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POTD: Every Day’s a New Day

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Every Day’s a New Day
Bozeman, Montana
2026

We’ve been living in this house most of the year for the last 12 years and the other day was the first time I noticed this abstract shadow pattern on the stairs when just the light at the top of the stairs was turned on at night. I guess sometimes you just have to be in the right frame of mind before you can appreciate what’s around you from an artistic standpoint.

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POTD: Democracy Chained

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Democracy Chained
Wichita, Kansas
2003

This image actually appeared as a POTD back in it’s early days in 2003 when but a handful of people had access to it. I repeated it as a POTD in 2010 with the following comment:

“[This image] has been coming to mind lately as I read about all the efforts to stifle voting in the upcoming national election. Voting rights are or should be sacred in this country and what is happening right now is a scary omen of what may be to come. Folks, this is no way to run a democracy!” (Little did I know how true that statement was to become the following January.)

Now some six years later, this image again comes to mind as the country faces not only a renewed assault on voting rights, but also a whole host of other attacks on the ideas and principles expressed in the Declaration of Independence 250 years ago. As a consequence I’m am truly ambivalent about whether or not celebrating this milestone for the country is what I want to do. Certainly what I said back in 2010 holds even more true today and is worth repeating. Folks, this is no way to run a democracy!

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POTD: Nature’s Ensō

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Nature’s Ensō
Stillwater River, Montana
2026

Per Wikipedia: In Zen art, an ensō (円相; “circular form”) is a circle hand-drawn in one or two uninhibited brushstrokes to express the Zen mind, which is associated with enlightenment, emptiness, freedom, and the state of no-mind.

Flanked by two simple patches of flowers, perhaps this is an example of Mother Nature engaging in Zen practices.

 

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