Eyeing Some Fish
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I haven’t meant to neglect this blog. Life is always changing. I’ve been doing work-related projects for the most part, but also some house things and an artsy project. I’m trying to decide whether to remain in the Ohio Valley for a while longer or go somewhere else. If I move, where will I go? Or will I travel for a bit and work from the road? My little pea-brain spins when I start pondering all of the possibilities. These last two weeks the “busy-ness” is catching up with me, and, as of this morning, I’m quickly developing either a sinus/allergy malady or a blasted summer cold.
At any rate, Saturday I visited my cousins, who are working on the decorative pond in their front yard. We went up to Wet Pets in Pittsburgh’s South Hills looking for new pumps and plants and fish. While they hashed all of that out, I meandered through the aquarium aisles watching neon colors in various shapes and sizes dart through bubbled waters and fake coral.
The fish life in an aquarium: no big decisions on packing it all in to unpack somewhere else; daily food in a temperature-controlled climate; observing the observers on the other side of the glass (what is glass?) I did note, though, that while some are lazily, coasting back and forth, others make their tanks look like the subway at rush hour. What are they thinking?
Are they content, or do any of them, like the goldfish in the Public Television commercial, long to be a wild salmon swimming upstream in the excitement of the rapids?
(These, by the way, were taken with my phone not my DSLR, so the quality is a bit lacking)
