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David J. Clarke
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Seeking work as a Peer Bridger or 988 Support Agent. Jazz fanatic & amateur photographer. Former philosopher & logician. Disciple of Richard Rorty. Francophile. 💙🏳️‍🌈📸🎷 🇫🇷
The clearing wind had begun to blow. As the overcast was displaced with brilliance and color, as more and more light poured into the valley, the hour seemed tumultuous and exalting. Backgammon and gin.

—The Journals of John Cheever

#prose #genre #lyrical #johncheever #geoffdyer
November 23, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Zadie Smith's essay collection 'Dead and Alive' is her best yet. Open the book & receive the gifts of an imagination that radiates w boundless energy, is never dogmatic, ceaseleslly curious & always striving to understand her subject, regardless of where it leads.
#essays #film #novels #zadiesmith
November 22, 2025 at 5:11 AM
morning coffee and even better, a lasting and deep embrace.
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Un café le matin et, mieux encore, une étreinte longue et profonde.

#coffee #greeting #embrrace #smile
November 22, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Mr. Lindner? That milquetoast?
Right. Mr. Lindner, the milquetoast. So what did you think the devil would look like? If he were red with a tail, horns, and cloven hooves, any fool could say no.

—How to Read Literature Like a Professor
—Thomas C. Foster
#LorraineHansberry #Southside #Faust #Symbol
November 15, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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From his library @blu-dot.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 9:13 PM
"All of me swims, floats, crosses what exists with my nerves, I am nothing but a desire, anger, vagueness, as impalpable as energy. Energy? but where is my strength? in imprecision, in imprecision, in imprecision ..."

#ClariceLispector #Brazil #Novelist #ShortStories #Master #BeautifullyImprecise
November 13, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Robert Adams: from 'The Place We Live' collection. No words except to note photography is a medium concerned with light. Also, seeing digital versions or even books in no way prepares you for what you encounter in person.
#RobertAdams #Light #Beauty #Essays
October 22, 2025 at 7:37 AM
October 22, 2025 at 5:04 AM
My only note to the subject was 'show your true colors.'

#flora #pop #saturation #bokeh #orange #flowerphotography #bloomscrolling
October 21, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Moderate mountain view Monday in Yakima as seen from the 5th floor of the Larson building.

#mountains #blueskies #eastcoastkin #puffyclouds #alliteration #skyline #horizon #landscape #blueskyphotography
October 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Like illuminated pearls the lamps shown from the summits of their tall poles upon the living texture below which, changing shape and hue unceasingly, sent up into the warm gray evening air an unchanging unceasing murmur.
—'Two Gallants' (Dubliners)
—James Joyce

#shortstory #light #synechdoche
October 19, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Farewell to a great gato named Omar. 17 years he spent on this earth and he leaves behind a shadow of memories that will endure in all those that knew him.

His only regret in life was that he did not take more naps.
A cat must have a code.
#catphotography #whiskers #TheWire
#gato
October 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
'Lily, the caretaker's daughter, was literally run off her feet.'
—James Joyce
—'The Dead', 'Dubliners'

ChatGPT note: 'The author is confused by the term 'literally'. Proper usage would be 'figuratively'.

ChatGPT can be an idiot, but this reply makes it a special kind of idiot.

#Irony #Echos
October 18, 2025 at 12:41 AM
William, street musician, riffing on his six string while visiting the Jimi Hendrix sculpture on Capital Hill.

#streetphotography #musician #guitarplayer #blues #homage #jimihendrix #eastcoastkin #memorial #redhouse #purplehaze #sculpture #publicart
October 17, 2025 at 3:47 AM
'El Norte'
'The Way North'
Arrival to Yakima Nation
#Painting #Sovereign #Native #Indigenous #LatinX
October 16, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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