The theme of this week’s photo challenge is A Good Match. I was first thinking about all the combinations of things we get used to in our daily lives, like coffee and milk (even though I only have my coffee black), whisky and cigars (saw that in the movies), salt and pepper, and all other sugar and spice. Anchoring is strong in human mind, once the author of the photo challenge gives a food example, you can’t help but think along the same lines.
And then I thought, life has far more wisdom than we do – especially when it comes matching. Life creates couples.
A romantic painting on the wall of La Boca neightbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina
I came across this wall painting in quite a dodgy area of Buenos Aires (one step away from colorful touristic Caminito, and La Boca feels borderline safe). One look at this, and all the imperfections of the neighborhood stopped to exist (along with safety considerations). I stood there for a moment, impressed by this human creation – and by life that had inspired it. Then I moved on, but my day was marked but something kind, beautiful, authentic and unique – by something magical.
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Someone did a great job with that mural.
janet
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Thanks Janet – someone certainly did 😉
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Hmm.., I am always perturbed by sugar and spice. Do we really use them together?
It appears to be a juxtapose you are referring to on borderline safe in La Boca…
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Not really, sugar and spice is an American saying, maybe there? 😀 always makes me think of Christmas sweets, baked ones with cinnamon. All Latin America is a juxtapose if you think about it, land of contrasts.
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LOL yes they are indeed. We read somewhere that there is no real ‘happy hour’ at bars in Brazil…considering the party nation we think of them…so yes a juxtapose indeed.
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Thank you for risking life and limb to capture this mural. It’s amazing what beauty can do to us!
And thank you for the take on the Challenge – couple hood is truly one of life’s mysteries and when we find a good match, a treasure!
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Such a sweet and thoughtful comment, thank you for leaving it! I was more risking my camera on this particular instance, but all is well that ends well 😉
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Lovely painting!
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