water drops

…the clearing in the still center of becoming, the track on which the centered person moves – it whispers, “Realize me.”  But no sooner is it glimpsed than it is gone.

~Stephen  Bachelor

reflections

…instead of a coherent personality that stretches back in an unbroken line to a first memory and looks forward to an indefinite future, we discover a self ridden with gaps and ambiguities.  Who “I am” appears coherent only because of the monologue we keep repeating, editing, censoring, and embellishing in our heads.

the remembered present

Perception is never purely in the present – it has to draw on experiences of the past; … ‘the remembered present.’ We all have detailed memories of how things have previously looked and sounded, and these memories are recalled and admixed with every new perception.

~Musicophilia

Oliver Sacks

 

engrossed

pursued by relentless and insistent desires

cee’s black & white photo challenge: isolated subjects

a solitary leaf

spectators

“… the present situation [is] the fruition of former choices…engage it as the arena for what is to come. …embrace the ambiguity of a present that is simultaneously tied to an irrevocable past and free for an undetermined future.*

*cited:

Buddhism without Beliefs

Stephen Batchelor

pg. 47

black & white sunday: after and before

After

Before

submitted in response to Lost in Translation’s black and white challenge.

tour de fat

street photography assignment: ask for permission to take photo

black & white sunday: portrait

Street portraiture submitted to Lost in Translation’s photo challenge

weekly photo challenge: mirror

This image is submitted in response to Jen’s photo challenge:  Mirror