Peter J. Crowley

Fine Art Photographer

They’re Bombing Today

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Olympia Peace Tranquility, Beauty

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Olympia Middle America, a refuge for a shattered soul, a safe cocoon for us wrapped in freedom quietly going through life’s daily chores, work.  As I walk to the bus this morning I can hear the rumbles of War. The base 5-8 miles away they are playing/practicing War. It scares me! Then I think 5-8 miles away practice. But  in the Mideast my walk would be consumed by fear 5-8 miles could be my home soon. To live with that reality!

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But they are Bombing today.

Today I am safe practice doesn’t affect me . We the people ignore, shut out, forget. But they are bombing today.

My journal more a diary of late keeping track. No essays, poetry, politics. But they are bombing today.

Like the rest of the people politics opinions hidden except for a “like or Share” on Face Book. Petitions, polls, surveys briefly comment 140 characters or less. Then on to a joke. Hiding from reality. What would Tom Paine Do?

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But they are Bombing today.

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A Lost Boy at the Portland Or. Union Train Station

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Telling stories, creating emotions. The little boy looks across the waiting room to a grandmotherly women in line. She doesn’t know him the emotion I create here is of fear and being lost from the point of view of the boy. That is the story the emotion we have all felt at one time or another. enjoy pjc

The real story is the boy isn’t lost at all by stepping to the right I did not include his parents who were five feet to the right as their son took in the view of this magnificent old station and by composing [not cropping] the image to tell my tale, to create an emotion for you to add you story to the image.

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A part of Fragments of my life the Amtrak Travels perhaps I should list the fragments? Thank you who have been commenting here.

Memorial Day 2013

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Norwichtown Cemetery from pre-revolution to to French Troops who fought beside us in the revolution and on to now. Is that not enough? Almost 300 hundred years. Take a moment today to reflect on what Memorial day means. “But what may be needed to return the solemn, and even sacred, spirit back to Memorial Day is for a return to its traditional day of observance. Many feel that when Congress made the day into a three-day weekend in with the National Holiday Act of 1971, it made it all the easier for people to be distracted from the spirit and meaning of the day. As the VFW stated in its 2002 Memorial Day address: “Changing the date merely to create three-day weekends has undermined the very meaning of the day. No doubt, this has contributed greatly to the general public’s nonchalant observance of Memorial Day.” from Memorial Day History. Have a listen to Bobby Darin’s “Simple Song of Freedom” I like Tim Hardin’s version better. peace pjc

Take a moment, say a pray, support the troops bring them home.

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