Not Suprisingly Suprising

In a moment of randomocity this evening i did a yahoo image search. Now i occationally make things for people and use pictures i find online as inspiration, but this time just wanted to see what popped up. "Death" brings up all sorts of morbid and hideous pictures of just that! DEATH. its dead. Rotting, and sickining, the anti-life. It is also absolutely concrete! Cant be chainged, reversed or re...anything. Cause its done.

While life is just as concrete a subject, the images i got from the search brought me no joy, or laughter, or hope for things living (as you might expect to find in the opposite of death) It seemd just a bit better than death. There was a picture of a tree (quite distorted and uncomfortable, a picture of a lion humping a lioness (and she didnt seem happy about it), there was also (and this is my faverote)a picture of DEATH!!!

Given- the concept of death is much easier to capture on film- i was still wishing that there might be a more hopeful and uplifting image for those crazy people like me who just saw something morbid and wanted to forget the image by replacing it with something new.

Ah! NEW! maybe thats it- "Life" is not "NEW" to anyone who is taking the pictures- in fact, in this culture, life is something we portray ourselves as struggiling through. But why- why fight life, why fight even death cause we have all heard death is only a part of life. So... that means life even has dominion over death. (And God has power over both!- whether you believe in that or not)Too bad no one can take a better picture of it- but again thats cause life manifests itself in so many more ways than death.

Life is living! You breathe, breathe in deep! You feel, feel love, feel passion, feel the papercut- i dont care! just feel something, dont numb out... please

Go day to day. And hey if you are alive take a picture of a child's smile. Capture young life. One of an elderly man reading in the park. Take a picture of a mother weeping. Take a picture of lovers kissing, and a picture of a south american farmer working in the heat of day.
But take the pictures in amaizment- amaized that you do think, and breathe, and reason, and FEEL. And for the sake of all that is good and holy please post your pictures somewhere where yahoo can get a hold of them! That way people dont loose sight of the beauty and mistery of this gift of life. Cause im pretty sure the lion is having fun, but missing the point.