The Sky is Falling by James L. Brown
I was visiting relatives up in Peterborough Canada and decided to get away to a local nature park to take some photos by the beautiful lake. With winter on its way, the day was very cold, but the winds were calm. Perfect conditions for me to…
The Weight of Iron
In the nineteenth century, engineers spoke of tension as if it were a moral virtue. They believed that if you pulled a wire tight enough, you could hold the world together, suspending heavy things over deep, churning water. We often think of…
The Architecture of Absence
In the quiet corners of a house, there is a particular kind of ghost that has nothing to do with spirits. It is the ghost of habit. We leave behind the imprint of our daily movements—the way we favored a certain floorboard that creaked, or…