exploring the mystery post on May 28, 2013, with little or no fanfare, included an image. What an image it was!*
This unusual photo ignited my obsession for capturing images that increase the value of a post. I'm puzzled why after years and years of ignoring images, only having time for words, I am suddenly hooked on illustrating my posts.
Perhaps the pictograph phenomenon permitted me (forced me) to look at something other than the printed word. In order to launder my clothing I have to decipher icons that would look familiar to the peoples of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.
Each week I go through my Picasa web album containing all the photographs from recent years. It is like a treasure hunt with a steep technological learning curve. Last week, when I found the reflecting pool with frogs that I had taken two years ago in the garden on Michigan State campus, it felt like I won the lotto.
Retrieving images from my phone is still difficult. Ironically, today there will be no image because the perfect one - a pictograph that pictures a dog with leash & says, Dog Relief, a picture I took in an airport a couple of years ago refuses to transfer over to the blog.
Are you adapting to the language-independent new world?
Thanks for exploring the mystery - Nicky Mendenhall
*If you go to the blog and scroll down as far as you can go and then click on older posts and wait and then scroll some more you will eventually come to May 28, 2013, photo.
Friday, June 20, 2014
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Images only with no language. That's a pretty good description of meditation. Try looking at an image without describing it to yourself in words. Maybe it's not meditation it's "frying your brain." I like your idea of going through my Picasa albums to find pictures to meditate on/with.
ReplyDeleteInteresting fluteyogi - I like how you expanded the topic to include meditation.
DeleteLet me know if you use your pictures in Picasa to meditate on - I think I may try that. Thanks for commenting - always appreciated.