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No Sunset This Evening...

My erection rant has been up long enough. No pun intended, of course.

The rant allowed me to vent; but other than that -- and perhaps finding a few like-minded people -- nothing was accomplished. Though I can't say I'm in love with dA's censorious policy I can understand the corporate mentality that created it. So no problem with dA itself.

I just wish there weren't those few mean-spirited people who have nothing better to do than troll through other individual's sites looking for something to complain about. But they exist -- and scum that they are -- will continue to assuage their inadequacies by gleefully reporting the work of other people. They are who they are.

'Nuf said on that issue for now.

In the process of my rants I've found there really is a diverse and supportive arts community here that sees beyond specific subject matter. People who've commented on my two previous rants regarding censorship really do "get it". Thanks for your kind words. And despite its inadequacies the site allows that community to exist and even to a certain extent thrive.

Tonight I won't be able to add to my gallery of sunsets. Storms have aleady gathered. No sun beams will have a chance to dance their way through the atmosphere's ions here in Key West. Though the visuals at the Torii Gate have left me speechless on more than one occasion, I'm glad to have the evening off if nothing else to allow me a moment to think about what I've experienced over the past week of photographing sunsets.

Each night was simultaneously a recognition of being one with the Universe as well as an extraordinary emotional high. What a gift to live in a place where I can witness such beauty!

But tonight, to be honest, I'm a bit exhausted from the week of work and photography. And, in the absence of the sun, I'm left wondering "what is the color of the wind"?

We are here and it is now. Futher than that all human knowledge is moonshine. __H. L. Mencken