Week 21 of 209 Weeks: “I am pulling the voices of people I desire and love and trust and worry over into me.” —Saeed Jones, “My Project 2025” Photo Notes: This photo was taken in the courtyard of my grandmother-in-law’s house in Jinju, South Korea in May 2024.

Week 20 of 209 Weeks: No dejarte dominar por el miedo. Translation: Don’t let yourself be ruled by fear. Photo Notes: This carved lion, made out of a large chunk of wood, was found at a garden center sort of store (or maybe a landscaper?) in Seoul, South Korea in May 2024.

Week 19 of 209 Weeks:‘Tis not in the high stars alone,Nor in the cup of budding flowers,Nor in the red-breast’s mellow tone,Nor in the bow that smiles in showers.But in the darkest, meanest thingsThere alway, alway something sings. —Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Music” Photo Notes: Taken at a state park maybe? (I need to take better notes!)

Week 18 of 209 Weeks: “I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of the hunger for life that gnaws in us all.” —Richard Wright, Black Boy (1945)…

Week 17 of 209 Weeks:May you feel lovedMay you feel free from fearMay your hopes and dreams be realized Photo Notes: This photo was taken at Pacem in Terris in Isanti, MN in Feb 2025. On a walk, I found this “footprint” in the snow. It took me a minute to realize the leaf, with its…

Week 16 of 209 Weeks: “Walk on air against your better judgement.” —Seamus Heaney Photo Notes: ??? No idea. Think I may have taken these photos at a state park? (I need to take better notes.)

Week 15 of 209 Weeks: “…because if enough of us believe a thing, then it becomes so.” —N.K. Jemisin. Photo Notes: Photo notes: This photo was taken at the last iron pour held at the University of Minnesota in Spring 2019.

Week 14 of 209 Weeks: Inauguration by Dave HedenstromWelcome to a despot’s Golden Agewhere Empathy is heckled off the stage:the Other is best gone, or in a cage,and Jesus just a useful tool for rage.Let those who know true Love not disengagein hope that History turns a better page. Photo Notes: This photo was taken at Pacem…

Week 13 of 209 Weeks: “You know that the antidote to exhaustion is not necessarily rest?… The antidote to exhaustion is wholeheartedness.” —Brother David Steindl-Rast Photo Notes: This photo was taken at the Minnesota State Fairground in 2020, a few months after COVID lockdowns started. The Fairgrounds are generally open to the public during the day, but…

Week 12 of 209 Weeks: A Korean proverb—산무당이 시림 잡는다. Translation: An inexperienced shaman causes people pain. Photo Notes: This photo was taken somewhere in South Korea in October 2018. Where? Which building? Temple? Palace? No earthly idea. Apparently I need to take better notes.