Picture Notes

Time for another flower photograph. I like unexpected images.

I wonder why people don’t listen. I think everyone’s life would be better if we just took the time to listen to each other. There seems to be a lot of important information that we are missing, some of which is about how we do our jobs, how to live our lives, what we should believe in and it directly effects the quality of our lives. I’m make this mistake as often as the next person but I’m trying to become aware, I’m not satisfied with being in my own bubble, so to speak.

I wonder if we really do respond to people based on a person’s feelings about us that we’ve picked up with visual clues, and not necessarily what they are saying. “Trust your gut, it’s correct” - I like that. I don’t think my gut has ever been wrong but my head has put me into some awkward situations.

Accountability and Transparency, where have we heard those words?

Trust is a very odd thing, isn’t it? Once it’s broken, like this window, it can’t really be repaired, only replaced and the memory of the broken window will last for a long time. I’m not sure how broken trust as a concept can be made visual, but thought this was a good start. Broken trust brings up larger issues and reminds me of this fable of the Scorpion and the Frog.  As an optimist I think the fable makes a strong argument for going outside of our nature, for positive change.

I found this cracked window at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC. I don’t know why the window was broken, it might have been because the building is round and supported on pilings and has many visitors.