One year ago today, October 3, 2012, Awakenings featured Torn with Time. A revisit today provides enhancement and a challenge.
As you travel along life's
highway, what enters your mind when you pass decaying billboards, faded, peeling, or etched
with graffiti? What is your first gut reaction? Do you view them as merely nothing more than an eyesore, dirty, ragged and ugly? Do you turn the other way, possibly start a conversation and leave each behind without the slightest thought?
Today, Awakenings plants a seed and challenges you to see it grow — grow from something torn with time into something inspirational. Next time you pass a decaying billboard take time to consider it differently, embrace the past, empower the present and enrich the future.
Embrace the Past . . .
Empower the Present . . .
Enrich the Future . . .
Oakland at Broadway & E 41st
(Photograph © 2011 by Richard Sargent)
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Today, Awakenings plants a seed and challenges you to see it grow — grow from something torn with time into something inspirational. Next time you pass a decaying billboard take time to consider it differently, embrace the past, empower the present and enrich the future.
Embrace the Past . . .
Instead of a quick glance, immediately looking away, take a closer look. Consider each as more than dying words blistering from scorching heat across disparate images. Think about the faded words and torn images as part of history. . .the evolution of change.
Empower the Present . . .
Inspiration can be gathered from the strangest sources, even decaying billboards. Each billboard is a colorful, creative, engaging melting pot. Now, at first glance, what inspires you?
Enrich the Future . . .
What once attracted attention now reflects aging as life itself. Become aware of your life's billboards as images inch their way forward revealing memories of events or friendships gone, but not forgotten.
Torn with Time
With time comes progression, with
progression comes change,
with change comes growth that often stills memories as
new ways of the world emerge.
Now with fewer bits of information |
billboards
ravaged with time
maintain their outer
shapes
lingering of
secrets hidden
as paper peels
and drapes
diminishing camouflaged enigmas
diminishing camouflaged enigmas
lay under cover out of view
concealing
mysteries beneath their skins
’til forgotten
layers push through
rugged frames, solid foundations
endure the
eroding sands of time
weathering the
change in seasons
as the layers
gradually unwind
billboards
generating smiles of life
reveal
captivating thought
pressing designs
into memory
as images remain
taut
bleached paper
and spotted ink
subtly reflect
on times past
fading into the
distance
as lone ghosts
of meaning last
onionskins
exposed to the world
tear freely from
the scorching surge
relinquishing sun-dried membranes
as tomorrow’s
new skins emerge
©2013 Awakenings
Sharla Lee Shults
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"Without skin, we would have no wrinkles; without wrinkles, we would have no past, present, or future. Within each new wrinkle resides a memory torn with time."
—Sharla Lee Shults
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