I am reading a book now that encourages writers to pen something down every day – it could be 15 mins of writing, it could be 5 pages in a lined notebook.
I figured since I’m paying for this site (and it ain’t cheap), I’d publish a post everyday.
Apologies in advance to the 4-5 people who have signed up to receive every new post in their inbox – I’m not sure how you did it anyway! I’ve been trying to figure out how to let people email-subscribe, but the various googled ways hadn’t worked out so far.
Anyhow, this is a post I’ve been meaning to write for weeks if not months.
It’s premised on this photo, which I took as a reflex, a quick shot which turned out to be one I’m really pleased with.
How would you caption it?
I had sent it to my family with the text of “Sunrise oblivion”.
There it was, the most gorgeous rays spreading across the sky like an angel’s flight path, and these people were just absorbed in their tiny digital pixels.
A tragedy if there ever was one. And a reflection of so many instances in life today. My heart breaks every time I see a child calling out to, or tugging the sleeve of a parent who ignores them, eyes fixed squarely on a hard glassy screen instead of the cherubic face of the child they gave life to.
Of course I have been guilty of the same, which is what makes it all the more painful.
In the weeks and months ahead, I captured similar scenes, but none with as dramatic a tapestry as the first.
Different people, same gaze.
And most recently.
There are some in the same carriage who do cast their eyes onto the beauty of the dawn, some after wondering what I am photographing, others who happened to stand at the window and chanced upon looking up from their devices.
It is like someone wrote us the most moving love letter, but it was left unopened. Or cast aside to languish unseen.
May I never get so numb. May I always look with awe, wonder and slightly misty eyes, at the artistry that sweeps across the expanse like this.
Even as I hurtle down a track in a metal canister with the rest and the best of us, in all our flawed humanity.
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