A solitude ten thousand fathoms deep
Sustains the bed on which we lie, my dear:
Although I love you, you will have to leap;
Our dream of safety has to disappear.
— from W. H. Auden’s “Leap Before You Look”
Photo credit: ” Cliff in the Moonlight,” Rufin Sudkovsky, 1880
Source: Old Toronto Series on Facebook
I am feeling grateful today to all the veterans who served their country at the highest level. Thank you.
The Piker Press today featured what might be my favorite photo of mine — a shot of a mid-afternoon Northen Virginia neighborhood that was suddenly and virtually eclipsed by heavy clouds racing over the area.
It was one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen, and I happened to be there at just the right time. You can see the photo right here.
Thanks, as always, to Managing Editor Sand Pilarski for allowing me to be a part of the creative community of The Piker Press!
Oil on canvas.
Libertarian friend: “There is another option! Chase Oliver! He’s on the ballot!”
Me: “I would Chase Oliver but I wouldn’t know what to do if I caught him.”
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Platinum print.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 