“Love does not terrify me. But the going away of it does. I have been made terribly aware of how everything can be wrenched away from you and your life torn apart. If I had known very secure nights all my life, if I had never seen or felt the fear of being tortured or deported or blown up into a million pieces, then I would not fear it.”
– Audrey Hepburn
Photograph: © StephiaMadelyne
Somewhere in the Middle of Nowhere
Art of the Familiar 
What a powerful image. I swear walt whitman is in there somewhere.
Whitman has always been an influential figure in my life – I couldn’t ask for a nicer compliment/comment, Steven.