How deep, how stormy, how blue-sky this image is. A reflection, even now, on the present that is ever apt to change, ever likely to never stay the same. Something is always behind us, something always ahead. Life in mirrors.
I'd like to see blue skies ahead and storm clouds behind but...hey. Life just isn't like that. We can't paint it as we want it. We just live it as it is. Our art is in how we interpret and accept it and what we make of it.
This is me in the mirror, capturing my life at the moment, just outside Santa Rosa in New Mexico.
One for the road.
I'm a sucker for mirror photos. They are always so interesting!
Posted by: Claude | June 24, 2007 at 04:43 AM
I hope you waved as you passed through Amarillo!
Posted by: Panhandle Poet | June 25, 2007 at 09:07 AM
Late comment here...life IS. The old adage about what doesn't kill you makes you stronger...over-rated!! I guess it does make you stronger? We are formed by our past experiences, no doubt, but somethings are just painful and hurt forever...end of story. IT happens. No matter what happens, we have the choice of how we react. But, some of it is in the genes...that is why you see children of drug dealing parents who were shuffled from foster home to foster home, and yet they grow up and become college graduates and respectable citizens. Or, you have kids who are the children of the best parents and raised in loving homes and they grow up to be felons and murderers. Wooo...that got deep... My point is, if in our pea brains, we can get to the point of realizing we have a choice in all situations, and we can choose not to be victims, then maybe we can rise above the hard knocks life gives us. But in the back of my mind...still, I wonder, was I not good enough ? Not good enough to keep a husband from straying; not good enough to deserve to be treated well? So, we trudge on...and try to be Zen...staying in the present; in the now...and enjoying the beauty of the day, the sunshine, the mountains, the sunsets, our families, our pets, our jobs, our hollyhocks, etc.
Posted by: carron hardin | June 25, 2007 at 09:55 AM