I have over a period of years deposited my thoughts and some images in two blogs. One is this, about film photography. The other is explained by the title, Everything Else. My motivation for adding the second blog was in part to have a place to put digital photographs. While that division has some logic to it, such an approach can lead to a fragmentation of self-presentation that can be somewhat destructive. My non-photographic blog posts wander through politics, religion, literature, and current events in no particular order, but there are common threads running through it all, and some connect to my film photography.
One such connection I came across recently was an Everything Else blog post, Haiku and Photography, that really seems now like it should be in my film photography blog. That post also seemed a good companion to one about Chaco which is in the photography blog, and which contains some of my own haiku. I suppose one reason the haiku and photography piece ended up where it did was that there are no images to accompany the text.
So, there, I have reconnected some threads with hypertext links. The effort has also got me thinking about how I might blend in some references to the only other form of poetry I have patience for, the Spanish ballads of the 15th and 16th Centuries known as the Romances (and their 20th Century resurrection by García Lorca). Of course, illustrating those is going to be something of a challenge for me, and certainly for readers of my blogs. Maybe some of my flamenco dance shots would work?
So as not to perpetuate a trend toward imageless posts, here is a bit of whimsy from Everything Else:
A fearless bunny
In the Japanese Garden
posed for my cell phone.
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