Sleeping at the wheel

 5AM in September, where does the mind go? Sometimes you wake only to find you been sleeping for 20 years. So busy in the day's activities that you forget time and then one morning you awake and find its all passed you by. Pick Floyd has a song like that but it seems that even after listening to the lyrics for years, over and over again, you don't realize just how true they are. 

I've spent a bit of time behind the camera this year. A couple of pretty pictures to look at every now and then but its still a subterfuge of reality. Too much too soon to take in. Not even a question of where the time go, its just gone.  Gone man, gone!

A few months back this blog rolled over 20 years, twenty! So many people have passed, so many. A head full of ghosts now. Just like the images on the screens. Flickers in the timeline they are. Ghosts within the chemicals of my mind. 

But we have a bunch of pretty pictures. Hopefully not to fill up a data center somewhere, taking up resources. It makes me think of the glass pictures, the daguerreotypes; mercury to silicon.  Papyrus- always back to the Egyptians. Stone note taking.  What is the reasoning, truly, what is the reasoning within the mind? Chemistry, mortality? 

Experience and remembrance. So far this year I got two rides in on a bike and spend several times thinking about riding. As someone once said; "never, not riding". Yeah, riding the wave of mortality right past the events that makeup a life well used. It doesn't seems that way today. Too early to go ride? Noise? Certainly don't want to wake the neighbors; too much noise in the world as it is. Kinda like data centers and the digital foot print of people. Nope, not sure that I'm concerned with what people will think about me in the future. There is a difference between "I'm alive" and "I was here", or is there a difference? I set of eyes behind the camera?  And another song falls into the mind; the Who's 'behind blue eyes' 

Old Ford pickup at the 2026 Cranberry Flywheelers Mill Lot Show. Shot on a Olympus OM-2 with Kodak Tri-X 400. developed with Cinestills Df96 one stop developer and rephotographed with a Sony A7Riii.