Three Poems to End the Year
Reflections on literature and photography, with links to portfolios on Greece, Toronto, and the US. Oh, and three poems, to round off the year.
Have Camera, Will Travel
A Readers Digest update, in words and pictures, on August travels and travel plans for September - Athens and the Cycladic islands of Sifnos and Serifos, dear friends!
To Know a Place
My English teacher, Jennifer Lloyd, gave me a copy of T.S. Eliot’s Collected Poems 1909 - 1962 as a gift when I left school, with the inscription, “May this book be a source of inspiration and pleasure to you in your ‘exploration.’” At the top of the page she had written, in her beautiful handwriting, this excerpt from Eliot’s Little Gidding. I have the book still, minus its dust-jacket. The spine is cracked, the blue cover is faded, the edges are worn. But the words are still alive on the page.
And there has been a certain amount of exploration, if truth be told, over these past two months, of the mental and affective as well as the physical kind, quite apart from all the exploring (and getting lost) that has happened over a lifetime….
All this travel - time travel, thought travel, air travel - makes me think about place - what a place is, and what it means to know a place.
Havana Reconsidered
Revisiting the photographs from this trip, almost eight years later, I see that my eye and my camera saw much more, and with more empathy and curiosity, than my more critical and judgmental mind did at the time. The photographs in this series, then, are a reconsideration, both aesthetically and imaginatively, of my earlier portfolio and of our Havana visit.
Summer of ‘23
Summer’s here, in the northern hemisphere, and so is my June blog, with links and images from my latest collections of photographs, Rob’s collages, and musings about being alive.