Earth Jazz

“The earth has its music for those who will listen” -- Reginald Vincent Holmes, Fireside Fancies 

"...And now he's gone back up to space Where he won't have a hassle with the human race..."

"...Rapture, be pure
Take a tour, through the sewer
Don't strain your brain, paint a train
You'll be singin' in the rain
I said don't stop, to punk rock

Well now you see what you wanna be
Just have your party on TV
'Cause the man from Mars won't eat up bars when the TV's on
And now he's gone back up to space
Where he won't have a hassle with the human race
And you hip-hop, and you don't stop
Just blast off, sure shot
'Cause the man from Mars stopped eatin' cars and eatin' bars
And now he only eats guitars, get up!"

--Rapture by Blondie

Original unprocessed photo can be seen here.

Open wound

"Does the open wound in another's breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which is welling from another man's side staunch that which is pouring from our own? Does the general anguish of our fellow creatures lessen our own private and particular anguish? No, no, each suffers on his own account, each struggles with his own grief, each sheds his own tears.”
 ― Alexandre Dumas, The Man in the Iron Mask

"Climbing the last light..."*

*"Look! Look! he is climbing the last light Who knows neither Time nor error, and under Whose eye, unforgiving, the world, unforgiven, swings Into shadow." –from "Evening Hawk" by Robert Penn Warren