August 31, 2011

August 31, 2011
Self – Portrait: Peroni
Arlington, VA

"Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with."
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August 30, 2011

August 30
Self – Portrait: Steps
Washington Sailing Marina

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
~Mark Twain
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August 29, 2011

August 29
Self - Portrait: Tree pose
Tidal Basin

"Tree pose grows confidence."
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August 28, 2011

August 28
Self - Portrait: I'm here
Eastern Market

"From mirror after mirror, No vanity's displayed: I'm looking for the face I had. Before the world was made."
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August 27, 2011

August 27
Self - Portrait: Framed mirror
SW Waterfront

"Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror."
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August 26, 2011

August 26
Self - Portrait: Fans!
Hershey's Chocolate World, PA

"Forget love - I'd rather fall in chocolate!"
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August 25, 2011

August 25, 2011
Self – Portrait: CIRCLES
Lincoln Memorial

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time. – Abraham Lincoln
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August 24, 2011

August 24, 2011
Self – Portrait: Focal Zoom
Washington D.C.’s New York Avenue

“Whence? Wither? Why? How? - These questions cover all philosophy.”
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August 23, 2011

August 23, 2011
Self – Portrait: Ars longa, vita brevis (Latin)
Martin Luther King, Jr National Memorial on the Tidal Basin

“A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.”
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August 22, 2011

August 22, 2011
Self – Portrait: Peeping
Annmarie Gardens (Fairy & Gnomes)

“The house does not frame the view: it projects the beholder into it.”
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August 21, 2011

August 21, 2011
Self – Portrait: Knowledge
Lincoln steps overlooking Ohio Drive, Arlington Memorial Bridge across the Potomac

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment. – Lao-Tzu
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August 20, 2011

August 20, 2011
Self – Portrait: True.
Fort Smallwood Park (Pasadena)

“Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.”
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August 19, 2011

August 19, 2011
Self – Portrait: Reflection
Great Falls National Park – Potomac River

“I believe that in our constant search for security we can never gain any peace of mind until we are secure in our own soul.”
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August 18, 2011

August 18, 2011
Self – Portrait: Passing time
Tidal Basin

“Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; yet nothing troubles me less.”
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August 17, 2011

August 17, 2011
Self – Portrait: Reach.
Annual Floral Library (Tidal Basin)

“How a minority, Reaching majority, Seizing authority, Hates a minority!”
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August 16, 2011

August 16, 2011
Self – Portrait: Self knowledge.
West Potomac Park

“Sometimes a person has to go back, really back-to have a sense, an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward.”
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August 15, 2011

August 15, 2011
Self – Portrait: Reflecting
Shenandoah River (West Virginia)

“It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture the soul. The soul has different concerns, of equal value: downtime for reflection, conversation, and reverie; beauty that is captivating and pleasuring; relatedness to the environs and to people; and any animal's rhythm of rest and activity.”
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August 14, 2011

August 14, 2011
Self – Portrait: Here.
Flea Market at Eastern Markets

“The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too.”
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August 13, 2011

August 13, 2011
Self – Portrait: Film Grain
Le Passat

“No man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.”
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August 12, 2011

August 12, 2011
Self – Portrait: Ta-Da!
Manassas National Battlefield Park (2nd Battle)

“Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.”
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August 11, 2011

August 11, 2011
Self – Portrait: LIFE
Tidal Lock, Rock Creek Pkwy – Potomac River

“The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.”
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August 10, 2011

August 10, 2011
Self – Portrait: Benched!
East Potomac Park

“Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.”
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August 9, 2011

August 9, 2011
Self – Portrait: Passing by …
National Gallery of Art mirrors (b/w the East & West Buildings)

“The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours.”
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August 8, 2011

August 8, 2011
Self – Portrait: Reunion …
Historic Frostburg Maryland

“Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.”
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August 7, 2011

August 7, 2011
Self – Portrait: Stepping stones.
C & O Canal NPH – Potomac River Valley

“You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on”
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August 6, 2011

August 6, 2011
Self – Portrait: Up there.
Great Falls National Park

“Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.”
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August 5, 2011

August 5, 2011
Self – Portrait: T.A.N.S.T.A.A.F.L.
WAT LAO BUDDHAVONG Temple

“Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you're a vegetarian.”
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August 4, 2011

August 4, 2011
Self – Portrait: Observation
Backdrop: Baltimore World Trade Center
Baltimore Inner Harbor at night

“One must always tell what one sees. Above all, which is more difficult, one must always see what one sees.”
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August 3, 2011

August 3, 2011
Self – Portrait: Obsession that’s still a mystery.
Finding more STIKMEN on the National Mall – new ones up & down Jefferson Drive.

“There is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, to discover what is already there.”
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August 2, 2011

August 2, 2011
Self – Portrait: People watching during sunset time …
On the National Mall (Washington D.C.)

You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.”
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August 1, 2011

August 1, 2011
Self – Portrait: Sunrise (6:24 AM)
Isle of Palms, SC

“Each golden sunrise ushers in new opportunities for those who retain faith in themselves, and keep their chins up....”
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