We don't really know what control is

[sovay]

It is not that I had not thought once all day about the events of January 6th, but I have no idea how to commemorate an insurrection, especially when the schadenfreude spectacle of its architects eating their own has ended in a far-right Republican hold on the House and its Speaker. The will-o'-the-wisp of a working government was tantalizing while it lasted. I am infuriated by what seems like the passive nihilism of too many people, but the world doesn't have to make it so hard for me to believe in its future, let alone my own.

When I tried to take a picture of the falling snow tonight, it should probably not have been through my office window, but I like the unreal street it created.

Comments

[cmcmck]

A rather strange but effective shot.

[sovay]

A rather strange but effective shot.

Thank you. The strangeness is what I like about it.

[asakiyume]

I am nodding my head like a bobble doll at your first paragraph.

The photo is magnificent, a netherworld.

[sovay]

I am nodding my head like a bobble doll at your first paragraph.

I just wanted them all to fail, not because of the schadenfreude, which to be honest I wasn't tracking the details of, but because I thought it would be safer for the country. I am sick of everything feeling ever more unsafe.

The photo is magnificent, a netherworld.

Thank you. The sky was actually less charcoal-colored than represented; it was a sort of normally grey dusk, but I think the camera reacted to the influx of light from different sources by overcompensating.

[rachelmanija]

That photo is beautiful. It looks like a painting.

[sovay]

That photo is beautiful. It looks like a painting.

Thank you!

[gwynnega]

That photo is amazing.

[sovay]

That photo is amazing.

Thank you!

[radiantfracture]

The photo is haunting and strangely apposite.

[sovay]

The photo is haunting and strangely apposite.

Thank you.