Drudgery or Discovery

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How do we face each day? What determines outlook? Is it personality or lived experience that colours perspective?

Current circumstances have limited my range of activities, including those I do to distract myself. I forgive myself for any feelings of drudgery, and yet, despite ego’s self-pity, I find my natural curiosity pokes it nose into silent moments, and insists on discovery.

Found this old photograph (filtered) of our local quarry. The setting changes only with the seasons, and for years I viewed this photo as a snapshot of stagnation and yet, it has intrigued me. There is something in the sharp edges of the reflection that speaks to my soul, reminds me that what lies beneath (or within) has value.

What do you see?

(Image my own)

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Permission to write, paint, and imagine are the gifts I gave myself when chronic illness hit - a fair exchange: being for doing. Relevance is an attitude. Humour essential.

23 thoughts on “Drudgery or Discovery”

  8. Your photo almost looks like a painting. I’ve always loved images of reflections in water. Something other-worldly about them, like there’s world beneath or beyond this one that holds us. A sense of twoness, like we are larger or greater than a single thing can contain. What you say about the sharp edges is true too, a kind of clarity beyond what we see and know. Speaks to my soul too.

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