A Study In Composition With a Story - a photo on Flickriver

A Study In Composition With a Story

            A creased and crackled old man was sitting at the gas station just after dark tonight. He asked if I could spare him any money and I said I had none that I could call spare but offered him my gilded birdcage instead. It had just been given to me by a stranger, new to the neighborhood. She had placed it on the sidewalk and, as I was passing, I asked if she was giving it away. She said she had no room for it but was hoping to do that rather than discard it. I told her I once had one that I used at craft shows to display the earrings I made, and that it had been stolen, and that I'd be happy to take hers to replace it. She said she was happy to give it a good new home. When I offered it to the old man he bent over laughing and said that my offer made his day. I told him his laughter made mine. I carried the bird cage home, thinking what a wonderful thing it was that a birdcage on the edge of being discarded had brought joy to three people on one summer evening.
   

Taken on: July 3, 2024

Tags:

contrast

birdcage

shadow

stucco

parallel

dark and light

neighborhood story

gift

joy

laughter

curved lines « less

Sets appears in: • Germantown

Groups appears in: • Beautiful Light • Museum of Inner Child Art more » • Blogging Philadelphia • EnjoyLife/HumorPix • Germantown, Philadelphia • Northwest Philadelphia • Creative: Writer - Writing - Poet - Poetry • Android Photographer « less

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