My son Patrick has posted some photos he has titled: Stories that caught my eye strolling through Edinburgh.If you are willing, go to http://patrickselfvisuals.blogspot.com/2010/07/edinburgh-city.html and look at the pictures. Notice the stories your mind comes up with as you look at the pictures. See if you can look at the pictures without creating a story about the people and places. When most of us look at other humans, our mind gets busy creating a story. If you watch your mind during the day, you may also notice it is busy creating stories about most of what you do (mine is telling me a number of stories about your response as you read this post).
This is a wonderful property of our minds - but it can be a problem if we don't recognise the stories for what they are - just stories, often based much more on conjecture than actual, observable fact. When we get fused with our stories, treating them as true and important, we can get ourselves into a mess.
Enjoy the stories but hold them lightly.
What beautiful photos and commentary.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite is the one where the woman plays the accordian. Yes, I did make up a story to go with the photo and it was one of sadness and lonliness mixed triumph. But...it's only a story...
Your son is incredibly talented Rachel. I only dream of taking photos like those.
ReplyDeleteAmazing.
Thanks Dan,
ReplyDeleteI will pass on your compliment. Pat is so passionate about photography - it is great when he gets a positive response
And thank you Judy too!
ReplyDeleteI love your 'story'