Detroit, 2016
Eastern Market mural, created in 2015 by Fel3000ft.
Showing posts with label Detroit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Detroit. Show all posts
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17 December 2016
Detroit - Belle Isle
On an early June day, Ellen sent me here, to her favorite place, where she and Trixie had spent many hours in this urban oasis of nature. My first day out and the whole city lie before me--with its sadness and pain and broken dreams, the very black & white horrors of all it had endured. I wanted to see what her eyes had seen and feel what her heart had felt.
But this moment felt innocent and kind of Technicolor...And as children bustled nearby at their school picnic, I felt a sense of youthfulness & possibility & joy at a dream realized.
Open-hearted.
Open-hearted.
For those instants, all of Detroit shone...
12 December 2016
Detroit - Michigan Theatre
When I visited The Girl last summer, I stumbled onto the remains of this theater, a 1926 French Renaissance palace, now a parking garage guarded by a fierce security guard. I sweet-talked her into letting me in for about 45 minutes and managed not to get assaulted or fall through the floorboards...
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