What you see may not align with your initial impressions. **** I used the city Charlottesville and should have said Charleston near the end of my podcast.
I stopped by the Marietta Museum of History yesterday to record a reading of a children's book commemorating Juneteenth (Coming to theatres soon)
Memories of my Grandfather (Big Daddy) and things I have learned about him through Family Tree Research.
The P-38, (also called a John Wayne) was developed in 1942, is a small can opener that was issued in the canned field rations of the United States Armed Forces.
You first notice the enormity of it, how it begins but there is really no end that the eyes can see. You want to acknowledge the beauty but the pain is overwhelming.
The concept of an essential worker has been front and center throughout this crisis and to think, this was their lot in life prior to the Covid-19 pandemic. They are usually invisible or in harsher terms dismissed, judged and written off.
Care, empathy, concern and love are most effective when our presence can gather physical vibes that can be contagious in a positive way. We can start today in our orb of community with a simple gesture of a wave, a hello and a smile.
The teaching of African enslavement is void of telling the stories of a normal community of families who live their lives as normal as any other community around the world. They were not uncivilized people who needed religion and saving.
Nature can be considered Street Photography too, keep your eyes and heart open.