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Project Mid-Life 52 #4

Another week of my mid-life project.

I. Body

Squinting

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That is me trying to see what is on my screen without my glasses. Without them I’m essentially blind.

I got my first pair of glasses at 11, the same age I got my first computer. No relation, but I remember my mother thinking that sitting hours in front of the screen was the cause. In reality it’s a physical distortion of the eyeball, so entirely unrelated.

I’m very shortsighted and the joys of aging is that I’m also becoming long-sighted at the same time, but not compensating each other.

II. Objects

Glycaemia test

One of the essential things when you have diabetes is to know what’s what: you need to know what activities do to you, you need to know what each food element does to your blood sugar, you need to know how your body behave at different times of the day or season.

I’ve been using this tester for several years. This is blood on it. When you have used a test strip and you have nowhere to put it, you tend to put it in the case. I’m sure that’s what every does. But they have traces of blood that end up on the case itself.

III. Places

Barn at sunrise

Our barn is where we park most of our cars. Over time you accumulate houses, barns, and other pieces of property. Our barn is probably much older than our house because it fits in the 18th centuries plans I have found of our house as one of the wings (the house was oriented East-West, ours faces South). Also the structure looks older than the house which is late 19th century.

Our barn in the 18th century

Our barn matches exactly that wing of the old house. The rest of the house is gone and our current house is along the top of the plot.

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A software engineer looking 50 in the eye. Photography picked up over 20 years ago, then set aside as life intervened — and recently returned to, with a deliberate focus on monochrome. Also drawn to found negatives: rolls of film abandoned by strangers, full of lives worth rescuing from obscurity.