Sometimes
they move in slow motion,
as I watch the images
fly through space
so slowly, just one at time.
They float along
like balloons, reflecting
into the soft blueness of earth
in transparency.
I try to pick just the interesting pictures,
conveying an attitude or an idea,
a story, or simplicity it’s self.
Subway train, New York City.
when the open door to a dark smelly metro train looked inviting. Just another ride in the tunnels and on some days you have to move to a different seat or a different car because of the smell. There’s nothing exciting anymore about traveling underground at 55 mph and in the last month my fare has gone from 2.70 to 3.75 for the same trip, the same delays, the same service and I’m still looking at the same tired people, but so are they. We all seem to have the same scars.
A National Disgrace
People coming to America from Europe can’t really believe all the homeless sleeping on the streets of Washington, DC. In the UK they call that sleeping rough, and there are none. In the UK homeless people are given services and a place to sleep.
In the United States we’ve spent over 400 billion dollars on the “Bush” war and for a fraction of that we could get the homeless people off the streets. Doesn’t anyone else find this unbelievable? We are worse than a third world country because we have the money and we do nothing.
The photograph is of a homeless mitigation project. There was a homeless person who slept on this ventilation grate on winter mornings. Instead of helping him, the powers that are, spent money on a fence around the grate and on welding steel pieces to make it uncomfortable to sleep on. It all didn’t matter, the man figured out a way to sleep there. The area is in one of the Washington, DC tourist areas, down the street from Air and Space and other high profile museums.
I vote to not spend anymore money on the war in Iraq until we’ve taken care of those who are sleeping rough in our “modern American cities.”
Looking for another right hand man.
When your right hand man goes missing it’s like being left on the platform waiting for the train. Do you hear, in your head, “Wanted - one good man for a job to last 515 more days.”
After a life time of political campaigns and years on “the stump” when does it stop? When should a politician stand down and eliminate his political adviser to govern and do the job? There is not enough time left to fix all that’s broken, some of it will take decades and still television airtime is being bought and ads are being aired like there is an election to win.
The problem is that the “job”, that is governance, hasn’t happened. There was, and is, one long hard political campaign. When one party has an election machine that works well and they understand that process and don’t seem to have a vision for anything else or this vision is flawed and can’t be debated, they can only do what they know how to do - run campaign ads.
There should be a law prohibiting all political ads, by everyone, when there is no election within 12 months. I’d like to see the leaders lead.