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Musically driven wine shop near my new digs on 96th and Madison… the universe led me to this perfect little store after a minute of self reflection and gratitude, thank you universe.
Photo captured a few miles east of the city of Arcata on California Highway 299. Humboldt County. Late November 2012.
Photo captured along the beach at Dry Lagoon. Humboldt Lagoons State Park. Humboldt County. Early May 2013.
We humans have this unique ability to reflect upon our own psyches. This is our strength, as well as the source of our problems.
Visual riffs:
Photo of the King Range captured along the Lost Coast via Mattole Road. Humboldt County. Late May 2013.
Photo captured at a cattle ranch near the Lost Coast via Mattole Road. Humboldt County. Late May 2013.
Photo captured at a cattle ranch near the Lost Coast via Mattole Road. Humboldt County. Late May 2013.
Can you see me? This is the gift shop of the Jean Bonnet Tavern in Bedford Pennsylvania. What a lovely little shop it was.
Photo captured from the Vista Point on U.S. Highway 101 in McKinleyville. Humboldt County. Late January 2013.
FGR invades Self-Reflection
Hummels. They belonged to my mom. Not really my style; but I keep them for sentimental reasons.
Photo captured while driving towards U.S. Highway 101, near post-mile marker 85.40 on Highway 1, the Shoreline Highway, near Leggett. Mendocino County. Late March 2013.
Photo of the Golden Gate Bridge captured from the Marin Headlands in Marin County. Bay Area. Early December 2012.
Photo captured alongside the Redwood Highway, U.S. 101, a few miles north of the town of Orick. Humboldt County. Late May 2012.
Photo captured just north of the Freshwater Lagoon alongside U.S. Highway 101, the Redwood Highway. Humboldt County. Early May 2013.
Photo captured along the beach at Ma-Le'L Dunes in the census-designated place of Manila. Humboldt County. Late May 2013.
Photo captured via Nikon 50mm f/1.8 D AF Nikkor lens on the Big Lagoon Bridge on U.S. Highway 101, the Redwood Highway, in the census-designated place of Big Lagoon. Humboldt County. Late October 2013.
Photo of the mouth of the Klamath River captured from Del Norte County Road D8 in the town of Klamath. Del Norte County. Early March 2013.
Photo captured near the Grass Lake Summit via U.S. Highway 97. Siskiyou County. "State of Jefferson." On the first day of January 2013.
To read the original blog post: kneverkneverland.com/2013/01/12/the-ghost-with-no-haunt/
On the stage, I step from behind the curtain and pray until its over.
After, I feel the tickle of a whisper coming from those behind my back.
Feels like being trapped under the ice of a frozen pond.
They are standing on the icy surface, looking down and laughing.
My muscles clenched in cold and searing pain of suffocation.
This myth is what keeps my mind in its place.
In truth, No one wastes a whisper on me.
I am a ghost who has lost its haunt.
A thought that might have formed.
If only I could shed the layers of swaddling cloths.
And withstand the beating into uncertain unconsciousness.
Then, I might emerge from the icy waters as,
Someone.
But, I have tasted the safety of the genie.
And I have acquired a mountain of tools to hide behind.
The more of them I have, the closer I think I am to being me.
They will fly me out on their wings into the world and drop me gently on a pile of pillows.
But truth points out that I have traveled no further on this map of lies.
I am the cowardly explorer with no compass.
The thought that never formed.
The ghost with no haunt.
Photo of the rugged Santa Lucia Mountains captured alongside the El Sur Ranch on the Old Coast Road in Big Sur. Monterey County. Mid April 2013.
Photo of Mount Shasta captured from the Shasta Valley Vista Point on Interstate 5. North of Yreka in Siskiyou County. Early January 2013.
Photo of Steamboat Rock captured along the Lost Coast via Mattole Road. Humboldt County. Late May 2013.
The image for this postcard comes from a modified screen capture from a trailer for the TV show "Orange Is the New Black."
Photo captured near the Modoc National Forest on Highway 139 in Modoc County. "State of Jefferson." Late February 2013.
Photo looking towards the King Range captured along the Lost Coast via Mattole Road. Humboldt County. Late May 2013.
"I must. I want you to explain to me why you won't exhibit Dorian
Gray's picture. I want the real reason."
"I told you the real reason."
"No, you did not. You said it was because there was too much of yourself in it. Now, that is childish."
"Harry," said Basil Hallward, looking him straight in the face, "every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the colored canvas, reveals himself. The reason I will not exhibit this picture is that I am afraid that I have shown with it the secret of my own soul."
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray