Weekly Photo Challenge: Window
Besides being an opening in the wall of a building (framed and glassed) or the side of a car or train, a window symbolizes an openness, freedom, opportunity, and hope. So does a door, one might say, but a door can be shut in front of us and separate us from others – rapidly and powerfully. A door is not as penetrable as a window with its fragile glass. One can look through a window both ways – from inside out and from outside in.
Curiosity
As the world goes by…
Tucson traditional windows
Tucson modern windows & reflections in them
Windows are vulnerable, just like our feelings. There is a reason why a house without windows often represents sadness. So when Roy Orbison sings, “I am moving to a house without windows,” it is clear that he is unhappy because his heart was broken by the loss of a great love.
Solitude
And there is another type of symbolism that relates to eyes and windows. Some see eyes as the windows to our (so called) soul, while others see them as windows to the world and how we perceive that world.
Piero Fornasetti’s concept
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Alicja Mann Waves 
January 17, 2014 at 5:37 AM
Bravo…revelations of our world and its inhabitants.
January 17, 2014 at 4:17 PM
Many thanks Vince! I am very happy that you are still reading my blog – keep in touch once a while, I really appreciate that!
Have a nice weekend – Alicja
January 17, 2014 at 4:05 PM
Awesome
January 17, 2014 at 4:22 PM
Hello, and many thanks!
“Awesome” is a powerful, complimenting word – thanks again!
January 17, 2014 at 7:23 PM
I specifically loved the first picture …. It has some unsaid magic 🙂
Sonal
January 22, 2014 at 5:58 PM
Hello Sonal, so nice to know your name!
This is my response to your comment below. There was no “Reply” choice after that comment you made. I do not understand why. Oh well…
You are very poetic person, Sonal, (I know because I visited your blog) that is why you see the first photo of my post that way. Indeed it has some magic that I wanted others to see and it is very satisfying when it happens! Many thanks – Alicja
January 20, 2014 at 12:47 PM
Very cool….very profound. Thanks again for great pics and blog. I think of these as “e-meditations”…..a moment when I must stop what I do. Sit still. See something meaningful and then contemplate that meaning. Thanks again for the positive vibe.
Mark Trocchi
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January 22, 2014 at 5:46 PM
“E-meditations” – what a nice concept and a great complement for me! Thank you Mark -Alicja
January 22, 2014 at 6:29 PM
NOTE – to ALL Readers of this post of my blog
I pressed totally by accident LIKE on this post and did not know how to remove it! Nobody could help me and I run out of time to pursue that.
Of course I like my own post – I would not publish it if I did not, but posting my own LIKE is simply embarrassing for me!
Sorry for that, and thanks for your understanding.
Alicja