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Scar Tissue

I have three significant scars on my body. One is from a surgery I had as an infant to correct pyloric stenosis; one is from a biking…

Apr 5, 2024

Aerial view of Bowling Green State University which includes Carillon Park (which I don’t believe was called that when I went to school there) in the foreground, with its array of sidewalks, Anderson Arena (now Memorial Hall) , Jerome Library, Saddlemire Student Services Building (a disc-shaped building), Moore Musical Arts Center, the Student Recreation Center, and part of the Kreischer Quadrangle (student housing).

Apr 5, 2024

For Johnny (Wherever He Might Be)

I originally published this as a Note on Facebook in 2014 or so, but since Facebook has shut down that feature, I have begun the migration…

Sep 8, 2023

Sep 8, 2023

Class Trip, 1972

This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of having graduated from high school, so because it’s what I do, I’ve been giving a lot of thought…

Aug 16, 2023

Photograph of Ann McIlhargey lying on chairs in the ballroom of the Silver Springs Maryland Holiday Inn sometime in May of 1972.

Aug 16, 2023

Reunion II

I began writing this as a Note on Facebook in 2013, but let it sit as a draft. And sit. And sit. With my fifty-year reunion about a week…

Aug 11, 2023

Panoramic photograph of a (likely) 2013 Chrysler Crossfire with a red polebarn in the background.

Aug 11, 2023

When I Go (In Memoriam)

Today marks twenty-one years since Dave Carter died. I published this as a Note on Facebook on this day in 2010, but since Facebook has…

Jul 19, 2023

Photograph of singer-songwriter Dave Carter resting on his guitar, which is resting on his knee, as he listens to another songwriter perform a song at a workshop stage at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival on 29 July 2000, two years before he died. Photo copyright 2023 by Patrick T. Power. All rights reserved.

Jul 19, 2023

Dyadic Encounter

It’s an underexposed photograph, taken with the very first 35mm camera I ever owned, a Nikkormat FTN that I’d bought from my roommate, Lou…

Nov 19, 2022

Underexposed black-and-white 35mm photograph of Patty Haffner taken in 1979 at the Bowling Green State University Student Union, Bowling Green, Ohio.

Nov 19, 2022

Miami River Music Festival, 1975

Something reminded me of this this morning, so I did a search at Newspapers [dot] com…

Aug 8, 2022

Miami River Music Festival, 1975

Aug 8, 2022

Qui a marché ici ?

Note: This is an update of a post I wrote in 2006 at Flickr, shortly after my second visit to Paris. I also posted it at Blogger, and…

Aug 1, 2022

Qui a marché ici ?

Aug 1, 2022

The Abstract

Note: This is an update of a post I wrote in 2004 on my first blog at Blogger. I have been going through posts on that site which I’d long…

Jul 30, 2022

The Abstract

Jul 30, 2022

In the Morning, Allison

Today is my daughter Allison’s 35th birthday. For many years, on her birthday, her mother, Penny, would force her to listen to the story of…

Jul 29, 2022

In the Morning, Allison

Jul 29, 2022

Insomnia

i wonder what she thinks at night when peaceful sleep eludes her do eyes that view the precipice see dreams that might include her?

Jul 28, 2022

Insomnia

Jul 28, 2022

Fallen

I don’t see them fall but fall they do. Each time, I imagine the thud of skull on glass, then carcass on wood. In one surely unobserved…

Jul 28, 2022

Fallen

Jul 28, 2022

Across The Universe

I originally published this as a Note on Facebook in 2014 or so. Since Facebook has shut down that feature, I will begin migration of some…

Jul 7, 2022

Jul 7, 2022

A few final words on Michael Jackson

I published this as a Note on Facebook in 2009, shortly after Michael Jackson had died. Since Facebook has shut down that feature, I will…

Jul 7, 2022

A few final words on Michael Jackson

Jul 7, 2022

La photo que je n’ai pas prise

During my first trip to Paris in November of 2005, I had or witnessed experiences that I wanted to eventually assemble as stories or (dream…

Jul 5, 2022

La photo que je n’ai pas prise

Jul 5, 2022

Retouching

I wrote this nine years ago (27 May 2013) for a Facebook post, and since it came up as a Facebook memory today, I thought I’d make it…

May 28, 2022

Retouching

May 28, 2022

Grand Theft Auto

When I was in high school in the 1970s, my dad had an early 1960s-vintage Ford Falcon that he’d obtained from his sister’s husband. I…

Mar 31, 2022

1960 turquoise Ford Falcon

Mar 31, 2022

Sesquipedalians

Some years ago, I read an essay, “The Joy Of Sesquipedalians” by Anne Fadiman, from her collection, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common…

Feb 3, 2022

Feb 3, 2022

Thing

Sometime in the early 1940s, my mom’s parents divorced. Maybe it was the other way around, but I suspect not, because Mom seemed to hold…

Feb 1, 2022

Thing

Feb 1, 2022

It has been interesting so far...

Jan 20, 2022

Jan 20, 2022

patrick

patrick

Event, portrait and street photographer. Midwest boy currently residing in San Francisco. Not ‘Frisco; not San Fran — San Francisco. Vegan.

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