Kaleidoscope #145

by D.M. SessousJanuary 12, 2018December 31, 2017

I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end. (Jo March),
–Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

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.

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Kaleidoscope #144

by D.M. SessousJanuary 11, 2018December 31, 2017

And suddenly you know: It’s time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.
–Meister Eckhart

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.

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Kaleidoscope #143

by D.M. SessousJanuary 10, 2018December 31, 2017

As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.
–Criss Jami, Killosophy

Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is an image from Pixabay.

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Kaleidoscope #142

by D.M. SessousJanuary 9, 2018December 31, 2017

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done–then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.
–Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

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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Kaleidoscope #141

by D.M. SessousJanuary 8, 2018December 31, 2017

And I realized that there’s a big difference between deciding to leave and knowing where to go.
–Robyn Schneider, The Beginning of Everything

Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is an image from Pixabay.

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Kaleidoscope #140

by D.M. SessousJanuary 7, 2018December 31, 2017

How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
–Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers

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.

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Kaleidoscope #139

by D.M. SessousJanuary 6, 2018December 31, 2017

For last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.
— T.S. Eliot , Little Gidding

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.

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Kaleidoscope #138

by D.M. SessousJanuary 5, 2018December 31, 2017

In that book which is my memory, On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you, Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life.
–Dante Alighieri, Vita Nuova

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Kaleidoscope #137

by D.M. SessousJanuary 4, 2018December 31, 2017

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson