Author: L.E. Hansen

we were all part of it once

church

This abandoned church has been left mostly unharmed; its place is held secret so that others do not come to damage it. We must secure those things we love today behind closed doors, in secret hiding places. To keep the dream from the nightmare. What is America these days I so often wonder? We look to Europe and see standing the buildings from centuries ago, kept alive and secure. Not so the cemeteries of our youth, those places where grottos and statues and stations of the cross lived and spoke. Once. Now no more. Can there be a future? Can there be a future when there is no past?

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Johnny Depp & Friend

I found these guys while checking out AnotherKindOfGrass on WordPress. Nice site, nice photo. It’s always so sweet to find kindness for all of Earth’s Creatures. Yes?

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Nature’s Beauty

Sometimes I have to take a break from the sickness of the world and turn to the beauty of nature. For me, that’s the religion that restores my soul.

Beautiful Pictures with Devinda Deva.            2 February at 23:28

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Abandoned

It seems to me that we discard those most precious things of our culture and history. So many beautiful churches are being demolished, abandoned, violated. We leave such beauty to be ravished by nature or the hands of man. We don’t seem to treasure much in America. I always puzzle at that lack of regard for our own history and those monuments to faith and art. I never find redeeming answers. I’m only left with sadness.

485_15678_8257276Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Photograph by Matthew Christopher of Abandoned America

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Fame

Wordless she disappeared. Without the leaving of notes there is no path to follow. Then, bring in the trumpets, the horns, the brass. It is as much as light into darkness. She must.

6-_art367816_2800IMAGE: Fame, from Spanish Actions Deflected by the Taking of Ghent (detail), by Charles Le Brun, 1678. Palace of Versailles, Hall of Mirrors, France.