Close & Closer Shifting Perspective (12MARCH2022 Lens-Artist’s Photo Challenge)

Hello readers, this week’s Lens-Artist challenge invites us to share photos that show close and closer

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I will start with this 100+ year old afghan (made by someone in the Priorhouse family line). We sent to a thrift store last week. It was one of the MANY things my Father-n-law left behind.  The other afghan he had hung onto, of sunflowers, is in this post here. I guess he kept them when his father passed away in the 1990s. 

The reason we did not send the afghans to the thrift store right away (when we took most of the stuff from his apartment) was because I wanted to see if a family member wanted them first. Also, one of the afghans supposedly won an award, was hung in. hall for a while, had wool yarn, etc. However, nobody wanted the afghans (or his art!).  My husband’s aunt said she had enough afghans and said they make nice weighted blankets to use around the fire and encouraged us to keep them. I really did like this bird-themed one here, but we are getting rid of things (not downsizing yet, but headed towards less and less every year). Also, my hubs doesn’t like antiques. Anyhow, when I sent this afghan to the thrift store, I added a note about how it won an award and could be used as a weighted blanket. Oh and side note about the sunflower afghan.  We first we offered that one to a homeless man that lives under the bridge – and he didn’t want it! We also offered him some leftover cases of beer from the apartment and he declined that too. So we gave him five dollars and went on our way to the store.  I mentioned the story to the young college guy working at the store and he said he would like the afghan. So we gave it him. 

CLOSER: I really did love something about the colors and the design of this afghan. And posting about it is a special little way I can remember the beauty (rather than hoarding it in the attic for decades and then giving it away or tossing it). 

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My Father-n-law was also a trumpet player and so when I saw this trumpet street art last week, it reminded me of him. He was a professional trumpet player before he went into insurance.  I need to add that my Father-n-law was not the nicest man (he had a personality disorder and was a productive alcoholic – if that makes sense) – anyhow, he also had some good attributes and his faith really bloomed in the last season of his life. So that was nice.

After he passed away –  I was reminded of how differently we view someone when they are gone. 

Perspective sure shifts – just like this close and closer theme has allowed us to show shifting perspectives. 

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Check out these old irons. Does anyone even iron anymore?  We rarely do…. and if so, it is with a modern iron. 

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Also in keeping with the old theme for this post, there is an old hotel in our area called The Jefferson. I have blogged about it before and on a recent visit, I stood as close as I could to get this photo.

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Ending this post with this shot of an old car. Perhaps not as old as the hotel, the afghan, or the irons, but used up and done.

Closer version of the car.  I just realized that this post seems to also have a theme of rust-colored items – or some nice browns.

 

That rusty inner wheel reminded me (yet again) that EVERYTHING HAS A LIFE SPAN. And when we remember that it can help us shift our perspective. 

And with that in mind, I would like to share some encouragement I red this morning while scrolling the reader. This is another reason why I love blogging -we just never know what folks will be posting and this was morning treat from Chet over at the Built to Lead (BTL) blog in a post called “Simple, Not Easy.”

“The most read post on the BTL blog is this one from 2008. It comes courtesy of Tolstoy and his worthy read titled Family Happiness.

Time is not changing, but many sense they have less.

You and I are not an amalgamation of our successes and fails – we are so much more.

Far too many of us seem to be working better than we’re living.

I hope you enjoy this short snippet.

“I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them…”

Go here to read the rest at the Built to Lead Blog

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• Care to join in with the photo challenge this week?  Go to https://pilotfishblog.com
• Care to read a short story? A Priorhouse short story was featured this month at “Always Write” and  HERE is the link.

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