I photographed this from inside a cafe. The man selling ice-cream – how old do you think he is? A teenager maybe? It’s probably not his business. He is standing on a piece of wood to give sufficient height. He is wearing a plastic glove so he doesn’t spread germs to the products, but that is not going to work because he is resting his hand on the awning. He is standing on one leg to relieve the strain of standing for hours.
Uncharted Territories
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He is interested in a lot of things about the future and about uncharted territories.
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Thinking about those uncharted territories, when it comes down to it, we really have few ways to consider the future.
In one picture we are the growing tip of the universe, so to speak. And when seen against the endless cosmos we are not very important except to ourselves .
In another view, we are in the palm of the nurturing hand of destiny, safe even when it doesn’t seem like that.
And somehow boredom exemplified by standing on a piece of wood for hours waiting for customers, seems a poor way to step into uncharted territories.
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