Saturday, October 28, 2023

In the park with George? July 22, 2013

 


 

She went to the park again yesterday, and most likely, by herself, although it always difficult to nail something down when she posts a photo of herself on Facebook.

She could be using a timer to take a picture of herself or has someone else taking of her.

Nearly all the photos I have seen of her over the last year have been self portraits -- such as the one she recently posted in her mother’s kitchen (I surmise that it was her mother’s kitchen since her brother made some comment under the posting in that regard.)

Outdoors, however, is a mixed bag, such as the one taken of her eating lunch (most likely from a food truck) while sitting on some rocks (the background showing a number of residential buildings, none of which I recognize from around here, although she could be anywhere with anybody, and I’d have no clue from my vantage point – merely looking at what she posts.)

Work photos are different in that she is often depicted in a group.

Her most recent two photos, however, clearly show her in a local park, needing no view of the New York Skyline to recognize which park.

This all seems odd to be that she would be all by herself on a weekend, perhaps defying my jealousy when I envision her constantly being with one of her admirers.

She’s changed her hair style, long, jet black with bangs which make her look younger and incredibly innocent.

She turns 35 this week.

The outdoors highlights her makeup more and does not emphasize her more attractive features such as her amazing eyes.

But none of these posts are accidental, and I suspect each photo is a message to someone, perhaps to her late lover with the implication, “See, what you’ve given up.”  Although some photos seem to be part of self-promotion, and increase the sense that she feels isolated.

This sense of loneliness seems to support the theme of her recent poems

I am, of course, puzzled by why she’s not gone farther than she has, since she has so much talent.

But that is one of the great mysteries of the universe.

 


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