Back in 2024 I stepped off uneven pavement covered in snow and broke my right ankle. I spent the next three months as a passenger while going to town. Every trip to town was an opportunity to take photos. Every trip I took my Canon Powershot G15, excited to see what I might find as a passenger instead of a driver. They started off blurry and most of the time I was just snapping away to see what I could get. Over time I became a bit better at timing and when I snapped the shutter. A little bit better at framing. A little bit better at paying attention. Over the next few months, I’ll be posting some of these photos as The Passenger Series.
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“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” – Goethe
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New York City – 2011
I’ve been remembering what it felt like as a young man to live in the same town with giants. When I first arrived in New York my personal giants were a dozen or so columnists and critics and poets whose names appeared regularly in the papers. I burned with a low steady fever just because I was on the same island with Heywood Broun … Robert Benchley … Dorothy Parker … Ring Lardner …This excitation ( nearness of giants ) is a continuing thing. The city is always full of young worshipful beginners – young actors, young aspiring poets, ballerinas, painters, reporters, singers – each depending on his own brand of tonic to stay alive, each with his own stable of giants.
E.B. White – “Here Is New York“
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Marina District – San Francisco / November 2025
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Recent walks and current reads.
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San Jose, California 
San Francisco, California -
the week that was
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East Bay 2023 – Riding BART
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America Day by Day – Simone de Beauvoir ( 1954 )
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