Mary oliver: "to pay attention, this is our endless and proper work"

10,000 Days is the online record of 10,000 days of creative work by Dale Keiger, a writer, photographer, and walker living and working in Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, DC. He used to be the editor of Johns Hopkins Magazine. He takes notes. As Marilynne Robinson wrote in Gilead: “This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.”

Author of the forthcoming anthology of profiles, The Man Who Signed the City: Time Spent with Remarkable People.

You will find an online photography gallery and shop at Dale Keiger | Focus. Do visit. Please buy a print.

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Artist's statement: "Coffee and gin go in, words come out."