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Robert Prince's avatar

That's beautiful Erica.

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Erica Weick's avatar

Thanks, dear Robert! "Bondade de seus olhos que poem beleza em tudo que veem!"

"Kindness of your visions that place beauty in everything they see!" It is a very old saying we, (my best friend and I) used to repeat to everyone we met, way back, in high school days. We were considered weird then.

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Elizabeth Beggins's avatar

Erica, I feel this deeply. It is hard to know how to find the appropriate balance. The end, though, yes. "Sometimes I wonder, but most times I know I stay in the Eastern Shore because the people here still remind me of what home is."

The Leopold piece brought a tightness to my chest. So often, we think we know best. So often, we know too little. Thank you for sharing all of this.

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Erica Weick's avatar

Elizabeth, thank you for your heartfelt comments! That writing touches me deeply, still today.

I like Aldo Leopold and his story about the wolves, the mountains and the rivers. For me it is almost always about staying open...

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Elizabeth Beggins's avatar

He had some tricky ideas when it came to population and immigration, but I try to glean the good from his writings and focus on the benefits of those concepts. Staying open is a virtue.

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Trish's avatar

I love that Erica. The arc of the story and its visual poetry takes you on the ride home.

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Erica Weick's avatar

Thanks, Tricia!

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Tom Cheetham's avatar

damn this is good - and you have really stepped up- yr photography game!!

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Erica Weick's avatar

Thanks, Tom. Glad you liked it! The photography continues to ride at the edges of figure representation and something other, something else...

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Marco André Schwarzstein's avatar

Great photos and beautiful vintage text from last century!

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Erica Weick's avatar

Ah, Marco, thanks!! Amazing how we all seem to cling to texts from previous centuries, isn't it?

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