I took this new title photo when I was out biking with friends, scoping out neighborhoods in a still unknown environment. It was a beautiful Sunday. We came to the river overlook in Brooklyn Heights. There were four men leaning over the railing. I'm not sure if you can see it in the photograph, but they are two conservative Jews and two priests, huddled and admiring the view.
Are they caught in a moment of praise?
As they look down at the highway and industrial site concealed from view, they must also see waste.
In our modern life where we have made so much waste, it is time to make praise. Must we also praise the waste?
praise: |prāz|
verb [ trans. ]
express warm approval or admiration of
to express one's respect and gratitude toward (a deity), esp. in song
Thesaurus: commend, express admiration for, applaud, pay tribute to, speak highly of, eulogize, compliment, congratulate, sing the praises of, rave about, go into raptures about, heap praise on, wax lyrical about, make much of, pat on the back, take one's hat off to, lionize, admire, hail, ballyhoo; formal laud.waste:
|wāst|
verb[ trans. ] use or expend carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose; [ intrans. ] poetic/literary (of time) pass away; be spent;
adjective (of a material, substance, or byproduct)
eliminated or discarded as no longer useful or required after the completion of a processThesurus [adjective]waste material: unwanted, excess, superfluous, left over, scrap, useless, worthless; unusable, unprofitable. Waste ground: uncultivated, barren, desert, arid, bare; desolate, void, uninhabited, unpopulated; wild.The necessary byproduct of our existence; emotional, physical, intellectual, verbal, transcendental, unintentional, intentional. "
Eliminated or discarded as no longer useful or required after the completion of a process." Is waste then the silence after a poem? The slough off of words?
We all create waste.
So let us all praise.
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