February 14, 2018

A Tribute To Everyday Life – UK Day In The Life Photographer

A Tribute To Everyday Life

(By Dan Turell – translated from Danish)

I like everyday life

The slow awakening to the familiar view

Which is never so familiar after all

The family’s at once confidant, yet strange faces,

once you’re no longer sleepy

The morning kisses

The slam of the mail in the hallway

The smell of coffee

The ritual wanders to the corner store

for milk, bread, the papers –

 

 

I like everyday life

Despite all it’s irritations

The bus rattling down the street

The birds chirping from their cage

The old neighbour stopping by

The kid who needs to be picked up from school just when you’re getting started

The shopping list fixed in the jacket pocket

With it’s regular demands of meat, potatoes, coffee and biscuits

I like everyday life

The daily order

The letters that need to be written

The rent collection

The dishes

Recognising you’re out of nappies or tape

I like everyday life

Not as opposed to partying, smoking weed and whoopee

You need that

With all it’s leftover cinders

So much left unsaid and loosely implied, hanging in the air afterwards

Like some kind of psychic hangover

Only the morning coffee of everyday life can cure –

 

KENT PHOTOGRAPHER DAY IN THE LIFE FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHY CHILDREN DRINKING HOT CHOCOLATE

Family and childrens photographer Whitstable

Parties are fine! Make space for euphoria!

Let the champagne flow!

And then what happiness to lie down afterwards

In the bed of ease and everyday life

To the familiar, yet not so familiar

same old view

KENT PHOTOGRAPHER NEWBORN BABY FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHY LONDON

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