You raze the old to raise the new.
–Justina Chen, North of Beautiful
Below is the original photo used to create this image. It’s water flowing along the sidewalk into a storm drain. This was taken in 2016 on a bright fall afternoon, no special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my Kodak Share digital camera.
But there’s a beginning in an end, you know? It’s true that you can’t reclaim what you had, but you can lock it up behind you. Start fresh.
–Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds
Below is the original photo used to create this image. It’s my car’s engine, no special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.
How often when we are comfortable, we begin to long for something new!
–Jacob Grimm
Below is the original photo used to create this image. It’s of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, taken from my hotel window in December, 2017 while visiting family before Christmas. No special lighting or effects, just a snap from my smart phone.
There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.
–John Steinbeck
Below is the original photo used to create this image. All I can say, is sometimes you have to look down to see a rainbow.. I caught this oil-slick rainbow at dusk after a rain just outside my office building with no special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.
We all want to break our orbits, float like a satellite gone wild in space, run the risk of disintegration. We all want to take our lives in our own hands and hurl them out among the stars.
–David Bottoms
Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is an image from Pixabay.
Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
Below is the original photo used to create this image. This one came out of the archive. It’s a stormy Atlantic Ocean from a trip to Nags Head, North Carolina in the late 90’s. I had one of those awesome film cameras that took panoramic shots. Film negative saved to CD.
Sometimes a flame must level a forest to ash before new growth can begin. I believe Wonderland needed a scouring.
—A.G. Howard, Splintered
Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is an image from Pixabay.
To be judged of what you were is just as unfair as a butterfly being judged while it was a caterpillar
–Hlovate, Anthem
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True education is a kind of never ending story — a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.
–J.R.R. Tolkien
Below is the original photo used to create this image. It’s a bush from the front of my house that has its winter berries going on. Taken on an bright morning with no special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.
But there’s no such thing as a completely fresh start. Everything new arrives on the heels of something old, and every beginning comes at the cost of an ending.
–Jennifer E. Smith, The Geography of You and Me
Below is the original photo used to create this image. It’s a gorgeous sunset taken outside of Mesa, Arizona in November, 2008 at my grandparents’ 50th anniversary party. If you look closely, you can make out saguaro cacti. A simple snap from my Kodak Share camera.
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