Month: June 2016

A huge concern of mine is when bloggers or news reporters have the presumptive nerve to think an issue that they believe is important, somehow trumps an issue that may concern me. And if I don’t agree with them, I am somehow ignorant, narrow minded, racist, homophobic, xenophobic, or whatever the current phobic mania happens to be.  You’ve seen their headlines in the news or social media.  They look something like this:

“While you were worrying about stale jelly in your donuts, another cricket lost its life because of too many hungry fish in the river.”  “While you were worrying about too many peanuts in your box of Cracker Jacks, a curious cat hurt its paw while chasing a mouse.”  “While you were worrying about a loose thread on your jacket, thousands of angry bees were chased from their hive by a honey loving bear.”

The fictional issues above may be silly, but the real life issues are not.

Why can’t more than one issue concern me?  Who are they to tell me what is an important issue and what isn’t?

I was just listening to Kodachrome by Paul Simon.  It is sad, I think, that film cameras are all but extinct.  Make no mistake, the quality of digital cameras is amazing.  The ability to take hundreds, if not thousands of photos of your subject(s) until you find just the right image, is priceless.  It is especially priceless considering the cost of film, back in the day. But there was something special about loading a Nikon or Cannon with 35mm film and taking photos.  I even experimented with my own darkroom for a while.  It is too bad most Millennials may never know what it is like to wait on your film to be developed, or even to develop your own roll.