Channeling Zheng Chongbin

Pretzels

Comfort

Tomato

Glasscape

In the Glass Shop

Cause and Effect

Quick Hello

Neither Here Nor There

Urbanscape

Office Geometry

Boss' Office

Letting the Light in

Theater of Shadows

Living Sphere

Summer Sky

"Uprooting is a devastating blow because you have to separate yourself overnight from something that, for as long as you can remember, has been an important part of your identity. In a sense, you are your culture, customs, language, country, your family, your lovers. Yet exile, should you survive it, can be the greatest of philosophical gifts, a blessing in disguise. In fact, philosophers, too, should be uprooted. At least once in their lives. They should be exiled, displaced, deported — that should be part of their training. For when your old world goes down it also takes with it all your assumptions, commonplaces, prejudices and preconceived ideas. To live is to envelop yourself in an increasingly thicker veil of familiarity that blinds you to what’s under your nose. The more comfortable you feel in the world, the blunter the instruments with which you approach it. Because everything has become so evident, you’ve stopped seeing anything. Exile gives you a chance to break free. All that heavy luggage of old “truths,” which seemed so only because they were so familiar, is to be left behind. Exiles always travel light." More wisdom here:  http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/16/the-wisdom-of-the-exile/?_php=true&_type=blogs&smid=fb-share&_r=0

Comet Leaf

Monet Pond, UT

Milonga Passions

Yet Another

Floating Redux

Midafternoon Lace

Masha

Past and Future Poppies

Floating

Dasha

Snowed in In August

Walking Out

Ruffled Feather

Walking the Dog

Dry Tree by the Church Window

The Red Door

Some Parallel, Some Crossing

Connecting Something...

Reunion

All Light

In the Bubble of the Past

Slice of Orange Sky

Contained Blue