Cem_Usakligil
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Amazing shot.
Another way to look at passage, you Cem couldn't miss it.
Well, for once the border is made of flowers! Unusual too…
If only…
Tom this is a wonderful story. Which is very close to the feelings I've had when I saw the scene unfold before me. The feelings of old age and loneliness. The weary traveller with his luggage. I had only one second between seeing the scene and taking the picture on auto pilot mode. The old men was already starting to reach for his bag from which he retrieved a camera and took a picture of the boy.
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That is correct. What was your second thought?Hi, Cem,
Well, my first thought was that the figure on the right is a bronze statue.
Best regards,
Doug
That I should try and get a haircut today, given that tonight is opening night for a play I am in.That is correct. What was your second thought?
My guess was your choice of breakfast.Hi, Cem,
That I should try and get a haircut today, given that tonight is opening night for a play I am in.
Best regards,
Doug
The man on his own reminds me of a dream I have regularly. That in which my old man is returning home but hesitates at the door, not sure if he want to take the next step. It's possible this guy is symbolic of a syndrome we all suffer from time to time. Loneliness and foreboding. All our worldly goods contained in a black suitcase, dragged behind us like a wet blanket; weighty and collecting dirt.
But he is alive at least. Unlike the metal-like figure before him, a model of youth and vigor who only sees bed of flowers beneath his feet. The old man knows the truth. He has lived it. He warns the boy. "Put your shoes on, young man least your feet blister. And the sun scorches your skin. The flowers are temporary. Tomorrow the frost of winter will cut them dry and the path to the past will be obliterated. Youth is as temporary as the blooms. Old age will last until you die. Be sure you can hold the contents of your life in a suitcase otherwise the burden will be too much to carry."
Or he could be waiting for a bus.
No, that is preordained. Today, it being a weekday: breakfast A: turkey sausage patty, half a banana, half a grapefruit, half an orange (sliced), half an apple (sliced), bowl of steel-cut oatmeal with cinnamon and milk. Non-edibles: selected pieces from major newspapers (mostly the New York Times); the local newspaper.My guess was your choice of breakfast.
Thanks so much.Break a leg!
Doug,
Young folk have a huge reserve of health and ability to cope with the excesses of almost any Western over-generous diet on occasion! Your breakfast seems very sensible, but perhaps not optimum for you or I!
sausage patty, Not a great idea, Doug, for the elderly, nitrites as preservative, blood and fat!
half a banana, Great source of potassium if your on diuretics...
. . . quick cement if you have loose stools!
half a grapefruit, A relevant issue with certain medications - inactivates them - look up effect of grapefruit on drugs and see if anything you're on is amongst them!
(half an orange (sliced), half an apple (sliced), bowl of steel-cut oatmeal with cinnamon and milk. And NYT - won't kill you!)
I suggest a handful of non-roasted, unsalted mixed nuts - cashews, walnuts, pecans and almonds . .
and if you like a portion of 1 poached egg
or Greek non- fat yoghurt!
Avoid cereals as they have been heated to an extent that acrylamide forms or else sugar is too rapidly released. Avoid orange and other fruit juices as they give the body an insulin stress test dose of fructose!
Hi, Cem,
No, that is preordained. Today, it being a weekday: breakfast A: turkey sausage patty, half a banana, half a grapefruit, half an orange (sliced), half an apple (sliced), bowl of steel-cut oatmeal with cinnamon and milk. Non-edibles: selected pieces from major newspapers (mostly the New York Times); the local newspaper.
Thanks so much.
More about the play later.
Best regards,
Doug
And what the **** is steel cut oatmeal?
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Please return to the O.P. Topic!
Asher