"To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization."
H.B Stowe
And not a virtue that I am anywhere close to achieving.
This shot is not part of serendipitous visuals, but it was the first time I was present for those city-wide processions that occur when a police officer is killed. They shut down the main roads by my place and I stood on my balcony for over twenty minutes worth of watching car after car after car pass by. The uplifting bit I took inside with me was how much one life can impact the world. Which, after this aggravating work week, was a good pull back into perspective thinking.
To end on a lighter note...this whimsical candle holder was given to me when I left my steady paycheck and launched into graduate school. I did use it as a candle holder that first summer and then when I needed laundromat monies, it amused me to use it as a coin holder. The import of this shot is, that for the first time in it's existence, it is overflowing.
As the saying goes, "a change is as good as a rest." Having change, for once, is a happy thing!
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