Saw the web. Switched to Macro. Had the Greg Williams setting on my new camera. Then I walked into the web.
Category: photography
Power Ball Dream
Not sure why I buy these, but I can always dream. Just like to get my money back. Well, at least some of the money goes to fund education, though in Florida, where there is censorship and altered history (slaughter of native americans by Trumps favorite president – andy jackson), education and vaccines are not appreciated.
Lorin Duckman’s Legs
So, I have a blood cancer, bad veins and circulation, spinal stenosis and who knows what. Memory not what it was (good for me, because there is so much to forget. I have ankles.
Just a Tree
Well, it can never be just a tree, because no two are alike and there is nothing like a tree. Just ask Joyce Kilmer.
Was A Farm
In 2015, we continued our escape. Moved to Florida where Jews used to go to die. Bought a condo in West Boynton Beach, a place not near a beach. Situated in an Agricultural Reserve, restaurants, grocery stores and a movie theatre were a straight line’s drive away. Buses drove farmworkers to the fields. Today, no farm workers and no farms. The absence of the former is unrelated to the latter.
Standing Time’s Test
Still alive and cooking. Avoiding boiling water and oil. Having fun. Enjoying life.
Iguana Prowl
Looks prehistoric. Invasive species. Not a friend of mine or nature. Need a license to shoot them. Not my job. I just walked by.
Lorin Duckman at 78
So, I made it. A year ago, I sat in a hospital bed, didn’t know if it was my birthday or death day. Have regained my spirit, if not my endurance, memory and flexibility. Blood perfect for CLL/lymphoma, but not for humans with good blood. Hard not to reflect on my failed existence. I’ll pass.
Still have Sharon, a few friends and a passion for photographic art.
OBSERVER
You have an ability to fly. Try it. Imagine what you would see. Fly over some plants. Go places you have not been. Learn to look.
My Dad Fought
“Six hundred fifty-five thousand Americans died in combat in the Civil War. At the time, the population of the United States was about 32 million. That means one in fifty Americans died between 1860-65—two percent of the total population. There are ten times the number of people living in the U.S. today, so that death toll would be equivalent to 6,550,000 dead in 2023. Everyone was affected by the Civil War. Everyone had loved ones who died. Everyone—in the North as well as the South….”
Major Leonard Duckman didn’t die in the war, well, he lost his mind, hair, teeth and changed (according to biased accounts), but he just may well have. He had leukemia which was probably from some agent something which they sprayed on the trees in New Guinea when they weren’t shooting up the place or bombing it. I didn’t really know him. He was always tired or in pain or under some spell. Smart. Handsome. Would have had a great legal career. Deserved better.
