Arrived in New Orleans Late last night. I have a very busy week ahead but I intend to get loads out of the way so I can enjoy the weekend. I will be working Sunday morning but will get out early and head for town Saturday is free.
I expect to be able to get some nice pictures and spend a bit of quality time with my own company. I havent had the opportunity for such a long time to just roam around letting whatever catches my eye direct my day.
I sometimes go to second hand markets or car boot sales and find I burn a whole day looking through things that are considered useless or nearly so by others and really enjoy finding something interesting that I can take home and make use of. You often find things that probably belonged to some member of a family long dead and discarded by their heirs. It is sometimes in these once converted artefacts that I find the most interest.
The last time I did this I found some photographs of a prison camp from the First World War, it was interesting because I had just finished reading One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Solzhenitsyn. The contrast in the photographic record and those of the book where immense something had clearly happened to the psyche of those living upon the European continent between the wars that subtracted terribly from their humanity.
It appears we forgot that to maintain any shred of what it is we aspire to in forming society, even when we feel it necessary to go to war to defend what we hold precious that when we meet our foes unarmed and venerable, they are as we are in need of being treated with dignity.
Bit heavy for 05.52 am but hay ho thats the way it is.
I expect to be able to get some nice pictures and spend a bit of quality time with my own company. I havent had the opportunity for such a long time to just roam around letting whatever catches my eye direct my day.
I sometimes go to second hand markets or car boot sales and find I burn a whole day looking through things that are considered useless or nearly so by others and really enjoy finding something interesting that I can take home and make use of. You often find things that probably belonged to some member of a family long dead and discarded by their heirs. It is sometimes in these once converted artefacts that I find the most interest.
The last time I did this I found some photographs of a prison camp from the First World War, it was interesting because I had just finished reading One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Solzhenitsyn. The contrast in the photographic record and those of the book where immense something had clearly happened to the psyche of those living upon the European continent between the wars that subtracted terribly from their humanity.
It appears we forgot that to maintain any shred of what it is we aspire to in forming society, even when we feel it necessary to go to war to defend what we hold precious that when we meet our foes unarmed and venerable, they are as we are in need of being treated with dignity.
Bit heavy for 05.52 am but hay ho thats the way it is.
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On a norm, I totally feel more sorry for all the brainwashed sheep and their inability to open their eyes and take control of their own lives instead of being herded! Which i guess, kinda made it worse when it bothered me! I was just taught that when someone is eating you don't stare at them! It amazes me that people that have the audacity to stare at me and think to themselves how "strange" i am don't have the manners of a billy goat!
But today is a new day, itz rainy and chilly outside (which i think is making me feel a little better, reminds me of Amsterdam), and i'm ready to face the world!
Thank you again for such kind words this morning, they put a smile on my face!