| all photos and unattributed text copyright © 2005-2008 by abandonedamerica.org and may not be used or reproduced without prior written consent. all rights reserved. |
| "According to conviction, I am not simply what I am doing now. I am also what I have done, and my conventionally edited version of my past is made to seem almost more the real me than what I am at this moment. For what I am seems so fleeting and intangible, but what I was is fixed and final. It is the firm basis for predictions of what I will be in the future, and so it comes about that I am more closely identified with what no longer exists than with what actually is." - Alan B. Watts |
| fixed and final |
