It’s Friday night and an almost-full moon. I would be going outside to photograph it, except that it’s cold and dark and damp outside and I am a bit of a weenie.¹ I have neglected to put up any new work on here and I think it’s quite a shame, for two reasons:

1. New blog posts drive up the traffic, and more traffic signals to the world that I am a very important person.

2. I have missed putting up new work.

Reason one is a bit of a laugh, except that I do appreciate the traffic. Thank you for reading. I mean it.

Reason two is due to inner paralysis, which is something I am working on. I am giving myself a bit of occupational therapy of the mind, shall we say. The therapy goes like this–

Me: Post the pictures!

Surly me: No. Why bother?

Me: Because.

Surly me: BECAUSE WHY.

Me: Because.²

If I don’t post, someone else will. If I don’t put things out there, others will. I will admire their work while secretly thinking that, meh, I could have done better; have done better; or well, wish I could do better and might have, if I’d only gotten started.

It’s hard work, prying oneself loose of the scales that protect one’s ego. But a good exfoliation is appropriate and therapeutic every once in a while. And hence, a photo of a lovely bathroom to carry that image through, just for you.³

 

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¹ I would like to point out that I am also the weenie who took pictures of a moon eclipse during a particularly cold and bitter December, and I had no gloves on. That’s a bit of perspective for you, kids.

² Because. Because it’s just a photograph. Because art is subjective. Because if you don’t, someone else will. Because doing is braver than not doing. Because not doing is dying a little bit. Because we are dying a little bit all the time anyway.

³ If I’d known I was going to feature a picture of a bathroom before starting the post, I would have definitely played up a whole lot more all the references to a full moon in the beginning, because that is the kind of classy dame I am.

24 May This entry was published on May 24, 2013 at 11:33 pm. It’s filed under Photoblogging, Randomata, Shameless Self-Promotion, Uncategorized and tagged antique, bathroom, beautiful, Billy Reid, decor, doing, not doing, philosophy, photo shoot, photography, surly. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.