Photos by 
David L. Goldin © 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010

Each day you choose from an unimaginable number of different images.  Here are a few more.

 

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Los Angeles Olympics1984

 

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flowers, plants & trees

 

Finest City Home Aerial Views Balboa Park Cabrillo Monument / Rosecrans Cemetery Coronado Del Mar Downtown Downtown Views East County Embarcadero La Jolla Little Italy/Hillcrest Miramar Mission Bay/Clairemont Mission Valley Area North County Ocean Beach Petco Park Point Loma San Diego Bay SeaWorld/Fiesta Is. South Bay / Border Sunset Cliffs Tijuana/Baja Zoo/Animal Park Selected Slideshows

 

 

 

Choose Selected Slideshows for a listing of slideshows.

 

Most photos are only available on slideshows.

 

 

 

Slideshows in progress: 

 

parenting  and  photo of photos

and colors-San Diego 1 and colors-San Diego 2 and  colors-NYC and colors-elsewhere

  and exercise & activity-1 and exercise & activity-2 and activity & exercise-1 and activity & exercise-2

 

Recent slideshows:

 

Coronado Bay 01-02-10 & Sunset Cliffs 02-14-10

 

 

 

"Imagine a world in which there is no time.  Only images."
(Alan Lightman, "Einstein's Dreams")

 

 

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"To take a photograph is to participate in another person's (or thing's) mortality, vulnerability, mutability.

Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt. . . ."

(Susan Sontag, "On Photography")

 

 

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"Persistence of Memory"

 

(Salvador Dali)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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"Was something brushed across my mind

That no one on earth will ever find?

 

Heaven gives its glimpses only to those 

 Not in a position to look too close."

(Robert Frost, "A Passing Glimpse")

 

 

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"Choices are not magic. . . .  Our brains and the experiences they harbor generate our choices. . . .

The sneaky secret about choice is that it's not about choice at all--it's about value."

(Read Montague, "Why Choose This Book?")

 

 

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"Everything has been thought of before; the task is to think of it again."

(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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BURNT NORTON
(No. 1 of 'Four Quartets')

Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.
What might have been is an abstraction
Remaining a perpetual possibility
Only in a world of speculation.
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden. My words echo
Thus, in your mind. . . .
     (T.S. Eliot)   

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"We all live in the same time forever. There is no future and there is no past."

(George Balanchine)

 

 

 

Birds of a feather flock together.

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(from mid-16th century English proverb)

 

 

 

yes we can

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Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chilliest land
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.

(Emily Dickenson, 1830-1886)

 

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The Sea

The ocean is outside my window and in my soul.

It speaks to me in pounding waves of sound.

It fills my senses with colors and smells of salt and life.

I am always oriented toward it.

West is home.

I rejoice in the sight of soaring pelicans, seagulls, and cormorants.

I am lifted by the sight of a heron in flight or in the trees in my alley.

What pleasure to hear a seal, see a spout from a whale heading south, or

the occasional gift of a dolphin's fin, surfacing and disappearing.

A foghorn at night, the helicopters along the shore, the fast and dark sound of a smuggler's boat--all interest and excite me.

The sea is part of my life's experiences--as a child in the sand, a young girl

at the beach, a woman seeing infinity.

Life came from its waters--ever present, ever changing, forever in me.

(Connie Goldin ©2010 MomtoMadre.com)

 

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It's not easy to be together until we're old.

So why not cherish it?

(Chinese poem)

 

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Of course you can love more than one person, 

but "marriage is something different.  Marriage is memory, 

marriage is time."

(Joan Didion, "The Year of Magical Thinking")

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Bernstein conducting the Boston Symphony performing 

Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony, Tanglewood, 1970.

 

(photo from New Yorker magazine)

 

"I'm no longer quite sure what the question is,

 but I do know that the answer is Yes."

(Leonard Bernstein, 1973)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Oh, Buchenwald, we neither lament, nor complain, 
and whatever our future may hold: 
we still want to say "yes" to life, 
because one day the time will come - 
then we will be free!

( Buchenwaldlied (Buchenwald Song), composed by Austrian Jewish inmates Hermann Leopoldi and Dr Fritz Löhner-Beda)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Brain--is wider than the Sky--
For--put them side by side--
The one the other will contain
With ease--and You--beside--

The Brain is deeper than the sea--
For--hold them--Blue to Blue--
The one the other will absorb--
As Sponges--Buckets--do--

The Brain is just the weight of God--
For--Heft them--Pound for Pound--
And they will differ--if they do--
As Syllable from Sound--

(Emily Dickinson, c. 1862)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Let Evening Come 
Let the light of late afternoon
shine through chinks in the barn, moving
up the bales as the sun moves down.

Let the cricket take up chafing
as a woman takes up her needles
and her yarn. Let evening come.

Let dew collect on the hoe abandoned
in long grass. Let the stars appear
and the moon disclose her silver horn.

Let the fox go back to its sandy den.
Let the wind die down. Let the shed
go black inside. Let evening come.

To the bottle in the ditch, to the scoop
in the oats, to air in the lung
let evening come.

Let it come, as it will, and don't
be afraid. God does not leave us
comfortless, so let evening come.
       (Jane Kenyon)     
 

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Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

(Dylan Thomas, 1951)

 

 

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“If it be / now, ‘tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be / now; if it be not now, yet it will come. The / readiness is all.”

(Hamlet, V ii, 234-237)

 

 

 

 

 

Paris-Art in Faces Slideshow

 

 

 

 

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Photos of Sunset Cliffs

 

 

 

Finest City Home Aerial Views Balboa Park Cabrillo Monument / Rosecrans Cemetery Coronado Del Mar Downtown Downtown Views East County Embarcadero La Jolla Little Italy/Hillcrest Miramar Mission Bay/Clairemont Mission Valley Area North County Ocean Beach Petco Park Point Loma San Diego Bay SeaWorld/Fiesta Is. South Bay / Border Sunset Cliffs Tijuana/Baja Zoo/Animal Park Selected Slideshows

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Copyright  David L. Goldin © 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009; 2010 photos taken in San Diego and other finest cities.