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| Hold onto this, please London, ON November 2018 This photo originally shared on Instagram |
I've always been one to observe the small things - the graphic on the label of the blue-and-white toque I wore as a child, the detail of the fitting that joins two tubes on my bike, the Hershey Kiss-like shape and color of our dog's nose - and I'm sure I do so as something as a defense mechanism. Because the world can be so overwhelmingly complex, chaotic, and challenging on so many levels that I simply can't cope with everything that's coming at me all at once, and from every direction.
So I stare at car doors - and hats, and bikes, and dogs - instead, because in that simple scene, in that single moment, it's all I need to focus on, and it's all that matters. To me, anyway. Because at the core of it all I'm a pretty simple human being, and I like to boil things down to their simplest components so I can digest them properly.
Looking at my social media feeds of late, it's quite clear my photos have taken a turn for the simple, which I'm guessing is a dead giveaway to the kind of life I'm leading now and the things my family, my wife, my kids, now face. I generally enjoy life in the simple zone, but looking at this visual record of the past couple of months, I find myself wishing the pressure from the outside didn't force me to spend most of my time here.
Perhaps things will ease off soon. Or not. And if they don't, there's always a red car, or a wet-nosed puppy, or a dirty bicycle in the basement to take in.
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Looking for the simple is something I find I do as I age. I think it comes with wisdom and experience...so maybe you are a wise one without knowing.
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