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Southern Ingenuity:
When life gives you days in the desert, where both the temperature and heat index exceed 100 degrees, MAKE TEA. You can take me outta the South, but you can’t take the South outta me. While others sit in their circles complaining, I’m out here making the best of a bad situation every chance I get!
—Sun
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Southern Ingenuity:

When life gives you days in the desert, where both the temperature and heat index exceed 100 degrees, MAKE TEA. You can take me outta the South, but you can’t take the South outta me. While others sit in their circles complaining, I’m out here making the best of a bad situation every chance I get!

—Sun

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A few shots that I captured of T-Wall Art in Baghdad, Iraq


Taji Nights

Black Bird

In the wee hours of the morning, I like to go outside and listen to the muezzin lead the call to prayer over a loudspeaker in the distance.  Its warm and dusty out here tonight, but there’s a calm wind blowing that familiar gunpowder scent around.  Suddenly, as if he was waiting his turn, a cricket chimes in immediately after the prayer is done, reminding me of summer nights in the South.

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