Muttering Retreats
Trouvailles and Memoires from wanderings past, present, and future
Memoires
Travel trouvailles, travelogues, and photography from my various wanderings. All stories are true as I (and my occasional guests) remember them.
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Photography
Experiments in light, shadow, and street photography. Includes the occasional narrative about seeing the world through the perspective of the lens.
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Musings
Poetry, philosophical rambling, and other contemplations. Every blogger needs an “it’s my blog and I’ll write what I want to” category, and this is mine.
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Aspirations
I breathe in to start to speak the wordsthat will illustrate all the depthand all the reach of what I feel and seeand hope and wishof where we’ve been and where we are going And then I freezebreath heldeyes blurredwords locked Because I am breathing inall your hope and all your feelingsand your wishes AndContinue reading “Aspirations”
Jarmusch Junkies (Memphis, TN)
Bizarre things happen late at night. When you’re just walking around aimlessly, not really trying to get anywhere except away from drunken crowds. When you’ve just spent the past three days quoting from your favorite film set in Memphis, Mystery Train by Jim Jarmusch, and have forgotten to even look for the sites that wereContinue reading “Jarmusch Junkies (Memphis, TN)”
Coffins and Keyholes (Pompeii, Italy)
I wasthe girl of the chain letter,the girl full of talk of coffins and keyholes,the one of the telephone bills,the wrinkled photo and the lost connections. Anne Sexton When I was in middle school, one of my favorite things to do during breaks and the lunch hour was to walk around and ask people pseudo-psychologicalContinue reading “Coffins and Keyholes (Pompeii, Italy)”
Bridging the Gap (Memphis, TN)
These days, it’s hard for me to consider a photo shoot complete without indulging my lines, light, and shadow obsession. Sometimes that requires an impractical amount of intentional wandering, at just the right time of day to try to catch the sun falling in just the right direction behind bizarre ordinary objects (benches are myContinue reading “Bridging the Gap (Memphis, TN)”
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