It’s supposed to be about images of joy, but the editor clearly intends you to see it as images of beauty – beauty being an essential corollary of joy, granted, but here’s the problem:
The beauty you’re supposed to be wowed by is the physical beauty
of The Woman, but for me she’s only fifth in line. My list, in order of
precedence, would be:
1. The kids, and especially the little girl being cradled to
the chest of the big girl. Is there anything more beautiful than a child
grinning?
2. The horse. One of the big revelations of this year has
been that I’m starting to ‘get’ horses, and they seem to be responding.
3. The flamingo – moving, but you have to wonder how they
got the shots.
4. The step off the ledge and the plummet into the pool. Something
to do with giving yourself up to freefall, I suppose.
5. The Woman, but only at 2.31 – 2.33 where she has the look
of the Lady B about her.
It’s fortunate that the Lady B doesn’t read this blog any
more, or else she would probably stop speaking to me for saying that. Come to
think of it, she doesn’t speak to me these days anyway, so it doesn’t really
matter. (Not many people do, you know. I think it must be the hairstyle.)
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