Round and Round

"Experience is a form of paralysis" -Erik Satie

In Transit

1994

Winter On Gratz Street

Knoxville, Tennessee

My Hood, Circa 1979

Another Time. Another Place.

I've been ruminating a lot on the circular nature of change. Well, the circular nature of my change. Circling back, as it were, here are a few more photographs from that period several years ago when I last found myself at a cross roads.

You Can Tell Me All About It On The Next Bardo

Knoxville 1997, Stormfront

Twelve years ago, after coasting along on neutral, predictable curves for what felt like entirely too long, things began to shift. Nothing seismic, or dramatic, or even particularly interesting at first. Just a series of small changes that seemed to be accumulating into something bigger, and a sense of things ending. I could see this particularly sharp, acute corner ahead but had no idea what was around it. But I did know everything was going to change and I remember taking very conscious stock of my life and wondering what would still be in inventory when it was all settled. Then I turned the corner, everything did change, and quite a few things closest to my heart, and a very many that weren't, were missing from inventory when it was done. Turn the page.

Today, everything is changing again. This time though, the shifts are seismic. And dramatic. And interesting, albeit in that slowing-down-to-look-at-the-traffic-accident sort of way. I made coffee this morning and figured the time was right to start taking stock.

Lenoir City,Tennessee, Early Spring 1980

Late Night Storm

1981

Long exposure of a summer storm

Lenoir City, Tennessee

It's A Godawful Small Affair

1983

Knoxville, Tennessee

The Joads Called. They Want Their Space Heater Back.

1977

Lenoir City, Tennessee

More Nevil Shute and Less Flannery O'Connor, Please

I'm driving to Tennessee today with the usual mixed feelings fully in attendance. There are parts I'll enjoy greatly. Others, not so much so.