DAY 24 COUNTDOWN TO PANCAKES I took this picture of a Coopers hawk the morning after hurricane Ike. If you think you had a bad night during hurricane Ike. think about being a hawk out in the storm. But look in his eyes. He has not given up. As I got closer and closer to him, he looked like he was ready to attack me. Finally he flapped his wings and about a gallon of water came out of his feathers. He made it up to a limb in a tree and then scowled back at me. Thats what living life is all about! I believe that as a human being it is not possible to discuss life without talking about death. Death frames life like a photograph is framed by the edges. Without edges there is no photograph. The best photograph I have of this juxtaposition between death and life, between black and white, was taken on the skeleton Coast of Namibia. Two jackals are eating a baby seal as the mother screams in anguish. Jackals have to eat to preserve their species and seals must procreate to maintain their species. What a delicate balance, the Yin and the Yang One last thought about Life. As theorist Georges Didl-Huberman writes in his book about four photographs from Auschwitz, “Images do not say the truth but are a fragment of it. The image is neither nothing nor one nor all. I posit that each of our lives is like an image on a photograph, framed by the edges that are like our birth and death. Our lives do not say the truth about humanity but are a fragment of it. Each of our lives means neither nothing nor one nor all. To add real meaning to your life, you need to come and eat some pancakes with us on March 23.
Posted on: Sat, 01 Mar 2014 13:15:17 +0000
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