we are entering interesting times...
So I apologize to myself and those few who read this, about not spending time on this aspect of my persona, it is not that i have not been thinking about this a lot?
I have put my effort to one side to start on my other Blog 365 , most if not all of you would be aware of it in some sense or another..
It is all about that picture and so much more, and most probably relates to a couple fo things I am thinking and were thinking about over time. It has to do with visually observing the things around us, we expect to have a status Quo, we expect a static life and world and surrounds, us as afriKans (yes I went to a justice of the peace yesterday, boy this is a long sub-thread so bear-with me, to have copy of my ID DoCument certified for FICA in South AfriKA, and the JOP asked me to fill in a questionaire and one of the questions was, o yes BTW this was ata free Law clinic which explains some of it, what my race or ethnic type was.. and to be honest i chose African other, Does that make me a lier and a traitor leaving the roots of my should behind me) are now part of one of the worlds great SPora's cant really say Diaspora, think that has more specific meanings. ?Dam that was a long train of thought and had to put down with one breath and should be read as such? This is becoming a little absurdish or abserdist, but to get back to my point. We walk we look we see, sometimes we see, which brings on another point -- go look at this dudes pics, one would imagine he altered the way i look at things a long time ago. But that is a story for another time. To get back to the stream, we carry on with our lives with a lack of urgency, No i am not saying we need to suffer the perils of over anxiety and rushing, urgency is something else. Urgency to live and see and experience within the bounds and confines of our minds and bodies and spirit and cicumstance, there are no limits within those bounds even though that seems oxymoron~ic. It may seem like I am Digressing, but I am not.. The point being you wlak down the roads, or drive or whatever there in your city and along the streets are trees with the most amazing colours and hue's that tomorrow we may not see,,,,
No this is not a doom and gloom, for tomorrow you may Die.. no that could happen to anyone, that is not the thread or intent, but rather that appreciate things within the constraints of the life you lead and have chosen, but appreciate them tot he fullest, mine happens to be a tapestry of rich colours and hues and shades and textures and shapes and the most amazing inane yet interesting things that walk buy on a daily basis. The little things, the mosaic on a floor the shape of a building, tomorrow you may never walk that way again, enjoy, experience and see them..
The images are a celebration of the route i travel through on a daily basis, oft they may seem totally arbitrary, but there is always a reason behind a posting, it is also an attempt at being forced to take more pictures to increase photographic fitness and to allow better expression and develop a clearer identity and style... Something which through the whole uprooting and Spora has tended to be the most unsettling for us.. the apparent lack of identity that we have as immigrants, other than being immigrants and Saffers .. which by nature we are not, by origin we are.. man it is a complicated scenario :-/
That was a silly side rant..
but back to where we are and what we do ..
expect more changes through time, things are moving faster than we can prepare ourselves for, all we know that the event window is moving closer and closer to us. Quicker and quicker and wilder and wilder swings ...
Here i moved from a situation of clear and present danger to one of clear and present other danger? Go figure, but at least it is pretty here and the danger is on a very different way.. Strangely the longer we stay the more we like, the more we miss things, well people more than things. It comes to the fact that we do not realize how much of us is merely a reflection of those who surround us, even those who stand alone, still stand alone from all those that are familiar and are either the reflection of what others are not or are the spaces between the people, filling the gaps, here that disfigured self has no reference or relevance..
So what does this all mean? not sure, I look at somethings i see on the web, some by people I know and some by others I don't know and I am amazed and moved
at times by how others see and express them selves in the simplest ways ..
So my aim for the near future is to express more .. the 365 is a simple and humble start
