{"id":3022,"date":"2013-01-13T22:45:41","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T22:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=3022"},"modified":"2013-01-13T22:45:41","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T22:45:41","slug":"daily-prompt-take-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=3022","title":{"rendered":"Daily Prompt: Take Two"},"content":{"rendered":"

Run outside. Take a picture of the first thing you see. Run inside. Take a picture of the second thing you see. Write about the connection between these two random objects, people, or scenes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This was the instruction for yesterday’s daily prompt.\u00a0 When I read it, I thought ‘I can do that’.\u00a0 I immediately took my small camera from its small drawer and walked<\/em> outside.\u00a0 My husband was sitting at the outdoor table with his cereal bowl and glass of juice. \u00a0 But my eye fell first on his computer.\u00a0 I clicked.<\/p>\n

\"Brett<\/a><\/p>\n

I turned round, stepped back through the door and the first thing I saw was washing waiting to be folded, but the instruction is to record the second thing.\u00a0 I turned my head;\u00a0 it was the console radio that I saw, that I always see, with its photos of Renaissance architecture in Lyon, and a photo of my mother.\u00a0 Not long before she died.\u00a0 Click.<\/p>\n

\"Console<\/a>
Radio console, c1949<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I have to find a connection.\u00a0 It could be the old glass vase and the new glass tabletop.\u00a0 It could be the Chain of Hearts growing above and over the radio console and the star jasmine growing like a triffid over the deck rail outside.\u00a0 Or it could be a connection to do with men.<\/p>\n

My father listened to this radio at a quarter to the hour, every hour, beginning at 5.45am with the first major news bulletin.\u00a0 He would turn it up so it could be heard from the kitchen where he was eating breakfast, and I would wake and groan.<\/p>\n

By contrast, and yet similarly, my husband reads the news on his computer while eating breakfast.\u00a0 The technology has changed but the need for these two men to know the latest world news is the same.<\/p>\n

There’s a broken thread in the connection:\u00a0 the radio hasn’t worked for years.\u00a0 When I inherited it from my family home, my husband, a former radio technician, said he could fix it.\u00a0 But after opening it up and fiddling long inside, he wasn’t able to get it going.<\/p>\n

The actual radio in the radio console is beneath the flowery frame, but if I remove the clutter, you can see it.\u00a0 Looking closely at the panel, I remember something:\u00a0 this Handel radio was made for Queenslanders.\u00a0 See how the station indicators are bolder?\u00a0 And I notice there’s no row for the Northern Territory, but there’s one for N.G.\u00a0 Is that New Guinea, I wonder?<\/p>\n

\"Handel<\/a>
Handel radio, c1949, now silent<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A thought tickles me:\u00a0 I imagine one of our sons in thirty years with an inherited computer, opening it up and operating on it in the hope of reliving his father’s newsreading breakfasts…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Run outside. Take a picture of the first thing you see. Run inside. Take a picture of the second thing you see. Write about the connection between these two random objects, people, or scenes. This was the instruction for yesterday’s daily prompt.\u00a0 When I read it, I thought ‘I can do that’.\u00a0 I immediately took … <\/p>\n

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