Abiding Surfer

- iPhone photo by Dimpy Bhalotia Flying boys, Varanasi, India, 2020

With this photo, taken with an IPhone 10, she received the grand prize in the 2020 IPhone Photography Awards. The boys are jumping off a man-made cliff into the Ganges River to beat the heat in the Indian summers.

[Jim Fagiolo]

* * * *

Space opens and from the heart of the matter sheds a descending grace that makes for a moment, that naked thing, Being, a thing to understand. 

The people want in! How much longer will they tolerate the network of illusions and vacuous rhetoric? What people want is simple. They want an America as good as its promise. They don't want to be outsiders... The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.

—Barbara Jordan, Commencement Address at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, June 16, 1977

Artwork: @fiz_lorsman | IG

* * * *

“It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”

— Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude