I chose the images of walls as the backgrounds for my blogs very intentionally and for several reasons. One, because walls are so often accused and used as a symbol for confinement--imprisonment. So often we are stuck on being enslaved within, that we forget what is without. We use only one symbolic meaning as the iconic symbol for captivity--when really it is the symbol of our lives--our homes, a place of refuge, a new, separate world contained therein. Another reason is that walls are wise.
They not only guard us from outside elements, but they know us in our most private moments.
Walls can define us as a society--the Berlin Wall (and its toppling...), the Great Wall of China.
They also define us as individuals--with pictures hung and holes re-plastered. on these blogs I have two very different walls. Both used. Both loved, in very different ways. Both abused the same. These walls are our stories, just as these blogs are mine--different in construction, but with the same purpose.