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Angry voices, unbridled venom.
Wired (and wireless) pokes and jabs targeting a multitude of faceless entities.
Ugliness leaching outward, spreading like a stain

On humanity.

Or rather, what we once knew as

  • Humanity
  • Community
  • Respect
  • Tolerance
  • Patriotism
  • The American Way

We are now a nation no longer united but rather horribly, inextricably divided.

Talking heads and a 24/7 vomitude of news and commentary
Twisting ‘freedom’ to spew hate
And incite fear, violence and an uneasy division

Of our fellow compatriots, instilling disrespect and incivility far and wide.

What’s our way forward? No answers here.
Sadly, this very medium
While a powerful tool for good
Still contributes to this implosion of ill-will.

I’m hopeful, however, that we can come together and find a way. United we stand and, truly, divided we WILL fall.

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Perched atop a favorite framed photo of my father is one of the roses we collected from his casket graveside. Yikes! Looks like I need to do some serious dusting. Insert chagrined emoticon here…

Daddy. I sure love and miss you!

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From a vertical perspective, the bottom half to 2/3’s of this photo is dark with the silhouette of the tree tops completing the upper third of the space. The photograph also serves to illustrate the Rule of Thirds with the two tree tops occupying the upper left third of the ‘grid’.

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I like the distribution of the weight of the fence posts as they run somewhat diagonally throughout the image.

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This tree arches gracefully to position itself into various thirds of the frame.

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Husband standing tall in the bottom left of the frame with the wooden bridge spanning (not quite) toward the upper right of the photo.

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This rusty, old bridge takes up most of the image with the black and yellow diagonal road sign signaling a clear ‘stop’ to visually yield two-thirds of the image to the left and a kind of dead space to the right.

Cee’s Compose Yourself Photo Challenge: Week 9 Rule of Thirds Introduction