December 8, A Rose Ideology

“An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.” H. L. Mencken

There is a boy who I love deeply. His name is LCAT Daniel. He’s young (17), extremely intelligent and idealistic. He’s also quite an athlete. He’s on the wrestling team and watching him wrestle causes me almost physical pain. It looks like his arms are coming out of his socket.

What does that have to do with the photo? I was given these roses as a gift for photographing a friend’s family Christmas photo. Yellow roses are my mother’s favorite and they are becoming mine too.

My wanders – it wanders constantly.

The point is this – I photographed the roses, and I saw the quote, and I thought of Daniel.

And it’s Thursday.