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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…

8 min readApr 5, 2024

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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).

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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…

6 min readSep 8, 2023

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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…

10 min readAug 16, 2023

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

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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…

10 min readAug 11, 2023

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

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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…

5 min readJul 19, 2023

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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.

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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…

9 min readNov 19, 2022

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

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Miami River Music Festival, 1975

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

3 min readAug 8, 2022

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Miami River Music Festival, 1975

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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…

3 min readAug 1, 2022

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Qui a marché ici ?

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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…

3 min readJul 30, 2022

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The Abstract

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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…

5 min readJul 29, 2022

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In the Morning, Allison

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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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