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| El Paso Thanksgiving Parade. Texas, November 2016. |
I took tons of photos of the El Paso Thanksgiving Parade, but I've tossed all of them except those in which people are the centers.
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| Danza de San Juan. El Paso Thanksgiving Parade. Texas, November 2016. |
There's something special when a person looks straight at me and, forever caught by the camera, there is that wide smile or the model-pose or a slip of a smile or a contemplative, steady gaze or a simple, frank acknowledgement from one person to another. A namaste.
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| El Paso Thanksgiving Parade. Texas, November 2016. |
Every time I look up at the girl on the right, in her sunshine-y shirt, I can't help but smile back. Then I look at the little girl on the left, next to the boy, and I look steadily into her eyes and I wonder about her spirit within.
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| El Paso Thanksgiving Parade. Texas, November 2016. |
There's something Rockwellian about the photo below, a mom, maybe, taking a picture of her daughter, who's engrossed in what's on her phone. Maybe a text from a boy she's crushing on. The anchoring of place(s): El Paso. Anthony. The USA. Space.
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| El Paso Thanksgiving Parade. Texas, November 2016. |
Then below is the real and the pretend, and the present moment awaiting the future one, the look to the distance, off to the side, a man perhaps thinking, wondering, planning, remembering.
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| Lucha libre. El Paso Thanksgiving Parade. Texas, November 2016. |
And below are three playlets on one stage, each unfolding simultaneously, a medley:
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| El Paso Thanksgiving Parade. Texas, November 2016. |
El Paso's mayor. Pausing. The mountain citizen in the back. Baptism.
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| El Paso Thanksgiving Parade. Texas, November 2016. |
Three Texas lawmen.
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| El Paso Thanksgiving Parade. Texas, November 2016. |
The affable, home town newsies.
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| El Paso Thanksgiving Parade. Texas, November 2016. |
A slide show here:
Thanks for sharing wonderful pictures!
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