Tag Archives: Hasselblad

Three

Posted on December 22, 2011 by stephenarcher

6/100 Strangers Project Today, my three, my son, my wife and me, were sit­ting in a preop hold­ing room in Port­land at the uni­ver­sity hos­pi­tal. We walked in to the Mult­nomah pavil­lion– the word evokes pres­ence and his­tory at the … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Metronome

Posted on August 23, 2011 by stephenarcher

We stand side by side wav­ing our arms beat­ing time in the wind beau­ti­ful and sense­less. I can’t get away from the tur­bines. The sound is the pla­cen­tal rhythm, the wind cut by the blade is the same as the … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Molten

Posted on June 29, 2011 by stephenarcher

Today I learned that 65% of the stars we see burn­ing through the draped vel­vet are really dou­ble stars. If one looks through a tele­scope it is two stars most of the time. I am think­ing of rela­tion­ships. The bright ones are … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Nothing There

Posted on June 25, 2011 by stephenarcher

My third grade teacher told me to take time to look around. He sug­gested we look at our shoes, at the edges of win­dows where the dust was thick, at the mid­dle of a blank wall. Just look, he said, because you … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Trunk

Posted on June 3, 2011 by stephenarcher

I have read that the dis­trac­tions and addic­tions we play with are the branches and leaves of a tree. The trunk of the tree is called code­pen­dence, a ridicu­lous word with no rela­tion­ship by mean­ing to the word that makes it … Con­tinue read­ing →

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