This? Or That?

This beautiful clock, handcrafted with heart, has graced my life for decades. Full of love, it has been the subject of much good natured deliberation.

Is it a fish? Or a turtle? Or possibly, both, this and that?

Recently it occurred to me that my clock is emblematic of many things that we see and hear. Its meaning is open to interpretation, like a Rorschach. In this way I believe that it symbolically reflects much bigger, societal, this-or-that debates. Few of those polarizing discussions however, are as congenial as the clock talk ones.

Perspective is shaped in many ways. There is always another way to look at things. I think my clock frames its steady rhythm in the timeless message of the Beatles song, “All You Need Is Love.”

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