DAILY PHOTO: Structure 10 Ruins, Ek Balam

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Photograph of ruins of Structure 10 (seemingly bleached white) taken at Ek Balam, a site of Mayan ruins in the Mexican Yucatan.

PROMPT: Ideal Life

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If you had to describe your ideal life, what would it look like?
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The implication being that I’m not living it? I’m outraged. Desire for things to be what they aren’t is the mother of all suffering.

DAILY PHOTO: Three Views of the Well at Mul Chowk

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Photograph of an ornate well in a courtyard at Mul Chowk in Patan's (Lalitpur's) Durbar Square. Taken from the front.
Photograph of an ornate well in a courtyard at Mul Chowk in Patan's (Lalitpur's) Durbar Square. Taken from the side.
Photograph of an ornate well in a courtyard at Mul Chowk in Patan's (Lalitpur's) Durbar Square. Taken from above.

PROMPT: Concert

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What is the best concert you have been to?
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I don’t know about “best.” I’ve lived a lot of life. But we went to a Christmas concert in St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans this past Christmas that was a pretty awesome experience (that I can still remember.)

Vanishing [Haiku]

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Photograph of a streambed and cloudy mountains take on the Annapurna Sactuary Trek in Nepal.
moving up valley,
 fog thickens until there
  is only the step.

Mountain Blue [Haiku]

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Photograph of blue skies over a small roadside stop in the Andes between Cuzco and Puno.
mountain skies:
 fade to a blue so deep
  it chills the bones.

This Is Not My World [Free Verse]

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Photograph taken on Siquijor Island of the Philippines at sunset as low clouds reflected on the Bohol Sea. 
Every once in a while,
    you see a sight 
    that makes you say,

"This cannot be 
    the world I know!"

DAILY PHOTO: Views of the National Museum of Qatar

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Photograph in the courtyard of the National Museum of Qatar in Doha.
Photograph of the National Museum of Qatar with palm tree -- taken in Doha.
Photograph of the National Museum of Qatar taken from an elevated view in Sheikh Abdulla bin Jassim Al-Thani Palace.
Photograph of the National Museum of Qatar flagpole.

PROMPT: Best Thing

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Which is the best thing to do in your city?
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I’m fond of the hiking trails.

Monster Toes [Free Verse]

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Photograph of a thorny tree taken in the Gardens by the Bay in Singapore.
tree trunk studded by thorns
   that look like 
       mean monster toenails
   with gnarly green cuticles,

even tree-huggers stay at
   arm’s length.