Sketchbook  Photographs by A. D. Winans, US     6

 

A Photo Essay

 

The Nuns

 

Betty Kaplan, US we play the part but what is greater love than that of a nun

 

 

Haiku Karina Klesko, US to all the soldiers posing as Carmelites lilies covered with ashes

 

 

Gerry Bravi, CA Thinking Thought, singular, reclusive, perhaps original or maybe just fashionable. Active deconstruction of the past while appending the present so as to amend the future. Mind, laboring in peaceful stillness, conversing with itself. Engaged in visceral debates it attempts to shed light on truth or bolster a hope. Ruminations, internal, silent, are they beginnings or just ends? Is there an option or does a mind instinctively feel the need to reveal? Convictions, dormant in the shadow world of the mind. Silent utterances confined to the intellect, eclipsed by our need for cultural fit. Post-modern, consumerism as thought, no longer personally understood. Free floating phenomena passing for ideas; thinking trivialized into daily gossip passed over the back fences of TV monitors. Ideas, fabricated clichés pared and shaped to fit. Thirty-second sound bites altered and amended to meet our momentary needs. Thought, the forbidden fruit. Cast out of the Garden for the temerity of thinking. Frightened, we again cast it from out lives. A risk not worth the taking and far too time consuming. Curiosity, natural, innate, waiting to be rediscovered, invited or disregarded. Thought, not always apparent, but always there even if only a memory waiting to be summoned.

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