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Estranged

Small courtyard in Flanders — Albert Baertsoen (1866–1922) — public domain walking these narrow streets of cobblestone testimony I should...

Why Wait?

why wait for opportunity to knock when you know it has neither hand nor finger why wait for fate to find you when you know it’s blind...

Arctic Dance

photo by author © midnight and to the north a dogged sun still burns loath to shed her blazing harness and to the south a pale and...

Days of Single

Pieter Brueghel the Elder (1526/1530–1569) Children's Games (detail) - public domain those were the days of single a single car a single...

Tonight, I'll Seek No Sleep

Mother and Child Sleeping — Eugène Carrière (1849–1906) tonight I’ll seek no sleep because to lie with you is dream enough as your...

A Lifetime Spent

photo by author © spent a lifetime climbing summits taking risks the mountain unforgiving yet failed to touch the stars but that’s...

“TRULY! — TROLLA! — TROLLO!”

Játszó gyermekek — Children playing - Árpád Cserépy (1859–1907) — public domain “TRULY! — TROLLA! — TROLLO!” I watch my children play...

Grey and gently lined

forgive me but these photographs of earlier days only capture a passing reality as day by day I lived with you and never noticed change...

Surrender to a ruin

The farmhouse I pass by the side of this godforsaken mountain road is a ruin, a shell, long abandoned, empty of humanity. Still, you’re...

The thing about stone – Part 2 – Hammers

Watching my father and his men ply their craft, I figured I knew a thing or two about dressing stones. But there’s ‘watching’, and then...

Dust and Diamonds

I must’ve been about eight when I popped the fateful question “Mommy? Are we rich?” My mother turned from the stove, wooden spoon in...

Thief

Unlike my native Flemish, in which you’re simply called a tombstone maker, the English language offers two grand words to describe my...

This Hallowed Ground

To this day, whatever part of the world I’m in, I still can’t walk past a graveyard without some pause, without at least a furtive glance...

Darwin for toddlers

Growing up, every child gets to hear these stories, of cats pouncing on mice, dogs chasing cats, then comes the wolf, and so on. Stories...

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