Through the Gateway
John Van DalenExploring the dimensions of the personal essay
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The brooding, pulsating, magical song of cicadas, and the emotions they revive of “good old summertimes,” long past
The heat Saturday began subsiding as I walked between the oak tres in the park. I listened, as I always keenly do, to the cicadas humming and buzzing in the branches, the most distinct and loved sound of summer for me.
The slight heat...
Journal entries from the record of my first road trip encounter with the immensity, variety, and beauty of America
The years 1984-1993 were what I describe as my time of wandering in the proverbial “wilderness. Nothing in the entire decade lasted more than a year or two. It was a period of being displaced and unsettled, year after year, and one disillus...
Familiar stops along paths at parks and gardens become brief way stations where I think and observe closely with my camera
To find new things, take the path you took yesterday.
– John Burroughs
The winding path approaches the secluded and peaceful place.
– Huang Binhong
What a relaxed life is that which flees the worldly clamor, and follows th...
The healing power of a “magical” photograph
(Updated: June 12, 2026)
Note: The following is a cautionary tale involving a job search, an interview, deeply thinking about the past (or overthinking it) and painful memories that surface subconsciously whenever the time is right fo...
Sitting on benches: A meditation on some of my favorite places to sit and think
I’m sitting on a bench under live oak trees after a meditative walk past marsh creeks and through gardens where ancient camellias produce the most magnificent white red, and pink flowers in late winter. I have been photographing them fo...
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Former teacher, newspaper writer and editor, and reference librarian. Passionate about landscape and vernacular photography. Observer and writer about life and it’s limitless possibilities.
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