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That Rich Faded Antique Texture-
2025-10-29 11:00 UTC by Corey

The rich, faded texture of time.
That’s what I see when I look at these things—
the way facades softens,
the way color fades,
the way old text curls at the edge of paper, and
ink tells the stories.

Photo Unknown Source

I take photos to remember what I cannot copy.
Though, somehow, we keep trying—
paint mixed...

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French Brocante Style
2025-10-28 11:00 UTC by Corey

Things gathered. From the French brocante—dusty, tender, full of someone else’s yesterday.

Nothing matches. That’s not what I’m after I collect things I like and then I find a place in our home. Which is getting harder to do if you know what I mean.

A threadbare pillow. A ribbon, faded, once pink maybe, wrinkled the way time...

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A Little Bit of Everything- at the Brocante
2025-10-27 11:00 UTC by Corey

The Ordinary
2025-10-26 11:00 UTC by Corey

I heard this song and had to write it here:

They say, “The holy water’s watered down
And this town’s lost its faith
Our colors will fade eventually”
So if our time is runnin’ out
Day after day
We’ll make the mundane our masterpiece

Oh my, my
Oh my, my love
I take one look at you

...

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Communion with Love
2025-10-25 11:00 UTC by Corey

Two years plus of witnessing Gaza’s destruction — the denial at the hands of evil, the silence, the governments that turn their eyes away. It’s hard not to lose faith when greed speaks louder than love, when the machine of war drowns out the voices of peace.

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An Evening Walk
2025-10-24 11:00 UTC by Corey

My thoughts pour out, rambling in different directions all at once, scattering like leaves blowing past my path. The clouds drift by, my hair tangles in the wind, and soon my thoughts begin to slow. I let them go—wandering with the leaves, with the clouds, drifting by, or like a pebble I throw into the stream.

A single leaf clings,
a...

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