I took this photo of the Washington Monument at dusk a couple of years ago from the steps surrounding our nation’s Capitol. Traffic jammed the streets, workers hurried home along the sidewalks, and tourists stopped to listen to their guide. I’ve always liked reflection shots. Reflections reveal a whole other world that is upside down from ours–a mirror world where bad can become good, war can give way to peace, anger can turn to love, pride can dissipate into humility, and selfishness can be replaced by compassionate giving. I pray for a nation where the monuments we treasure are not the evils that are so prevalent; rather they are the mirrors of those evils I believe exist in the depths of our being.
