A little bit farther on the land of fairy ended. The boundary was marked by the end of the shadow. We wanted to stay in fairy, to play further among the elves, but we knew that time flowed differently there, and that the gate keepers would soon return.
1/1/17
© words and pictures by Dan DeMarle 2017
People marched all over the world today for 1000s if not millions of reasons. At the end of the day, I believe the main reasons were unity, cohesion, and speaking in a million tongues about their right to be seen and heard.
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Shots taken from within Wesleyen Chapel where the First Women’s Rights Convention was held on 7/19 and 20/1848. In these pictures surrounded by thousands of women and men there to march in protest of the inauguration of President Donald Trump.
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““It’s as if…” The man paused, seeming to search his mind for the right words of description. “It’s like going downhill through deep snow on a sled,” he said, finally. “At first it’s exhilarating: the speed; the sharp, clear air; but then the snow accumulates, builds up on the runners, and you slow, you have to push hard to keep going and –” The Giver by Lois Lowry
12/31/16
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That is not paint. Its a different layer of rock in what makes up Rochester Geology. If you notice, it is bookended by different layers. There are many messages here. One is that these rocks have been here for probably millions of years. They have been there through the Iroquois Nation, and for all of the History of this country. The sun will rise, the sun will set, and these rocks will still be there. Summer can come and winter can come, and they will be there. The second is do you see that layer of rock as the Obama presidency or as the Trump presidency. If you see it as the Trump presidency then the question is what are you going to do, to make it only last for 4 years. At the end of 4 years the next president can take steps to put back in place the Obama policies you liked. If you see it as the Obama presidency then you are already on the way to making it so. If you see it as the Trump presidency then, other than posting on Facebook, ask yourself, what am I doing tomorrow to make this a reality. Then start doing it.
12/16/16
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“She had never known that ice could take on so many shades of blue: sharp lines of indigo like the deepest sea, aquamarine shadows, even the glint of blue-green where the sun struck just so.”
― Malinda Lo, Huntress
12/27/16
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“You have to cross many bridges and you have to walk many paths in your life! But what is more important than this is to know which bridges you should not cross and which paths you must not walk!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan
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“Paths are the habits of a landscape. They are acts of consensual making. It’s hard to create a footpath on your own…Paths connect. This is their first duty and their chief reason for being. They relate places in a literal sense, and by extension they relate people.
Paths are consensual, too, because without common care and common practice they disappear: overgrown by vegetation, ploughed up or built over (through they may persist in the memorious substance of land law). Like sea channels that require regular dredging to stay open, paths NEED walking.”
― Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
11/20/16
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I was on my way to the post office, to mail out some cards and birthday presents. My friend asked me, why do you take your time doing that, when you often don’t ever get anything back. I thought about it, and said that somewhere in my life, I had figured out that Love is not about what you get from others, its about you – what you do and what you give.
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