If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character…Would you slow down? Or speed up?
–Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
Below is the original photo used to create this image. It’s a bouquet of silk flowers on my dining room table using the curtain as a drape. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.
The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.
–Friedrich Nietzsche
Below is the original photo used to create this image. It’s a lichen and moss covered tree trunk and exposed roots from my backyard. Taken on an overcast day with no special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
–Barack Obama
Below is the original photo used to create this image. These black-eyed susans were on display outside my local grocery store. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.
Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.
–Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid
Below is the original photo used to create this image. These lovelies were arrangements in planters at a local outdoor mall. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.
People change and forget to tell each other.
–Lillian Hellman
Below is the original photo used to create this image. These sunflowers were on display in front of my local grocery store. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.
I don’t know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.
–Nicholas Sparks
Below is the original photo used to create this image. These orange flowers are part of the landscaping in front of my office building. Since they’re small, I had to get in super close. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.
None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.
–Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
Below is the original photo used to create this image. It’s a bouquet of silk flowers on my dining room table using the curtain as a drape. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
–Jalaluddin Rumi
Below is the original photo used to create this image. It’s the big blue sky pic I took on a summer trip to Illinois. No special lighting or retouching, simply a snap from my smart phone. Yes, the sky really was that blue…
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
–Lao Tzu
Below is the original photo used to create this image. It’s a maple sapling growing between stone pavers in my backyard. Taken on an overcast day with no special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
–Albert Einstein
Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is an image from Pixabay and I originally used it to create “Clay Butterfly” that was published on 8/21/2017. Side note, this is actually the first image I used when practicing with kaleidoscopes in Photoshop.
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