September 30 Picture

September 30
Afro-Colombian Mural: Currulao y Desplazamiento
U Street Corridor, NW

“It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.”
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September 29 Picture

September 29
Self – portrait… Goals
Washington Panorama Mural – Rosslyn, VA

“Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.”
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September 28 Picture

September 28
Washington D.C. –

Life is like riding a bicycle - in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving. ~Albert Einstein
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September 27 Picture

September 27
Dressed up POM-CHI Love
My little pupp-a-roni’s, Melvin & Marvin

“The more one gets to know of men, the more one values dogs.”
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September 26 Picture

September 26
Cultivating the Rebirth – Columbia Road mural
Painted by local students & artists – Summer 2010
Northwest Quadrant, Washington D.C.

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
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September 25 Picture

September 25
A Self – Reflection: MURAL
Carlos Rosario Public Charter School
Columbia Heights, NW, D.C.

“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows”
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September 24 Picture

September 24
Mount St. Sepulchre Franciscan Monastery

“ The light at the end of the tunnel is well worth the journey it took to get there.”
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September 23 Picture

September 22
National Harbor –
Prince Georges County, MD

“Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall.
Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day.
Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down.
And this is all life really means.”
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September 22 Picture

September 22
Reflecting in West Potomac Park

“Love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image...
otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”
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September 21 Picture

September 21
Self – Swinging Portrait…
Dolphin Head - Hilton Head, S.C.

“The door to safety swings on the hinges of common sense”
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September 20 Picture

September 20
Lifers.Us.DC.SC.Beach.Friendships.Grow…
Hilton Head, S.C.

“I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.”
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September 19 Picture

September 19
Self - Portrait
Dolphin Head – Hilton Head Plantation

“A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.”
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September 18 Picture

September 18
Self Discovery!

“He who knows others is learned;
He who knows himself is wise.”
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September 17 Picture

September 17
Self - Preservation

"Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life."
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September 16 Picture

September 16
“Full Count” by John Dreyfus – baseball statues
Foggy Bottom neighborhood

Why does everybody stand up and sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" when they're already there?
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September 15 Picture

September 15
A Self – Portrait:
“I feel like I am diagonally parked in a parallel universe.”
National Gallery of Art – Part of the “6-part seating”

(This is for the driver who kept me asking for my license {there’s a story behind that})
“Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead”
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September 14 Picture

September 14
U.S. Park Police & The White House
Random street photography

“Home is heaven and orgies are vile,
But I like an orgy, once in a while.”
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September 13 Picture

September 13
Self – Portrait: @
Albert Einstein Memorial
Central Washington D.C.

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."
(Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)”
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September 12 Picture

September 12
Freedom Plaza, NW, D.C.

“Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.”
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September 11 Picture

September 11
Remembering...
9/11 & the passing of my amazing grandmother, Baba around the same time...
This is for you Baba

"We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence,
Grandmother was that person to me."
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September 10 Picture

September 10
A SELF – Portrait:
Pershing Park – 14th & Penn Ave, NW

“Metaphor for the night sky: A trillion asterisks and no explanations.”
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September 9 Picture

September 9
A SELF – Portrait: TOILET mentality
“Nothing ever gets anywhere.
The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere.
The moment is the only thing that counts.”

New York Avenue, Washington D.C.
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September 8 Picture

September 8
A Self – Portrait: BOOTS
“One must always have one's boots on and be ready to go.”

(B/w the National Gallery of Art East & West Buildings)

“Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.”
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September 7 Picture

September 7
Temperance Fountain
Washington, D.C.

“Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance”
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September 6 Picture

September 6
Tidal Potomac River & Rosslyn, VA Skyline
“Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.”

Happy Labor Day!
“Without labor nothing prospers”
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September 5 Picture

September 5
Hula Hoop time in D.C.
West Potomac Park

“There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.”
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September 4 Picture

September 4
A Self – Portrait: NOW
Donald Gaines Murray statue - Thurgood Marshall Memorial
Lawyers' Mall, Annapolis, Maryland

“What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment. And this is the moment you can choose to make everything new. Right now.”
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September 3 Picture

September 3
A Self – Portrait: THOUGHTS…
Tidal Basin, Potomac River
“Anywhere is paradise; it's up to you.”

“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.”
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September 2 Picture

September 2
A Self – Portrait: Depicting the Depression
FDR Memorial

“The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.”
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September 1 Picture

September 1
Biker & Lincoln Memorial

“Life is like riding a bicycle - in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
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