Turning our backs on each other because we have different visions or viewpoints solves nothing. We have, unfortunately, become a nation of disassociation and the separation seems to get larger every day. Hard to reconcile anything if you can't even look at each other directly.
These two chairs were outside the Maynard Ecology Center where we had begun our contemplative stroll around the Fresh Pond recently. I'd come back a bit early to await the other participants (since, with their field journals in hand, I wanted them to engaged the landscape in a solitary fashion). As I approached, in the late afternoon light, these chairs fairly screamed at me.
Metaphors are all around us, everyday and in every place we pass. Most we simply walk by but some refuse to be ignored. When you practice contemplative photography for any length of time, these metaphors become more and more insistent. Now, if we could just get our friends down in Washington to turn their chairs towards each other for a change.....
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I love evocative photos like this one. So simple, yet it says so much on so many levels. You inspire me to be more aware, listening more deeply...
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