He was talking before I saw him.  A husky flat drone.  He was seated across the table from me, on the aisle side.    I had not seen him enter the car or take his seat. The train was crowded, yet there were only the two of us at a table that was meant for four passengers.  I was at the window seat facing forwards, he was diagonally opposite from me.  I didn’t look at him immediately … I was busy.  He did speak first, hesitantly, he was not shy, but not entirely comfortable starting a conversation. I detected a slight stutter or hesitation in his voice.

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Inside your head

Images clash

How can One

Be

Certain?

He is behind you.

Looking through your head.

Something is moving off to the distant right.

What he wants is to know you.

Why resist …

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American culture is as similar and as different as the cultures that influenced it, given the time it has existed in America, on it own, isolated from its source.  No one who really knows America would think for a moment that is is a mono-culture.  It’s cultural landscape is as varied as the land itself.  Toby Old has focused on the culture, on its enormity from coast-to-coast, from to-to-town, and then some. Here are a few of his subjects.

Leipzig is a city of the future: its past and present are in alignment.  Memories linger everywhere and in time have blended and mixed into a contemporary version of Eastern Europe that captures the regions past and charts its future.  Leipzig still has decisions to make, decisions that will determine if it is to be unique in Europe or if it will follow the established Western European pathway and become just another city, a carbon copy with a different name.

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