A Small Moment of Pause

Writing the words “build on the improvement” a cringe — the familiar smell of a self help book. A flashback with its own difficulties, but it is not what you think.

When I set to take a photograph it is really important, to do it right and do it well, Then start to wonder if building on improvement should be a repetitive exercise, a needed one. Yet wonder if I am trying to innocently go tumbling into novelty’s inevitable slow death, from tedium.

Of course none of the above is intended except that when “do it right, do it well” followed by “build on the improvement”, dumps you into a conceptual limitation, similar cycle of life then death and rebirth. Because the result of attempting to “do it right, do it well” is never going to be good enough and you just have this one conscious life.

“Build on the improvement” as your motto is a personalized death trap, maybe It is just a catch phrase to keep a stereotype feeding line alive- a tyrannical rule of convention where your connection to consciousness is encouraged out of reach, because after all you are mortal and inconsequential. So instead of “building on improvement” why can’t we just search for that elusive manifestation of your being which allowed us to see in the first place.

”It is really important for me, to do it right and do it well”, and no more

-ponder!

Ackert Hook Rd, NY
7/20/2020