Indian River Marina: A Melancholy Metaphor

 

“No, you don't shoot things. You capture them. Photography means painting with light. And that's what you do. You paint a picture only by adding light to the things you see.” - Katja Michael


    It's astonishing the number of massacres using firearms there have been since the despicable racist attack at a grocery store in my hometown of Buffalo. I can't include them all here since there's too many.

    Everyone is aware and sickened by the attack at the elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, but there were also people shot in Philadelphia by a man on a mountain bike, six shot in Alabama at a graduation party, a mother and her three young children were shot and killed by the mother's step-father in Michigan, six people were shot near the Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga, four people were shot in Colorado Springs, Colorado, four people were shot and one of them killed in a shooting in Fresno, California, four people were shot at a house party in Malabar, Florida, five people were shot in Chicago's Garfield Park, eight people were shot and one of them killed at a Memorial Day festival in Taft, Oklahoma, four people were shot in Merced, California, three people were killed in Ames, Iowa, two people were shot at a funeral in Racine, Wisconsin, and four people were killed and several injured during an attack at a hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma. All in the space of about two weeks. And these are just the mass shootings. And there were likely many more I didn't include as well as all the shootings that didn't involve multiple victims.

    What in the name of God is happening? Rights come with responsibilities, but increasingly our citizenry demonstrates they're less and less able to handle them with care. Sad that my mind saw the lovely harbor as a metaphor for the innocence in an elementary school classroom, but so it goes. Pray for our country, my friends. As I wrote in my post from May 28, 2022...

    Simply devastated by so much needless hate, horror, and division in our land. This year, on Memorial Day weekend, my thoughts are with so many more than our war-dead, as there’s a deadly battle nearly every day somewhere across our great splintering country. Prayers and peace with all of you. 

“And, truth to tell, nothing was more important on earth than a child’s suffering, the horror it inspires in us, and the reasons we must find to account for it.” — Albert Camus

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‘Indian River Marina,’ the beautiful boats docked in neat rows, like schoolchildren in a classroom, under a heavenly southern Delaware sky filled with glorious sunbeams.

www.johnjgiardinaphotography.com


Location: 39415 Inlet Rd, Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971, USA

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