Today is a very heavy day
Nov. 21st, 2025 03:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seeyatI’ve been back at recording my cycling trips and decided to start uploading some of the clips to Facebook. Today, my route to therapy was… heartbreaking. The amount of unhoused people, their cardboard sheets, them eating fast food on benches… and a man with a brand new electric wheelchair/scooter panhandling at a turnaround with his chair just sitting across the street. It clearly couldn’t handle the curbs. I guess the US healthcare system never consider that feature.
I don’t know what I can do. I don’t know what can be done. I’m a photographer, so I considered shooting a photo with my phone. The wide DoF would get the chair, him and the atmosphere… a “decent” photo could find traction on socials.
It’s just heartbreaking. My hesitation is part of that conditioning in me… to keep the suffering silent. Don’t let anyone know the sorry state of our country. …possibly the world.
I want this silence to be LOUD. I want it to be known. I want it to be remembered.
I don’t know what I can do. I don’t know what can be done. I’m a photographer, so I considered shooting a photo with my phone. The wide DoF would get the chair, him and the atmosphere… a “decent” photo could find traction on socials.
It’s just heartbreaking. My hesitation is part of that conditioning in me… to keep the suffering silent. Don’t let anyone know the sorry state of our country. …possibly the world.
I want this silence to be LOUD. I want it to be known. I want it to be remembered.
