‘I Just Want To Vent’
Venting : for when you are more closed than open.
I Just Want To Vent
Tag: Open
Please Slide To Open
‘Please Slide To Open’
There is a chink of light outside the door.
Slide the door.
Don’t pull it, or push it.
There is a slight opening, which will get bigger as you go.
Ease into the light, for you cannot force it.
Outside awaits you.
Doors Closed, Eyes Open
“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us”
– Alexander Graham Bell
The first part of this quote is almost a cliché.
It is, fortunately for us, very often true.
The second part is a wisdom to bear in mind though.
I can personally attest to lingering at closed doors ,thus missing out on openings, but I have learnt over time to quickly look elsewhere when something just isn’t to be .
The photo is of some of the most impressive doors in my bag of pictures, just to remind myself that a beautiful closed door is still just a closed door…
Shuttered
Tropicalia scene: a Singaporean street of a row of colonial era houses with louvred window shutters.
All closed, bar those of one house.
That is my challenge to myself – to be the exception – the house with shutters thrown wide open…
…to stay open, keep open, always…
Ebb Then Flood 