Archives

October 14archives,old garage, breaux bridge

I am thankful for archives. Archives are the storage of items with historical perspective. To me, that applies to us personally in that our archives are memories of events, people, or things that have "historical" perspective in our lives. Archives are important because they predate the things that happened to us prior to today and may have had importance in where we are in our lives currently. That can be applied to bad memories as well as good memories. Those memories can help us to move forward and build upon the good things that we have experience previously or stand as bad instances from which we can recover by moving beyond them.

This is a photograph of an old garage I found in Breaux Bridge. It has two areas for storage of "archive", an open one on the left and a closed on on the right. Bicycles and several other items have been stored on the left side. The right side could hold a car or other items. I developed this picture in HDR using Photomatix to combine three exposures, which gave it a surreal kind of look.

archives

i have a grand old archival system

that stores away many items of old

it’s got a complicated retrieval system

indexes and cross references untold

they should be there at a moment’s notice

to be retrieved for good

but one little problem is in my brain

the index system does not work as it should.

© rt tulley