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/ Otto Bettmann, Girl Waiting for Train, Chicago, 1960

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Kurt Schwitters.

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I-80 highway through Wyoming. nicknamed The Sisters, for the three sets of hills that create an optical illusion of the road rising into the sky

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THE COMPANY OF WOLVES (1984) + winter

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 Light in the Evening , Minakami - Shiro Kasamatsu

Japanese , 1898-1991

Woodcut , 36.5 x 24 cm.

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Josh Ritter - "Change of Time" - from the Live at The Iveagh Gardens DVD

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Triptych of photos from an exploration of Downtown Minneapolis.

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"Eric Sloane was an American painter best known for his airy, idyllic landscapes inspired by the work of Hudson River School artists. Many of his later works focus on New England folk culture and aspects of colonial life, and often feature imagery and architecture that is endemic to the region such as stone barns, covered bridges, and rocky mountainscapes. He painted in a realistic style with a warm palette, choosing to include a high level of observed detail.

"Said to be the finest cloud painter of his generation, his largest cloud painting graces an entire wall of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington DC."

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The search for reason ends at the known; on the immense expanse beyond  it only the sense of the ineffable can glide. It alone knows the route  to that which is remote from experience and understanding.  Neither of them is amphibious: reason cannot go beyond the shore,  and the sense of the ineffable is out of place where we measure,  where we weigh. We do not leave the shore of the known  in search of adventure or suspense or because of the failure of reason  to answer our questions. We sail because our mind is like a fantastic seashell,  and when applying our ear to its lips we hear a perpetual murmur  from the waves beyond the shore. Citizens of two realms,  we all must sustain a dual allegiance: we sense the ineffable in one realm,  we name and exploit reality in another. Between the two we set up a system  of references, but we can never fill the gap. They are as far and as close  to each other as time and calendar, as violin and melody,  as life and what lies beyond the last breath.

~ Abraham Joshua Heschel

from Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion

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meander, a short comic about a river, and bivalves, and the fossil record. inspired of course by john mcphee’s basin and range!

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Roxborough State Park, Colorado by Michael Levine-Clark

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Planet Earth II (2016) Episode 03 “Jungles” Directed by Emma Napper

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My friend Jack is headed for Arizona and wouldn't be able to use a pair of Minnesota Twins baseball tickets so he gave them to me. Actually, the Twins no longer issue physical tickets. Instead, I have an app on my cell phone by which I can summon a barcode.

When Jack is in Arizona he plans to see the Grand Canyon. I was last there in 2018. This is a picture I took from the Bright Angel viewpoint, located on the North Rim of the Canyon. I envy Jack a little. I don't feel prepared to travel at this time.

Go, Twins!

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From: Stanisław Dróżdż, ALEA IACTA EST, (assemblage of dice, board; detail), 50th Venice Biennale, Polish Pavilion, Venezia, June 15 – November 2, 2003 [Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi, Łódź. Dolnośląskie Towarzystwo Zachęty Sztuk Pięknych, Wrocław. © Estate of Stanisław Dróżdż. Photo: © Andrzej Świetlik]

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Mesmerizing Digital Collages of People Climbing Stairs

Korean artist Jiyen Lee has created a series of hypnotizing digital collages that present people going up and down stairs, as seen from a bird's eye view.

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The Lake Plateau.

Having not squeezed enough from the experience the first time around, I return. Besides, it's cold outside.

Everything everywhere all at once. Random reflections on misspent youth. Misplaced passions. Near misses. Narrow escapes. Turning left when I should've turned right. But one way to look at it.

Isn't life strange? Stop making sense. There is no recompense. Feel better, darling?