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Photo Challenge: The Road Taken.

  Dreams are only transparent. On this routine day, let my eyes close in simple praise for ordinary moments of...
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Photo Challenge: A Good Match

A contrarian and a curmudgeon; fairy tale non-believers with parallel differences, kindly melding the gaps. Together. Separately. .... Anna Blake at Infinity...
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Photo Challenge: Against the Odds

Roused by a whisper from a lost distance, through cold glass windows in deserted basements, down wet alleys, past dumpsters...
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Photo Challenge: Shadow

I mean to blur the edge, a half-stop between dark and light, of the distance between us. He's walked on from this...
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Photo Challenge: Solitude

    Out on the fringe of wrong, and late, and forgotten, and just not being a match, hold and...
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Photo Challenge: Repurpose

All of us here, we used to be someone else. We each had a plan; it was meant to go...
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Photo Challenge: Grace-ful

It's an intimate moment, a recognition of soul, held and acknowledged, then returned in kind. Softly now, abide. .... Anna Blake at...
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Photo Challenge: Ambience

It’s the pastel light, the thin clear air, and a shared breath so deep and sweet: Even as I travel...
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Photo Challenge: Names

Hold clean intention in the word chosen to label a life given to your care; words are prayers that illuminate...
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Photo Challenge: Resilient

This out-flat prairie, sun burned and wind-scraped, spends winter draped in the dull range of color called earth tones; upscale...
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Photo Challenge: Path

when it all looks obscure she leads not lost not found but traveling beyond the map so follow close your...
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Photo Challenge: Anticipation

Long shadows at noon, cramped days slip to bitter nights this dark solstice. Waiting for new light a minute at a time....
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Photo Challenge: New Horizon

inconvenience be damned the next improbable howl of resilience is just beyond the word yes so just yes ... Anna...
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Photo Challenge: Relax

Memoir Babies not embraced turn into sullen kids not good enough, graduating to insecure young adults, lost in bad decisions...
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Photo Challenge: It’s Not This Time of Year Without…

  bucking tradition: when seasonal words don't fit when obligation overwhelms desire when some mourn or have none or do not when the...
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Photo Challenge: Tiny

Feel that tiny instant just after the thrust, the silence of soaring with hooves thundering down below. The push of...
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Photo Challenge: Chaos

There's a kind of grace in the slippery unbalance of chaos when I remember it's only the rear entrance of...
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Photo Challenge: Transmogrify

Time and shadow blurred our edges until we became each other in a shared breath never fully exhaled. Anna Blake...
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