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The first daisy.
Incredibly small. But the first one I’ve seen this year. Here it is poking out from the grass.
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Jewel.
Something unique I found in a mall. But not just the jewellery, but the hand that holds it. What an inhuman way to hold something, but also kind of symbolic.
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I don’t know.
I really don’t know how I got here. Or even where this is. Or why I took this picture. I’m baffled.
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Remnant of an evergreen.
Just a little speck from a tree that I found on concrete while out on a walk at night. That one little piece of a tree, tiny.
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Two apartment buildings.
More are coming. Towers of glass. Because that’s what Vancouver does.
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Life from dirt.
That’s always been the amazing thing about plants. They just need dirt, sun, and water.
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Paint on a tree.
I think this was here for some construction marking. But it also made good abstract art.
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Keep telling myself to pick up my guitar.
It just sits there, looking at me, asking why I don’t blare a power chord. And it’s been years since I gave it an attempt.
I do, though, have an acoustic bass right by my bed. Sometimes I play a few licks. And that’s fun.
But I really should start writing songs again.
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The past is the past, and we can't have it back.
More to the point, however you feel about the present -- whether good or bad -- we wouldn't have what we have now without the past. Whatever else you might say, the past is the reason we are here.
I know the past was far from perfect. The so-called "good old days" were not good. And yet, I mourn what we lost.
I was there, at my friend's house, playing his Super Nintendo on a TV -- what we called a TV, because back then, we didn't call them CRTs. And those cartridges, those 16-bit cartridges -- at the time, they felt like the future. We didn't think about the broader world, its consequences, or what might come later. We were full of optimism, convinced that things could only get better from here.
It's not that time itself that I miss. Truth be told, my life back then was pretty miserable.
But what I do miss are the visions of a radiant future.
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We’ve seen better days.
Overripe banana I found at a grocery store about to be put out to pasture. This is the end.
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