Words For My Pictures

Where do you find lonely people the most? Big Cities! It is ironic that you have a lot of lonely people where you have a large number of people living relatively in very close proximity. In big cities, even though people are surrounded and live with a large number of people close by they don't interact with strangers that they are surrounded with. Friends and families they have are also not available due to work or just because they are into their busy lives which doesn't give room for social engagement as much. Social media doesn't make it any better for lonely people either. Social media is meant to make people be with people without being physically being together but it mostly works to the contrary. The fact is that it makes people anti-social by limiting real interaction and conversations between people on a normal day to day activities sans smartphones and computers. Old and retired people are more prone to this ep...

This is not about a rock or a pop group. It is about a project born out of tragedy.  Susan and her husband started the Love Rocks project after losing their two daughters Anna and Abby in a tragic accident on October 20,2013. Even though they were devastated by the loss they chose to keep the fun and joyous sprite of their daughters alive by making Love Rocks and sending them out for all who need love. I found my Love Rock at my workplace at Bellevue WA, left for someone to find it. That someone happened to be me. I suspect it was left by a special Olympic athlete who was competing in the USA Special Olympics competition held in Seattle in June 2018. When I found the rock I had no idea what it was. It had a cut fabric in a shape of a heart glued on a shiny black river rock. Lucky Love Rocks were written on the back of the stone and I googled it. What I found is a touching story of tragedy and love. I saw that the parents who had to endure the greatest tr...