Yes, it’s only a few days old and I’m ready to move on. I have no patience for its fickleness. There is too much uncertainty in my world without Spring flaunting it’s unpredictable weather. Uncertainty creates anxiety. I don’t need …
Tag: photography
“You’re Thinking Too Hard!”
A scolding phrase often employed by my father to emphasize when I was missing his obvious, at least in his own estimation, point. Not fond memories, but still memories. Absent the belittlement, the phrase is not without its purpose. …
tan·gent ˈtanjənt/Submit noun 1. a straight line or plane that touches a curve or curved surface at a point, but if extended does not cross it at that point. 2. a completely different line of thought or action.
I like tangents. Mostly thought tangents. They keep conversations interesting. Conversations without angles and curves tend to bore. The same might be said for photographs. Angles and balances in photographs create eye interest or brain interest. Some say photography is …
Trinkets Trash and Artifacts
For the past few weeks I was thinking about what we leave behind when we die if we are not artists or authors or architects. Memories inside others until they too leave. Some governmental records: birth certificate, death certificate, certain …
Rotting Linseed Oil Inspires Yellow Rain Gear
I distract myself from heavy thoughts by wondering about things like, Why are raincoats yellow? It’s been raining for two days. A steady pouring. Too much gloom surrounding everything. Surrounding me. My daughter, at ten, has an innate fashion sense. She …
Sorta In Defense of Selfies
The selfie bears much criticism for our over infatuation with ourselves. An exclamation point to our self-absorbed lives turborized by social media. We live, it is said, in an age of self-promotion and self-congratulations that makes past despots look timid …
Not Walking A Comet
Human’s like routines. Consistent patterns of repetitive behavior that we do not need to think about. Advice is often given that someone feeling bored or unhappy with their present life position should change their routine. Energize themselves by breaking from …
Inside/Outside The Beltway
Working in D.C. and living inside the beltway I am constantly reminded of this distinction, which is more a state of mind then its geographic designation. Inside the beltway it is easy to get caught up in the daily politics …
Sasquatch From My Stoop
Rain, slick bricks, walking boot, crutches, camera. Fall and (re)injure yourself under such circumstances and you will be ridiculed and shamed. Maybe even treatment withheld. Here, I could lie and claim I did not even contemplate taking a walk under …
The Cross
What other symbol is as universally understood among different cultures, nationalities, languages? Whether Christian or not, whether religious or not, its symbolism is immense. A simple geometric shape with the power to comfort, console, inspire. A simple envoy carrying immense …