Ruined
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Ahah! It’s a nice feeling when I happen to finish something rather than just starting another project and throwing it in with the rest of the unfinished projects. While this series isn’t done yet, it’s coming near the end of the quarter. Thus, the end of consistent head aches, over strained eyes, and wierd eating patterns. But who knows I might extend the project back into the personal realm. Anyways, thanks Zach for modeling in this one. Sorry about your house…
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Jim you have captured an emotion of shock, frustation, a feeling of “all my hard work up in flames” and what now? .. Very interesting picture.
Thought you might enjoy this comment from Michelle Poluikus after she saw your website: “You and Dave sure raised some very talented boys that really see the world outside the box. I wonder where they might have picked that up from? I love Jim’s work!”
Hi, cool post. I have been wondering about this topic,so thanks for writing.
September 23, 2009
There are no jobs.
Businesses are going under.
Many families have lost their homes. Many more will before this is over.
Embarrassed husbands, disappointed wives trying to cover up so that the children won’t see the differences. Hoping the money will start to flow soon.
I thought because I never had a home or a business I was in the green starting out.
Finally everyone would know what life was like for the rest of us.
It would teach all not to be so spoiled, not to take things for granted.
Nothing like a good learning lesson.
Besides, things had always been this way for me.
I didn’t know anything other than “economic crisis“. (I have yet to see any truly hungry, unbathed children on the road side day after day right?)
Now everyone was on mmmy turf.
Then, there I was looking in the mirror at a woman with a degenerative disease. Over night, my legs stopped working, I lost my job, I am loosing the home I like to call my body. I am having a new kind of economy crisis.
Suddenly, it started to hurt.
I started to feel embarrassed. I started trying to cover up so that my son wouldn’t notice the difference between me and the other mommies.
I started to see the husbands,
I started to see the wives,
I started to see the children and stopped looking and the crisis.
Now we are truly on the same turf.
Can’t wait ‘til the money starts to flow.
Thank you for inspiring me with your photography. I haven’t written in years. This is my first piece and it was your photo that did it.
Your eyes are so honest!
“But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.” The Bible
Thanks Kelly. I really appreciate the poem. It really connects with the images in a way I didn’t initially realize. Well done