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Subject: [Leica] Boston T and Bob Dylan
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Thu May 18 14:56:06 2006
References: <20060518195302.36116.qmail@web25506.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <446CEB90.9050308@waltjohnson.com>

There's always great comfort to find in that other great American  
20th century poet, Joe Raposa, who died too soon back in 1989. :-)


Op 18-mei-06, om 23:48 heeft Walt Johnson het volgende geschreven:

> I was covering one of those virgin type things in El Paso years  
> back. Several thousand people on top of a mountain waiting to be  
> saved by the archbishop. Out of nowhere came a storm of immense  
> proportions. Old men and women, babies, sick and crippled folks who  
> were carried to the top by family and the biggest hailstones I've  
> ever seen. I shot all the way down, images to die for and the cold  
> rain and ice battered us all. At one point I threw myself over an  
> old lady to protect her but then jumped up to shoot some more.  
> Finally made it to the bottom and found my car. When I got home  
> neither of my F3's were loaded. Thirty years as a working  
> photojournalist and I shot my finest work with empty cameras? I  
> think that's when I became an atheist. :-P
>
> Walt
>
> Nick Roberts wrote:
>
>> Only time I was nearly struck by lightning was at a
>> grotto dedicated to the Virgin - shows how dangerous
>> religion is! ;)
>>
>> Nick
>>
>> --- Tina Manley <images@InfoAve.Net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> At 02:34 PM 5/18/2006, you wrote:
>>>
>>>> Tina:
>>>>
>>>> I can't agree good only comes from religion anymore
>>>>
>>> than all of the
>>>> world's evil does. .
>>>>
>>>> Walt
>>>>
>>> Walt - I said "much of the good" but maybe I should
>>> have added that I didn't include just organized religion.  The  
>>> groups
>>> I work with are a very eclectic bunch of unorganized do-gooders,  
>>> and,
>>> even though we are sponsored by the PCUSA, we do not proselytize at
>>> all and we treat anybody who shows up at the clinics - Christians,
>>> Mayans, sun-worshipers, pagans - we don't know because we
>>> don't ask.
>>>
>>> I was almost struck by lightning two years ago in
>>> Guatemala.  It renewed my faith!  Maybe you should go stand out in
>>> a field during a storm ;-)
>>>
>>> Tina
>>>
>>> Tina Manley, ASMP, NPPA
>>> http://www.tinamanley.com
>>>
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