Spain
Growing Old
On 14, Aug 2012 | 2 Comments | In SN2S 12/7, Spain, Travel & Places | By MR
During their lifetime, Churchill and Gandhi, amongst others have stated that: "You can learn a lot about a culture by how it treats its' old". When I first heard it, I didn't really know what it meant, as I wasn't around old people much. My parents at the time were young and my aunts and uncle were all very young, and two of my grandparents had passed away before I was born while the other two passed away while I was too young to remember. As my dad passed away, and my mom started getting older, I started to notice that the young as a society does not really pay much attention to their elderly. It used to be more apparent in Western cultures, but nowadays it is more existent in eastern cultures as well. The elderly often become invisible because they are tucked away, out of sight out of mind. More and more old folks homes are popping up, to take away the burden of caring for older loved ones. When people grow old in traditional villages in Fiji, family and friends care for them at home until their dying days. In America, the elderly are more typically sent to nursing homes — I understand the demands of a typical workday in the US, and I understand what leads someone to make that choice, but by contrast it appears unfeeling, even cruel. What is really intriguing is that it varies a lot culture by culture, as to how the last generation grows old, and what the younger generation dos to care for them. In Europe and US, older people are much more independent, and there are facilities for them to be independent, so you end up seeing more older people live by themselves, and have a life on their own. Observing this passage of life is very interesting to me, because I feel it is a chapter with a lot of stories. Older people live their lives slower, with majority of their actions based on their life experiences and wisdom earned over the years. One day I would love to do a project, to focus on how people embrace the wonders of aging and deal with its challenges.
It also seems older people like to take the bus a lot.[....]
Harmony
On 25, Jul 2012 | No Comments | In SN2S 12/7, Spain, Travel & Places | By MR
This was taken in The Cathedral and former Great Mosque of Córdoba, locally known as ...[....]
Walking in Edgar Allan Poe’s Mind
On 20, Jul 2012 | No Comments | In SN2S 12/7, Spain, Travel & Places | By MR
This was taken in in Ubeda, a small town near Cordoba, in the south of Spain. The town is really small, and at night the smaller streets are lit up using halogen lights, which give it a really orange glow. But its not really lit up in all spaces, and in combination with the smaller streets, sometimes gives a very dramatic feel. If you are familar with Edgar Allan Poe's writings, it gives a very similar vibe (but maybe not so macabre). The high contrast lighting this provides is what I was after, and the shadows of the two people walking completes it.[....]
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