Observation #18: Every Building Has a Story

I slept in a guest house built in the shadow of the abandoned mill. In the morning hours, I bent my ear to the wind just so, right at the angle of nostalgia, and I heard the histories of the men and women who laid the bricks of that mill. People of another era grinding grain for the community, for themselves. I heard the humming of the the woman whose thee young’uns were waiting for pops to cross the Atlantic after having been holed up in Italy. The whistling of the man between wars who fought off the ghosts with high pitched sounds. The foreman, a devotee of the Baptist church who worked up a good lather through work instead of preaching. The bricks men lay carry their stories. So often we walk on by, deaf to the wind.

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Observation #14: People in Color

Observation #14: Monochrome. Black and white. Sometimes shades of gray make the best photographs. Sometimes, though, we need people in full color.

(This mural in Fayetteville, Arkansas was painted by Octavio Logo. For more on the piece, read this article.)

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Observation #13: New Light for Old Loves

I’ve lived in Fayetteville, Arkansas for eighteen years now, and I’ve passed the old courthouse hundreds, maybe thousands of times. As an attorney, I’ve tried cases there. I’ve attended gatherings there. I’ve photographed it over and over, even used one of those photographs as a sort of icon for a lenten project at church. On Saturday, everything was so gray and quiet, I knew I had to catch my old love in a new light.

Observation #13: It’s possible to fall in love again and again if you appreciate the changing seasons, the shifting shadows, the new light.

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