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Circumstances can feel overwhelming at times. Days can truly be hard. Suffering is a reality for many of us. Grief comes in waves and some of those waves knock us down. Some days or even months, we feel beat up and knocked down. It can feel hard to get back up. What if I fall again? It may feel impossible to keep going. I know many who have felt this way and myself included. Living with a chronic disease, this can far too often become my mental state if I lose perspective of what is true. Take heart, for there is light at the end of the tunnel. There is still hope. For victory is ours even though many days we feel as if we are losing. We stand in the victory of the conquering Lion! One day, our mourning will be turned into dancing and our sorrow to joy!
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This week's theme is Forced Perspective. I must admit I've struggled with this one as the ideas I was coming up with mostly required the help of someone else or a magic wand! I thought about trying to photoshop it but thought that that was not in the spirit of the challenge.
Here we have two coins of different value and size the smaller one is in front of the larger one but hopefully looks bigger than it. I have included a small pic of them side by side so that you can see the difference. Cropped and played with the colours in the original.
For years I was smitten with the notion of perspective. I measured up just about everyone with "what it's like to be in their shoes". I always found that it aided my attempts at compassion and understanding.
I can feel a desire to go off and root out a copy of Desiderata coming on!
View from the top of Monte Brè
Lugano, Switzerland
December 2024
"Here is the dream: I see that I am lying in bed. Feeling neither good nor bad, I am lying on my back. But I begin to wonder whether it is a good thing for me to be lying there; and it seems to me that there is something wrong with my legs; whether they are too short or uneven, I do not know, but there is something awkward about them. As I start to move my legs, I begin to wonder how and on what I am lying, something that up till now had not entered my mind. Looking about my bed, I see that I am lying on some cords woven together and attached to the sides of the bed. My heels are resting on one of the cords and my lower legs on another in an uncomfortable way.
Somehow I know that these cords can be shifted. Moving one leg, I push away the furthest cord. It seems to me that it will be more comfortable that way. But I have pushed it too far away; I try to catch it, but this movement causes another cord to slip out from under my legs, leaving them hanging down. I rearrange my whole body, quite certain I will be settled now; but this movement causes still other cords to shift and slip out from under me, and I see that the whole situation is getting worse: the whole lower part of my body is sinking and hanging down, and my feet are not touching the ground. I am supported only along the upper part of my back, and for some reason I begin to feel not only uncomfortable but terrified. Only now do I ask myself what had not yet occurred to me: where am I and what am I lying on? I begin to look around, and the first place I look is down toward where my body is dangling, in the direction where I feel I must soon fall. I look below, and I cannot believe my eyes. I am resting on a height such as I could never have imagined, a height altogether unlike that of the highest tower or mountain.
I cannot even tell whether I can see anything down below in the bottomless depths of the abyss over which I am hanging and into which I am drawn. My heart stops, and I am overcome with horror. It is horrible to look down there. I feel that if I look down, I will immediately slip from the last cord and perish. I do not look, yet not looking is worse, for now I am thinking about what will happen to me as soon as the last cord breaks. I feel that I am losing the last ounce of my strength from sheer terror and that my back is slowly sinking lower and lower. Another instant and I shall break away. And then a thought occurs to me: this cannot be real. It is just a dream. I will wake up. I try to wake up, but I cannot. ‘What am I to do, what am I to do?’ I ask myself, looking up.
Above me there is also an abyss. I gaze into this abyss of sky and try to forget about the one below, and I actually do forget. The infinity below repels and horrifies me; the infinity above attracts me and gives me strength. Thus I am hanging over the abyss suspended by the last of the cords that have not yet slipped out from under me. I know I am hanging there, but I am only looking upward, and my terror passes. As it happens in a dream, a voice is saying, ‘Mark this, this is it!’ I gaze deeper and deeper into the infinity above me, and I seem to grow calm. I recall everything that has happened, and I remember how it all came about: how I moved my legs, how I was dangling there, the horror that came over me, and how I was saved from the horror by looking up. And I ask myself, ‘Well, am I still hanging here?’
And as soon as I glance around, I feel with my whole body a support that is holding me up. I can see that I am no longer dangling or falling but am firmly supported. I ask myself how I am being supported; I touch myself, look around, and see that there is a single cord underneath the centre of my body, that when I look up I am lying on it firmly balanced, and that it alone has supported me all along. As it happens in a dream, the mechanism by which I am supported seems quite natural, understandable, and beyond doubt, in spite of the fact that when I am awake the mechanism is completely incomprehensible. In my sleep I am even astonished that I had not understood this before. It seems that there is a pillar beside me and that there is no doubt of the solidity of the pillar, even though it has nothing to stand on. The cord is somehow very cleverly yet very simply attached to the pillar, leading out from it, and if you place the middle of your body on the cord and look up, there cannot even be a question of falling. All this was clear to me, and I was glad and at peace. Then it is as if someone is saying to me, ‘See that you remember.’
And I awoke."
Leo Tolstoy, Confession
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"Perspective vs. Reality:" The tall pines in the foreground appear to falsely miniaturize the mountain peak in the distance, which actually happens to be the second tallest peak in our state.
Tulip Perspective by Martijn van der Nat. Taken in Lisse, the Netherlands.ISO 200, 1/15th sec. f/2.8, 16 mm. This image is features in my blog www.martijnvandernat.nl/the-delicate-sound-of-tulips/
" Sometimes we may ask God for
success, and He gives us physical and
mental stamina. We might plead for
prosperity, and we receive enlarged
perspective and increased patience, or
we petition for growth and are blessed
with the gift of grace. He may bestow
upon us conviction and confidence as
we strive to achieve worthy goals."
David A. Bednar
I created Abstract: Enlarged Perspective
using Photoshop Elements 8.
This is the first B&W image that
I post. I hope that you all enjoy it
as much as I did creating it my friends.
Please receive my deep gratitude
for sharing your wonderful photographs
and for stopping by to appreciate mine.
May you all have a peaceful day!
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