That Can’t be Safe

Posted on November 21, 2013 by Bill Chance

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin

Dallas Skyline at Night

Posted on April 5, 2013 by Bill Chance

You can’t take a photograph of a city at night. The eyes see things the lens never dreams about.

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
—-Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora

(click for a larger version on Flickr)

“I love the silent hour of night, for blissful dreams may then arise, revealing to my charmed sight what may not bless my waking eyes.”
― Anne Brontë, Best Poems of the Brontë Sisters

I woke last night to the sound of thunder
How far off I sat and wondered
Started humming a song from 1962
Ain’t it funny how the night moves
When you just don’t seem to have as much to lose
Strange how the night moves
With autumn closing in
—-Bob Seger, Night Moves

A Bench for the Future

Posted on March 13, 2013 by Bill Chance

Lafayette Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans

Lizard of Death

Posted on February 16, 2013 by Bill Chance

I am the lizard king. I can do anything.
—- Jim Morrison

Lafayette Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans

“At noon in the desert a panting lizard
waited for history, its elbows tense,
watching the curve of a particular road
as if something might happen.”
—-William Stafford