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A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. J.R.R. Tolkien

could this be geo cache?

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. Josh Billings

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend
them with gentleness and time. Saint Francis de Sales

St. Lawrence River, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts
of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover
that I had not lived. Henry David Thoreau

To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability.
Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
Susan Sontag

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Single grave on the St. Lawrence River, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
(previous photo also from same location, Milton Cemetery)

Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves –
or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth. Ayn Rand

We bury with many different emotions. Rarely with intimations of mortality. ‘Buried’ is the
ultimate separation of them and us. As other’s lives are often only dreams to us, so also others’ deaths.
Josephine Hart

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. Pablo Picasso