To be faire, I think we're all idiots!
This photograph reminds me that the framing of a thing really does change how we perceive something. I’ve walked by this tree countless times over the last decade and never once did this part of it come into focus. I framed what I saw, but will leave you to your own thoughts on this framing.
There is no mystery to me why “the West” is losing its competitive edge. Between universities that see students as asses in seats with a pay checks for faces and HR departments that never see the human in the resource, how could we not. One day someone will have to explain to me why it…
After careful consideration, I have decided that I definitively do not like going to the grocery store anymore. I am aware of how spoiled that sounds. I should be thankful for the ease with which I can find nutrients for my body. I should be thankful for the variety that is overwhelmingly available to me….
The last few years, we’ve had more cloudy days than not in my tiny bubble in the world. Judging from the quantity and variety of mushrooms, it seems that, coupled with an elevated number of dead or dying trees, you get a paradise for these little fungi. Because they are everywhere lately, I’m becoming moderately…
I’m not an architect. I do not manage any buildings. Essentially I am no expert in the business of building or maintaining buildings so I couldn’t say for sure that the floating ceiling tile re-purposing shown here was not done by an architect. I can, however, say with certitude that somewhere along the line someone…
It may be true that you can never go home again, but it is also true that you cannot change from whence you came. Our exposure to “culture” and “cultures” is completely dictated by the physical space we inhabit and the people that share that space with us. As best as I can tell, the…
When I walk now, I have a tendency to keep my head down. I don’t mean this in a humble sort of way. It was, for a long time, a practical thing. The arthritis made me weaker and off balance. Tripping over an unseen obstacle could result in a fall, a fall for which I…
Facial features appear on toast, in the grain of a wooden door, even in tea leaves left after a soothing afternoon’s drink. Are we seeing them, or are they seeing us? Some thoughts are just plain fun.
I spend so much of my time in a world of anger, frustration and selfishness, it is notable when I have a moment of reprieve from it. As I have a tendency to seek nature for that reprieve and the source of the need so frequently comes from people, it is notable when a loving…
Sometimes it takes so very little to make for a good day. I wish I could remember that more often. It is so easy to get wrapped up in the trappings of life that I forget the real things in my life. The real world, as it turns out, feels more real than it is. …