Michael R. Moore

On Photography

“The real subject is yourself facing the world” – Thierry Girard

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Chicago this morning, at sunrise

“People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.” — St. Augustine

Red Line, Chicago

Wigs & Hair, Chicago

NYC

“One purpose of a liberal arts education is to make your head a more interesting place to live inside of for the rest of your life.”

– Mary Patterson McPherson, President, Bryn Mawr College

Charles Simic in the NYRB

“My own inordinate interest in what the lunatics are up to in every corner of our planet has to do with my childhood.”

– Goodbye Serenity, 12/5/2011.

Thanksgiving

“There is also a growing out-of-sight-out-of-mind problem. A study, by Sean Reardon, a sociologist at Stanford, shows that Americans are increasingly living in areas that are either poor or affluent. The isolation of the prosperous, he said, threatens their support for public schools, parks, mass transit and other investments that benefit broader society.

“The poor do without and the near poor, at best, live from paycheck to paycheck. Most Americans don’t know what that is like, but unless the nation reverses direction, more are going to find out.”
— The Poor, the Near Poor and You