Behind The Story

Photo: Reading in the Park - City of Chicago - Copyright 2016 Frank J Casella

Great summer weather and quiet nature brings people out to Millennium park in Chicago, Illinois. It's important in life to have balance and to do some reading so that we may grow our knowledge and prosper our life in this world.

Every photograph has a story to tell. As well, behind every photograph is a story. And behind every story is history that brought the story to this point in time.

(Do you need to read that again?)

In other words, when I click the camera shutter to make a photograph, there are many hours of learning the background why the photograph has a story.

In the same way, every good writer is a voracious reader. Behind every hour of writing, it is said, is at least 10 hours of reading.

Every great musician is known as an insatiable listener. .. and so on.

An interesting thing I have learned from reading the books, and listening to the podcasts, by Rabbi Daniel Lapin, is that he claims Jews make up one of the smallest communities in America. Yet, they are the most wealthy in the country.

Why is this?

He says because they keep reading, and you will find in most of their homes books and books on the shelves and everywhere else.

So my point being, the more you read, the more you learn, and the more you master the category of your field of interest.

Today, however, it is hard to know how much a person reads, or how many books they own, because you can fit shelves of books in the hard drive of an iPad.

The iPad has become a consumption device, for example.

Compare (or contrast this) with the many people on social media and the like who share opinions without even knowing the full story or history of what they mare making opinion.

Some of our Lawmakers in Washington D.C. have the same issue, I think. They don't understand the 'why' behind the story .. or the law ... or the US Constitution.

My favorite app for this is Hoopla, because you can loan most any digital book there is through your public library .. for free!

When you know the background to the 'why' behind a story, it gives the story ... and life .. more meaning.




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Thank you for reading,

Enjoy your day!

Frank J Casella, Art Photographer
Blogger on Fine Art America


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