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The Parkways Projects 1934≈2025

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A reconsideration of Appalachia 55 years later in this dedicated project series: Photography, Digital Collage #EastCoastKin #ArtYear A PhotoEssay, Patreon & Substack by Tom Ogburn on the Great Smoky Mountains NP, Blue Ridge, Skyline Drive & Shenandoah NP

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The Parkways Projects 1934≈2025 @parkwaysprojects.bsky.social · Aug 30

Dreams are the realms of ghosts. And Memory 🌙

Final Edit, Part 1. A bit more of a read than its earlier form.

Welcome to the End Days of August 1943-2025

#Words #ArtYear #EastCoastKin #dreams #mindscape #ghosts #memory #surreal #postmodern #magicalrealism
#writer #writing #microfiction #gothic

Dreams are the realms of ghosts. And Memory.

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” ≈ Zora Neale Hurston

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The Parkways Projects 1934≈2025 @parkwaysprojects.bsky.social · 9d

🦉Thanks y'all, for the likes. It means a lot to me! 🌿🕊️

The Parkways Projects 1934≈2025 @parkwaysprojects.bsky.social · 13d

Not sure on this one, but, I love your work! 🦉🌙

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The Parkways Projects 1934≈2025 @parkwaysprojects.bsky.social · 13d

🦉"The Seven Vacations (of nine tales) #TheParkwaysProjects
#TomOgburn #TheBlueRidgeParkway #Appalachians 🪔

An introduction of a place, a family, and a once turbulent Time called "The 1960's." #Photograph by me at age 12, 2nd #Photo by my father. #EastCoastKin #ArtYear #BlueSky🦋

The Seven Vacations (of nine tales)

Short takes » Instamatics » A glimpse into the summer of 1968 and glancing losses

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The Parkways Projects 1934≈2025 @parkwaysprojects.bsky.social · 18d

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The Parkways Projects 1934≈2025 @parkwaysprojects.bsky.social · 18d

Hey Pekka :) Just dropping in for a few minutes to grab hold to some words ;) I hope Denver is becoming a splendid fall!

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Skittles @skittlesmom.bsky.social · 18d

Lake Superior sunset, Keweenaw Peninsula in Michigan.

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The Parkways Projects 1934≈2025 @parkwaysprojects.bsky.social · 18d

A wonderful start to a day writing. Many thanks to Ruth Ben-Ghiat 💙🦋

Healthy Seniors (@healthyseniors)

One month before turning 95, Patricia Routledge wrote this, she died today aged 96. “I’ll be turning 95 this coming Monday. When I was younger, I often worried I wasn’t good enough—that I’d never be ...

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The Parkways Projects 1934≈2025 @parkwaysprojects.bsky.social · 19d

Damn. I hope he sees the wave of relief and support his words gave us in these las 24 hours.

More importantly, I hope he addresses our current situation again. Like, now?

READ: The Full Statement From Jim Mattis

Former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis issued an extraordinary criticism of President Trump's leadership, saying Trump has sought to divide Americans.

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Julia Barnwell @juliabarnwell.bsky.social · 20d

Joni Mattis 1960 by Jerry White

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The Parkways Projects 1934≈2025 @parkwaysprojects.bsky.social · 19d

We have reached the most important place yet in our nation’s crisis. This statement, I hope, is a crucial turning point for the well being of our World.

#Peace

Kathy (@kathy622729)

Former Defense Secretary and retired Marine Corps General James Mattis has released a statement. Here is the text of the complete statement. IN UNION THERE IS STRENGTH I have watched this week’s unf...

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The Parkways Projects 1934≈2025 @parkwaysprojects.bsky.social · 20d

🌿 "What’s the stupidest way to get injured? Follow the pundits and politicians who said every quagmire war was noble and every criminal elite was on the verge of indictment and every obvious crisis was your hysterical imagination and every vulnerable population was an existential threat..."≈Kendzior

The Parkways Projects 1934≈2025 @parkwaysprojects.bsky.social · 20d

🌙 "The most American way to get injured is to have an injury for years and ignore it because the bill scares you more than the pain. I am an American Patriot: I kneel to no one because I lost my meniscus to a decade of delaying the doctor."≈Kendzior

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The Parkways Projects 1934≈2025 @parkwaysprojects.bsky.social · 20d

🦉 An insightfully artful & poignantly powerful drop. The literary equivalent of the special ops soldier on a solo mission, parachuting into the fray below.

"The stupidest way to get injured is to view everything through cynical wounds and never imagine a more generous world." #SarahKendzior

The United States of Flying Carp

The stupidest way to get injured.

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Jeffrey Fearing, Ph.D @photoprof.bsky.social · Sep 6

Just finished The Last American Road Trip by Sarah Kendzior.
It’s a poignant and bracing memoir of a family and a country. Unforgettable.
Five stars⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

📚💙#BookSky
#SarahKendzior

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Joe Strummer (the living one) @stroejummer.bsky.social · 21d

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About the only salvageable image from last night's aurora.

Looks better in full size.

#EastCoastKin #photography

A dark sky illuminated by green and pink auroras, with a wooden fence in the foreground and scattered stars above.

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The Parkways Projects 1934≈2025 @parkwaysprojects.bsky.social · 20d

Beautiful photo Aaron! Visiting from my iPhone in the field🦉🌙

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The Parkways Projects 1934≈2025 @parkwaysprojects.bsky.social · 20d

“Pelting hail with thunder riffs,” sort of an atypical work from “The Parkways Projects.” I scooted down in the seat to shoot Grandaddy’s 1955 Chrysler 300-A.

#ArtYear #Photography #EastCoastKin

A Still Life in a Sandhills Powerstorm

Short Cuts » A Weather Assemblage Courtesy of Mother Nature, Artist — with Photo Assist By Me

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The Parkways Projects 1934≈2025 @parkwaysprojects.bsky.social · 24d

🦉"Recede" #TheParkwaysProjects #TomOgburn #Photography

"Looking up is a major occupation in Jerome. There are things above you that otherwise, you would just never have a sighting by looking straight ahead."🌙

#Landscape #MountainMonday #DigitalCollage #JeromeAZ #EastCoastKin #ArtYear #BlueSky

Recede

Short Takes » “Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape.” ≈ Janet Fitch

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 24d

New interview! On saving the national parks, standing up against “national divorce” propaganda, and road-tripping through an America in turmoil. I enjoyed this conversation and hope you do too! whatamimaking.substack.com/p/waim-podca...