Tag Archives: water

If You Don’t Die Of Thirst

Posted on by Bill Chance

If you don’t die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.
—-Anne Lamott

Pioneer PLaza Dallas, Texas

Pioneer Plaza
Dallas, Texas

So many people visit and take photos of the bronze cattle drive in Pioneer Plaza. It’s a challenge to find something ten thousand tourists haven’t shot on their phones before.

(click for full size on flickr)

Tongue-Tied and Twisted

Posted on by Bill Chance

Into the distance, a ribbon of black
Stretched to the point of no turning back
A flight of fancy on a windswept field
Standing alone my senses reeled
A fatal attraction is holding me fast,
How can I escape this irresistible grasp?

Can’t keep my eyes from the circling sky
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
—-Learning to Fly, Pink Floyd

Pocket Park Downtown Dallas, Texas

Pocket Park
Downtown
Dallas, Texas

The Hope of Being Seen

Posted on by Bill Chance

“Most people would trade everything they know, everyone they know- they’d trade it all to know they’ve been seen, and acknowledged, that they might even be remembered. We all know the world is too big for us to be significant. So all we have is the hope of being seen, or heard, even for a moment.”
― Dave Eggers, The Circle

University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas

University of Texas at Dallas,
Richardson, Texas

The Voice of Perpetual Becoming

Posted on by Bill Chance

“They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

One Dallas Cener Downtown Dallas, Texas

One Dallas Cener
Downtown Dallas, Texas

Paltry As Those Lives Are

Posted on by Bill Chance

“The spider Mercer gave the chickenhead, Isidore; it probably was artificial, too. But it doesn’t matter. The electric things have their lives, too. Paltry as those lives are.”
― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Manmade Stream and Naturemade agave plants Downtown Dallas, Texas

Manmade Stream and Naturemade agave plants
Downtown Dallas, Texas

On the Foam of the Sea

Posted on by Bill Chance

I would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea!
We tire of the flame of the meteor, before it can fade and flee;
And the flame of the blue star of twilight, hung low on the rim of the sky,
Has awakened in our hearts, my beloved, a sadness that may not die.
—-W.B. Yeats, The White Birds

Foam on a small fountain, Street Corner, Arts District Dallas, Texas

Foam on a small fountain,
Street Corner,
Arts District
Dallas, Texas

Dancers In the Strobe-Lit Dark

Posted on by Bill Chance

“Empires die, like all of us dancers in the strobe-lit dark. See how the light needs shadows.”
― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

Dallas Arts District Dallas, Texas

Dallas Arts District
Dallas, Texas

Beauty in Our Time

Posted on by Bill Chance

There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
—-Tadao Ando

(click to enlarge) Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth Tadao Ando, Architect

(click to enlarge)
Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth
Tadao Ando, Architect

Not the Shadow of the Past

Posted on by Bill Chance

“Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?” That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

High Water, Dallas, Texas

High Water,
Dallas, Texas

Texas Flood

Posted on by Bill Chance

Well there’s floodin’ down in Texas
All of the telephone lines are down
Well there’s floodin’ down in Texas
All of the telephone lines are down
And I’ve been tryin’ to call my baby
Lord and I can’t get a single sound

Well dark clouds are rollin’ in
Man I’m standin’ out in the rain
Well dark clouds are rollin’ in
Man I’m standin’ out in the rain
Yeah flood water keep a rollin’
Man it’s about to drive poor me insane
—-Texas Flood, Stevie Ray Vaughn

Trinity River, Dallas, Texas

Trinity River,
Dallas, Texas