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View fullsize The grave marker of Adele Brise in Champion near Door County.. composed in Walloon, related to French and still spoken in southern Belgium

What I’m reading,
Winter 2026:

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modernity

Extending Hope

August 16, 2025
Tags: Texas, church, modernity, road, warehouse

The Heart of Blankness

August 14, 2025
Tags: Texas, warehouse, modernity, transportation

Photographing an Interchange

August 13, 2025
Tags: Texas, freeway, road, photography, modernity

How We Imagine Egypt

December 21, 2024
Tags: cairo, modernity, river, water, nation, Egypt

Waiting for Godot

December 18, 2024
Tags: cairo, modernity, interior scene, design, covid19

Fragment of a Parking Lot

December 07, 2024
Tags: cairo, parking lot, modernity, water, surveillance

Universal Arches and Pandas

December 07, 2024
Tags: cairo, city, mall, fast-food, modernity

More Mahfouz

December 07, 2024
Tags: cairo, novel, bookstore, books, mall, modernity

Mixed Experience

December 04, 2024
Tags: Egypt, travel, pyramid, modernity

Beyond the Walls

September 26, 2024
Tags: cairo, innovation, work space, sign, cars, modernity

Blank Design Principles

September 22, 2024
Tags: Egypt, mall, design, modernity, interior scene

Living in the Population Uptick

September 13, 2024
Tags: place, population, modernity, globalization, sacred space, history

Place and a Flat Population

September 13, 2024
Tags: place, population, modernity, medieval, museum

Looking Back Again

September 12, 2024
Tags: Egypt, skyscraper, sacred space, architecture, development, modernity

Modernity as Ghost Town

August 30, 2024
Tags: cairo, Egypt, modernity, skyscraper, construction
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