At this point in my life I don’t really need nor require any affirmation from others to make me feel good about what I think or what I believe. To quote Mick “I’m no schoolboy, but I know what I like.”
That said however, it is always a nice thing to find some validation or seconding of your opinion or take on something. This happened just yesterday when I saw the following letter in the Free For All section of the Washington Post:
Mr. Duggan’s letter made me smile too because I had seen that photo, liked it and copied it onto my clipboard to perhaps use in a future blogpost. Here is how the full photo appeared in the 4 October issue of the Post:
Unlike Mr. Duggan however, I did not think about the photo as a footnote to the previous 31 pages of bad news, (I suspect that’s because he was reading a paper copy while I was doing a digital read.) In fact, instead of smiling because the photo represented some sort of relief or pause to all the bad news preceding it, the photo conveyed to me a sinister, more ominous vibe completely at one with the previous bad news. Something about the two lights looking like eyes peering out of a dark hood made the photo appear a little more spooky and unsettling to me.
