http://gtbarnes.com/2010/01/22/the-value-of-life/ Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:10:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://gtbarnes.com/2010/01/22/the-value-of-life/comment-page-1/#comment-2958 Donna Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:05:24 +0000 http://gtbarnes.com/?p=1739#comment-2958 I think he looks sad... grieving... and the dog is comforting him. I love the photo though. Very striking. We are currently being owned by stuff, and trying to get rid of it. The difficulty comes in getting rid of things that are of monetary value without cringing at the financial loss. The time consumption of selling it off, choosing what to keep, what to sell, what to give... I would just as soon walk away from it all. My husband sometimes wishes a natural disaster would take it all away and the decisions wouldn't be up to us. The American culture definitely is a greedy one. Neither of us grew up here, and it was surprisingly easy to get caught up in the 'gotta have it' syndrome. Very sad. I think he looks sad… grieving… and the dog is comforting him. I love the photo though. Very striking. We are currently being owned by stuff, and trying to get rid of it. The difficulty comes in getting rid of things that are of monetary value without cringing at the financial loss. The time consumption of selling it off, choosing what to keep, what to sell, what to give… I would just as soon walk away from it all. My husband sometimes wishes a natural disaster would take it all away and the decisions wouldn't be up to us. The American culture definitely is a greedy one. Neither of us grew up here, and it was surprisingly easy to get caught up in the 'gotta have it' syndrome. Very sad.

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