July 24, 2015
(This is part of a 365 project
during my 70th year where I write and illustrate a blog on each
day’s gift.)
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| Mannequins at Second Chance in Baltimore |
Things and actions are propelled by human connections full of concern, creativity and whimsy. Whatever I observe, I always think
about the people behind them.
Today I saw a get-well card passed around the table
for Mike, a member of the Aging Newspapermen’s Club that meets at Roman’s every
Friday for lunch. Everyone signed the card with concern for Mike, a regular who
recently was hospitalized for a serious fall. Another regular, Jim, who had
visited him at rehab just before lunch, showed a photo he had taken of Mike
with his middle finger raised. I admire Mike’s spunk as he deals with ten
broken ribs and other injuries from the fall—all after yet other serious health
problems. The man behind the finger has an exceptional attitude that will get
him through this.
On the way home from lunch, David and I stopped at
Second Chance, a huge store founded with the purpose of creating employment and training
for Baltimore city residents who have employment challenges. The warehouse, a
most interesting place, gathers usable items from demolition projects and
offers them for resale in an effort to address environmental issues. We saw remarkable
scale architectural models of houses that David and I envisioned as part of a
miniature train ride setting for children. Along a wall in another section, I
saw a row of headless mannequins posed artistically and I wondered about the person who
had such a sense of whimsy to arrange them this way. The mannequins could have
been displayed thoughtlessly as a line of objects but someone decided to pose
each one as if she had a personality.
Then we stopped at the Horseshoe Casino and saw the
card architecture by Bryan Berg who has created, with utmost patience and
steadiness, Baltimore and Washington landmarks out of playing cards. I could not look at the
card city without thinking about the human hands that had constructed it.
It is the human connection that creates an extra
dimension to all things that I experience.
My
gift today is the human-object connection.
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More information on places mentioned:
http://www.secondchanceinc.org/
http://welcometobaltimorehon.com/romans-place
> DAY 228 Transient Beauty
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