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The Relentless Horizon

Wildfires burned large parts of the western United States in 2021, sending smoke and ash across the country. In Illinois, the summer sun was red.


Keep Looking for Jesus

Clearly, evidence of a messiah complex.

I used to think I was Jesus 
Come again to save the world 
I used to think I was Jesus 
Come again to save the world 
Not a broken bone in my body 
I could be the chosen one. 

Did you ever think nothing is real 
Except in your mind? 
No people around you, no world, 
No stars when you close your eyes 
Did you think were Jesus 
Come again to save the world? 
It could be true 
It could be true. 

Keep looking for Jesus 
Everywhere that you go 
He could be a man on the street 
He could be the Man in the Moon 
Keep looking for Jesus 
He may come back soon 
If it’s true 
If it’s true 

I mean no disrespect 
Singing this song 
I know I might be right 
Then again I might be wrong 
I’m just looking for Jesus 
Don’t you want to come along? 

Come along we'll look for Jesus 
Everywhere that we go 
He could be a man we meet on the street 
He could be the Man in the Moon 
Keep looking for Jesus 
He may come back soon 
If it’s true 
If it’s true 
If it's true 
If it's true 
It could be me 
It could be you 

©1997 Tom Atwood 
All Rights Reserved


Back in the USSR

A snowy overlook in Moscow during the winter of 1977. Photograph by Tom Atwood.


Influences of Sound on Meaning

Influences of Sound on Meaning_website.mp4 from Kaleidoscope on Vimeo.

The characteristics of sound and how sound can influence meaning. A lecture for MC 301, an advanced audio production course at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Spring 2021.


Photography

Birds on a wire at sunrise near Hamel, Illinois. Summer 2021.

Bohm Woods Nature Preserve. Edwardsville Illinois. Summer 2021.

Prometheus Moth. Bohm Woods Nature Preserve. Edwardsville, Illinois. Spring 2021.

Sunset on St. James Road near Holiday Shores, Illinois. Summer 2021.

Great Blue Heron fishing at the Watershed Nature Center in Edwardsville, Illinois.

A long exposure on Weber Road near Marine, Illinois


Holy Temple

We are nothing. We are free.

 Holy temple
   rescue me
Save me from
   the world I see
Holy temple
   rescue me

Sweet tradition
   carry me
Blind my eyes
   to what I see
Sweet tradition
   set me free

I am nothing
   I am free
I am you
   you are me
We are nothing
   we are free
We are nothing
   we are free

Holy temple
   rescue me
Save me from
   from the world I see
Ho-ho-holy temple
   won't you rescue me?
 
Sweet tradition
   carry me
Blind my eyes
   to the world I see
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet tradition
    set me, won't you set me free?

I may be nothing
   but I am free
I am you woo, whoa, yeah
   you are me
Together baby we are nothing
   we are free

©1977 Tom Atwood
All Rights Reserved

From the album Fire and Sound, released December 25, 2020

Arch shadows on low clouds. Light pollution in St. Louis, Missouri.

Ft. Russell Township. Madison County, Illinois. Summer 2021.

Grand Traverse Bay near Northport, Michigan.

An airshow on the 4th of July. St.Louis, Missouri.


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