Fall is such a grand time of year. I find it wonderful that in those weeks when death is upon them, the leaves show their most spectacular self. In the aging years of beautiful people, the same phenomenon often occurs. While we are so busy trying to make something of ourselves and blending in to our world, many of our elders have learned that it’s okay to be different from everyone else; it’s good to live out their own colors and show off their individuality. It’s a shame it takes us so long to learn these lessons and get to the point where we lose our self-conciousness enough to embrace our rainbow of colors.
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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.
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