There are days that have a certain flow to them.

There are other days when, well…they flow not.

I have just spent close to an hour trying to add a photo to this post. This is something I do nearly every single day of the week.

This is not a large feat.

This is, as they say, a no-brainer.

Except. No matter how many times I rotated the damned picture, saved my changes and uploaded and inserted it into this post…it came up sideways. I could pretend it’s an avant-garde style of photo; pretend that I intentionally wanted the Croatian angel statue to be lying down.

And truth be told, I didn’t know what I was going to write about, or why that particular photo was drawing me to put it up, but that’s hardly unusual for how I do these things. And so I persisted.

But here’s the deal. That angel is refusing to stand upright. That photo will not stay rotated come hell or high water.

Maybe the lesson is that the angels are not always on my side? Maybe the lesson is that I still am in abundant need of learning patience? Maybe, like ghosts, angels hate being photographed and are uncooperative.

Maybe there is no lesson at all. Maybe it simply means I need to throw in a different photo. Oh wait. I tried that, they are all refusing to do anything but go sideways. What is going on? Perhaps the lesson is that no photo is happening today. Period.

Which is why you are not seeing a picture of an angel that I took in some church in Croatia. Maybe Croatia needs that angel more than I do. Odds are good.

I guess we all just need a visual rest today. Consider it my gift to you; one less piece of stimuli in an steroidly-over-enhanced-stimuli-laden-world.