This Is Me

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I cross-processed this photo in Photoshop because of her compelling eyes.  It all just seemed to fit.

Since I had the baby I can't tolerate anything violent or sad, I saw the Matrix and I had my eyes closed through a lot of it, though I didn't need to. I would peek, and then think, oh OK, I can see that. 

Lisa Kudrow

I'm No Angel

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This one's a beautiful mess; a spunky, growly, spirited 3-year-old.  She had been having a lot of fun  "building mountains". 

"He doesn't let nobody mess with him, ... He's always been tough and spunky and I think if you're like that, you can overcome a lot."

By Rodney Roberts

Middle of July

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The first photo is the original.  The second one is cross-processed in Photoshop.  I hope there's not some little kid out there crying!

“Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.”

Albert Schweitzer quotes (German medical Missionary, Theologian, Musician and Philosopher. 1952 Nobel Peace Prize, 1875-1965)

We've Only Just Begun

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Ah! Young love -- so naive, so immature, so unsophisticated, yet ever so charming! Every generation warns the next of the heartaches and the heartbreaks that come with this love. Yet, each generation is eager to experience love. Authors have tried to express the happy occurrence we call young love.  I watched this young couple at the Getty Museum.  You could tell they were just getting to know each other, wanting to touch but not quite having the guts to try.  She, especially, was very flirty in an innocent, cute way.  I had to photograph them.  I've posted the original and then a Photoshopped version.

                  No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream

Thomas Moore

Wild Wild West

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A sand ball in one hand and a gun in the other, this little one was ready to conquer any sea creature that came his way.

I had a gun and I had to run and shoot, which is not easy. 

Jimmy Fallon

Runaway Feeling

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A photograph of my nephew, Robby, having fun in the surf.

A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching. 

Sivananda

Scream and Shout

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There's nothing like spending a July afternoon on an inner tube on a Colorado river! Ahh, the exciting days of summer.

"Swift or smooth, broad as the Hudson or narrow enough to scrape your gunwales, every river is a world of its own, unique in pattern and personality.  Each mile on a river will take you further from home than a hundred miles on a road." 

Bob Marshall