Weekly Photo Challenge: Between Life And Death Is…

“Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

Weekly Photo Challenge: Between Life And Death Is… Movement by land and sea...

Weekly Photo Challenge: Between Life And Death Is… more cars lined up on a narrow street?

What Lens Are You Looking at Life Through? We see the world through different lenses, and even when we look at the same scene, we see different things. Some will say that is the difference between those who see with their eyes and those who see with their entire being. I enjoyed this particular Weekly Photo Challenge: Between so much that I’m taking another look at it… above is a view of the East River; taken from Highline Park. The second is of a narrow street somewhere in France. What do you really see?  Cars between cars? boats between boats? cars lined up on a narrow street somewhere in France?

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” Viktor E. Frankl

Weekly Photo Challenge: Between Life And Death Is… the space where the sky meets the sea

Weekly Photo Challenge: Between Life And Death Is… the choice to cross one of two bridges...

We make choices all the time; some mundane, some mind/shape shifting.  Do we cross the water by foot, by bus, by boat or by swimming across? How we choose to cross will depend on our desires and our level of determination. The river, the body of water in the town in France above, reflects the mood of the sky. Gray, cloudy and still. It is free to move, to create strong currents or waves but it can’t. It is contained by its manmade walls and has been tamed to not act as freely. But we have choices to be whomever we wish to be… unless we too are contained by walls we built in our imagination or walls we allowed others to build around us… We are free. Or if all else fails, there is always the downtown NYC skyline with a choice of bridges between buildings to cross; in the background we see the Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan Bridge. We choose. What do you see?

“More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars – yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments. “ Franklin D. Roosevelt

Weekly Photo Challenge: Between Life And Death Is… memory and devotion...

Weekly Photo Challenge: Between Life And Death Is… memorial markers in Normandy...

When we take time to look around us and take in our surroundings, it can surprise us. We discover colors, shapes, sights and sounds that were obscured by our mental chatter. Our lens on the world shifts from moment to moment and it can be colored by what we see and where we are and, above all, by our mood.  My visit to the American Memorial Burial Cemetery in Normandy was a highly emotional one. We walked through this beautifully manicured entryway, calm and serene, quite the opposite of what lay ahead; stark white markers, crosses identifying the fallen from the World War… memories of the carnage left behind by war and the devotion of those left behind to honor the dead. More below. 😉

“We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.” Voltaire

Weekly Photo Challenge: Between Life And Death Is… a bridge to the other side...

Weekly Photo Challenge: Between Life And Death Is… the pharmacy to help us through the quagmire...

Bridges are important symbols in all religions because they represent the connection between us and the spirit world. Bridges are the gateway to the other side; the balance that separates the living from the dead, the connection between two souls, and even the pathway to repairing or destroying a fractured relationship. We cross personal bridges in our lives every day, and some of us cross physical bridges too. What I like about the photo above is that the bridge connected workers in one building to workers in another. To cross the bridge is to maintain harmony in all things… That is the lens I choose to view this from… Or if all else fails, there is always the pharmacy to help find cures for our fears or our fantasies. What do you see through your lens?   What about you? What did your Between photo(s)look like to you? Was it easy/hard to find the right photos for your examples of Between? Were you drawn to specific examples for the prompt? Do share? Thank you! Happy New Year! 🙂

This post was inspired by a prompt from WP Daily Post: Weekly Photo Challenge: Between… Between. This time of year, we find ourselves in an interesting position of reflecting on the year gone by, as well as anticipating the upcoming year. Share a picture that means between to you And SoulPancake: What Lens Are You Looking at Life Through?

Positive Motivation Tip: Between life and death is everything else, but we get to choose the life we want to live and the lens we will view it through… choose your life carefully and add some rose colored tint to your lens!

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Elizabeth Obih-Frank
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