-02T11:07:14.943-08:00The Indelible Mark of Freedom<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">Once it hits you, it just becomes a part of your workflow.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">Instinct.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">Pushing out all the rhetoric that others cage themselves with opens the mind to all possibilities. No more narrow field of view. The camera is set up manually...even focus is made manually.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">There is no regard to manifestos, "classic techniques" or "the masters" (means and methods). These are respected, but mean little to a walk that looks to understand the holistic experience at the personal level (interpretive impression). </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">Color over there, warm components right here, crazy level lighting in that direction, subjected forms at that level over there with specific values that will add to the message.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">There is a sense of urgency as colors and clouds are shifting continuously. Test runs are made to confirm value interactions...and then it all busts loose before it changes too much. One frame.....second frame....wait....wait....third frame subject is not cooperating. Sometimes the wait just takes FOREVER before finishing....(several minutes). By then the light has changed! Adjust for changes. Maybe a secondary subjective value? Yes...there...that's it....BAM!</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Occasionally, it works. Other times I have to leave the area completely to find the final segment because too much has changed.</span><br />
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Mark Wadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379003801731955134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-175118535132647036.post-50198810210690977762018-02-23T10:06:00.001-08:002018-02-23T10:07:04.712-08:00Triangular Trance<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Mark Wadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379003801731955134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-175118535132647036.post-20278021161495613042018-02-12T07:10:00.002-08:002018-02-12T07:40:19.580-08:00Arsenal - Landscape Photographer Killer?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Product Here: https://witharsenal.com/<br />
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It was only a matter of time before someone figured out how to harness the functions of the new tech cameras and create an intelligent point-and-shoot remote. I have only briefly reviewed this product page, but am impressed with what this thing may actually produce.<br />
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It appears that if you mix someone who is a software developer and amateur landscape photographer, this is what you get. Apparently, no longer will you need to understand the limitations of the camera to get a fine art level photo. This device will figure it out for you by assessing the scene, run some calcs and spit out a perfectly made shot.<br />
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This development will make fine art photographers out of many who are good at composition. It won't be their efforts of making settings with the camera, but that won't matter any more. Not all art buyers are photographers...and... they really don't care "how you got the shot". At the least, it will add yet many more landscape photographers adding their work to the www. Ultimately, this will drive down the perceived value of artistic prints (my opinion).<br />
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Mark Wadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379003801731955134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-175118535132647036.post-46603453309061955382018-02-06T12:19:00.000-08:002018-02-06T12:19:15.092-08:00The Magic of a Song<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It starts as a poem in the heart of a wordsmith.<br />
Written down, spoken aloud.<br />
Edited.<br />
Rewritten.<br />
How does it roll off the tongue?<br />
Is the cadence "right"?<br />
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Does it tie you "to the kitchen floor"?<br />
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Once it works in the mind and all is in its place.<br />It is set free for listening.<br />For interpretation.<br />
To follow and open the mind<br />
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Sung by anyone else<br />
With chops, without chops<br />It overwhelms and the singer is left without any choice.<br />
Just sing it.<br />
It's mine, yours, it's everyone's... everything<br />
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Unstoppable.<br />
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Mark Wadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379003801731955134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-175118535132647036.post-22145266528926821012018-01-18T07:23:00.004-08:002018-01-18T07:23:54.123-08:00Summer Thicket<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It's crowded</div>
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Here, in the thicket</div>
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Where everything is</div>
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Being lost</div>
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Becomes the refuge </div>
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Of preference</div>
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Mark Wadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379003801731955134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-175118535132647036.post-73309594477516551612018-01-15T08:45:00.003-08:002018-01-15T08:46:18.439-08:00Breathe<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: #dae5d6; color: #2c3635; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Listen to the wind</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #dae5d6; color: #2c3635; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The breath of our earth</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #dae5d6; color: #2c3635; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Sit and be still</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #dae5d6; color: #2c3635; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Lensbaby</span></div>
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Mark Wadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379003801731955134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-175118535132647036.post-35153956823356694682018-01-09T07:06:00.000-08:002018-01-09T07:06:02.801-08:00Ground Squirrel<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: #dae5d6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Is nothing like ground beef, or pork.</span></div>
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If a ground squirrel lives in the ground</div>
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Then I must be stucco human</div>
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Mono Lake Visitor Center Lawn </div>
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Mark Wadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379003801731955134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-175118535132647036.post-16335672647051954902018-01-08T06:23:00.000-08:002018-01-08T06:23:06.577-08:00Where Rivers Are Born<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Opportunities<br />To cleanse ourselves<br />Left the building</div>
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Long ago</div>
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Presently<br />The remaining remedy</div>
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Stabs our backs</div>
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But necessary</div>
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Mount the conveyor</div>
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And keep the mouth closed<br />For god's sake<br />Keep the mouth shut</div>
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Long enough</div>
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To pass under it's power</div>
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Water, crushing the hatred</div>
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Exposing the old purity</div>
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Respect of self<br />Respect of others</div>
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