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... on the meaning of life, 3rd March 2017.
(Thrift shop display window. The reproduction is of a 1978 painting by Norwegian artist Odd Nerdrum (born 1944): 'The murder of Andreas Baader'.)
© Lise Utne
Taken on my walk yesterday. Thanks for your visits and stay blessed:)
I will not be on Flickr much today so will try to catch up tonight:)
Explore #196 on October 31, 2011 - thanks
It was one of those beautiful summer evenings... drinking a couple of local pints with friends at our favourite street-side patio, watching the beautiful people go by. It was mesmerizing.
minolta-16 II subminiature / spy camera
rokkor 22mm f2.8
kodak plus-x 100 16mm (expired 1976)
home development d76
v600 scan
Sometimes I look at the space around me and realize it’s crowded with things I’ve chosen to leave behind. We talk about "letting go" as if it’s a clean break, but it never is. We just curate the ghosts. There are versions of myself I’ve outgrown, mistakes I’ve made, and quiet, heavy longings that don't belong in the light of day - so I keep them tucked in the corners of my life, like shadows I’ve learned to live alongside.
They aren't just memories; they’re the grit that makes me who I am. If I were truly "past" all of it, I wouldn't be me anymore. So I stop trying to fix it or shine a light on it to make it disappear. I just accept that this is part of the architecture now: the parts of me that are still in the dark, still quiet, and still very much mine to hold.
— “The Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaire” (1938), Walter Benjamin (15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940)
Place Jean-Rostand, Paris