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We are stardust

We are golden

And we've got to get ourselves

Back to the garden

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What lucky buckarettes and buckaroos we are to have Dr. R living in our time. I am grateful for all of us here in word and image.

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I ENJOY YOUR ARTICLES EVERY DAY AND ARE REFRESHED BY OCCASIONAL IMAGES.

THANK YOU.

JOYCE

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Thank you again, Heather, for another lovely, peaceful photo. You always deserve an evening off, but you're especially entitled after yesterday's Letter. It was so meaningful and uplifting, and we needed that.

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I’ve found I need a media diet of only Professor Richardson’s ‘Letter’ and an occasional serving of The News Hour, and a local Maine Public call-in, and On Point w Megna Chakrabarti. Thank you Professor, for the wisdom contained in Peter’s photographs - a breath of fresh “news"

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I look forward to the photos, whether from Buddy or Peter. In this latest one, the tranquil seas belie what's happening all around us.

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Like your columns which give us facts and history without hysteria your photos are visual respites . Thank you 🙏

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Sad reading the news today that at some college football games people are chanting "F Joe Biden",

Note it was a fox article, but there was video.

I guess respect for the office no longer matters.

Sad, sad, sad. So much for common decency.

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'Breakwater Dawn' a good name for Peter's photograph.

1. Dawn

the first appearance of light in the sky before sunrise

The photo is filled with sky and the moon is so high that harbor/house ? looks much smaller than when instead actually standing nearby to it. Perspective counts strongly when looking at this photographed scene. The vast sky is not too overwhelming as its colors are muted and dusty in tones of pastel salmon/yellow and shades of gray, a near impossible set of colors for me to relay. A bird, high in the sky with long wings flies below and away from the moon. Ah, the moon, an eye catching bright circle of off-white. I reduced the photo to half its size, so I could see it fully from top to bottom. The photo displays an uncommon view; a perfectly centered and quite dramatic composition of sky, moon, bird, harbor/house? on a jetty, with a slim slice of water all around. I would be happy to see 'Breaking Dawn' again, preferably, hanging on a wall. This exercise was very different than composing a comment about what Heather's Letter may generate. The time has been all about how to see Peter's strikingly unusual picture and then attempt to describe it. An early morning exercise in seeing and descriptive writing. I am not at ease about what I've accomplished and didn't have to do it. I could have looked at 'Breaking Dawn' and then gone on to something else, but the photo seemed to demand more of me. Thank you Peter and Heather for a different challenge. I hope that you both a good September, Monday.

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What a glorious image! Thank you for all your phenomenal work. Last night's letter was extraordinary. Rest well!

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Off topic, but this was posted in my Expats Watching the Shitstorm group. Would it be something to explore on your Tuesday viedo? https://eand.co/american-life-is-traumatizing-americans-but-they-dont-know-it-547889b951a2

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Great Photo. That must be one of Peter Ralston's trained gulls.

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Thank you, HCR and Peter Ralston.

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This photograph takes all my angst out of my soul this morning.... I am inspired to do nothing but work on my passion: photography! Both Peter and Buddy have become my silent mentors! I believe I feel their visions throughout my being and want to give that gift to as well!

Thank you so much for everything. Have a lovely week....

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Long, heart wrenching, and hopeful

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