The mixedness of everything —
The region we live in, the Pioneer Valley, is home to five colleges, four of them small and elite, the fifth a major state university. Education is our main economic industry! But the report in our local paper after every weekend is of all the drunken student brawls and arrests spilling into surrounding areas. So I know what you mean. There are “street people” here too, and drug dealing, and crime —
On a bad day one wonders, like you, about the state of our world.
But then, as C.S. Lewis said in one of his books, we are surprised by joy! Which renews our taste for life. As you say, that’s the point.
Your photographs are indeed artifacts of beauty, which also renews the taste for life — for you and for us.
Have a joyful Sunday –