That’s right.
Normally if you click either my name or my picture in the TU blog community, you see a masthead, or “topper,” featuring a fade of blue and white. Some of the other bloggers – Daniel Nester, for one – are blessed with a customized blog topper.
And yeah, I wanted some customization too. Not unlike someone who wants to put spinners on their car tires, I wanted some sort of distinct imagery to denote my weblog.
After some discussion with TU blog-wrangler Mike Huber, I was able to submit one of my photographs to be used as an appropriate blog “topper.” I chose this picture of the bridge that spans the lake at Washington Park.
Yes, it was taken in the winter. Yes, that’s ice on the lake. No, I did not fall in. And yes, this is one of the pictures that’s part of my “Motivations” art book.
The nice thing about this picture is that – work with me on this. We’ve all gone through troubles and pain and heartache and difficulty in our lives. Sometimes nature prevents us from crossing – the water’s too deep, the ice is too cold.
It’s at that point in time that we have a bridge that spans our troubles. We can get across that which blocks our path. There’s no need to feel like we’re the only person in the world, and that nobody cares about us. Someone built that bridge to help us cross. Someone else went through the same troubles we had, and they built something – a rainbow bridge, a bridge over troubled water, a bridge of sighs, whatever. And if those before us built that bridge so we could cross, how can we not pass along anything we can do to help someone along the path who needs our assistance?
Just a thought.
Chuck The Writer 
So now you’re Emo Chuck instead of Ego Chuck?
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Dan, you know how many emo musicians it takes to screw in a light bulb, don’t you? None, they all just sit in the dark and write songs about how dark their lives are. Hee.
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