12/26/14
THE QUIET ART OF READING from Tattered and Lost
Now that Christmas has passed, I can be a bit more vocal about my latest creation since those who received it as a gift won't have had their surprise taken away by a post.
Tattered and Lost: The Quiet Art of Reading is a book that came about during a dinner conversation when reading became the topic of discussion. Since the future looks questionable for finding vintage snapshots with the advent of everything being digital, and so few people getting actual prints made, I wondered what would happen to images of people reading actual printed material. Will the future be just shots of people staring at antiseptic digital devices? Will photos of people actually holding printed material become a novelty? The hunt was on for a new category; I do so love categories. I love to immerse myself in a subject. This was a really joyous one to collect with most photos from the U. S., but Germany, France, England, and Japan are also represented.
If you love reading, appreciate the time you spend reading, and recognize that there is a certain beauty in the act of reading, then I think you'll enjoy the vernacular photographs in this book.
The book is available at Amazon and CreateSpace.
12/24/14
12/23/14
SEASON'S GREETINGS while waiting for Santa
From Tattered and Lost: The Quiet Art of Reading available at Amazon
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WAITING for Santa
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12/22/14
Now THIS IS A HAPPY KID with Santa
Eddy is long forgotten, replaced by this smiling kid with a full set of teeth.
I'm going out on a limb here, but I believe that this child grew up to be a weatherman in Phoenix. Each day he'd deliver the weather with the same smile:
Today it was HOT in Phoenix. Tomorrow it will be HOT in Phoenix. Next Thursday it will be HOT in Phoenix. In fact, I'm betting a month from now it's going to be HOT in Phoenix! This is Sam Lewis with the weather, back to you Janice and Jim.And maybe it's just me, but does this Santa look like someone in witness protection?
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12/21/14
Oh, eddy, Eddy, EDDY!
It will all be over soon. Take your candy cane from the nice man and move along. NEXT!
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12/19/14
HOME for Christmas
I will be home for Christmas. A year in which two close family members died, and the news of a distant cousin's death came on Thursday.
Since my mother's death Christmas has become a difficult time each year. She passed on December 23rd, forever changing how I celebrate.
This photo drew me in as soon as I saw it because it reminded me of the table setting at my maternal grandparent's home in Pennsylvania, including the bird cages. I look at it and I'm a little girl again, excited to be sitting at the table with everyone.
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But this table is someone else's memory. The note on the bottom of the photo says a lot:
Christmas 1945 • Bill home from warThere's a lot to think about with this shot, no matter how simple it appears. Was this Bill's family home? Or was it the home he shared with his wife? Did Bill return from the war physically and mentally unscathed?
There are a lot of dinner tables that will be celebrating returned loved ones on Thursday. People broken by war sitting amongst family who now feel like strangers. Awkward conversations with close friends whose lives moved in different directions. Memories of the horrors they've seen and unable or unwilling to share those memories with those who stayed home. Momentary vacant stares, searching for a memory, good or bad, that somehow makes sense of why they are seated at the table.
So here's to the families who must struggle to find Christmas each year because of the cards they were dealt in life. Some of us have to search a little harder to find meaning in the holidays, sometimes time is all we have to work with. And sometimes time is enough.
This is my holiday contribution to Sepia Saturday.
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