Ant People – City People by Tiffany Belle Harper #Birmingham #Selfridges #GrandCentral

So many people in dark colours – like busy ants –  yet going nowhere.

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Grand Central – Birmingham – UK

On phones, drinking coffee, dashing for trains – vacant looks upon their faces …

Children in buggies – asleep with the hum – or eyes open, staring at signs and posters.

Where’s ‘Mother Nature’ in cities for their young. Do they know?

Oh, and escalators make ants fat on fast pastries & pretzels …

Where are the stairs … do they care?

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Grand Central Birmingham – UK

The sun looks beautiful today but most seem oblivious. They look down or forward, seldom up …

I stop for coffee, noticing 3 men, huddled, cosy, engaged in conversation. A rainbow coloured umbrella lies on the floor near to one of them. He wears matching ‘multi-coloured’ socks that contrast vividly against his dark grey suit.

‘I bet they’re in the community,’ I thought …’Slower than most of the others, more depth – butterflies not ants.’

I’m the fly on the wall. I hear your tales. I see your souls, but you don’t notice. I like that. Real artists sneak without ego … There’s no skill with ‘that’ or greed and ants need to learn this more often.

(extract from my book.)

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Selfridges – The Bullring – UK

Tiffany Belle Harper.

Without Your Phones by Tiffany Belle Harper

Just found a great photographic feature at the foot of this page. Had to share. So typical of today. Sad really.

Just be careful that technology is not a substitute for reality.

Phones don’t hug or give advice for ‘you’ as an individual soul.

You can’t beat a proper kiss and rubbing noses – tickling, eye contact. All the lovely things that cost nothing.

But if you used your phone more often to call those you love instead of seeing what people you will probably never meet in ‘real’ life are doing on Social Media – You’d maybe find a better sense of ‘self’ fulfilment.

ph2Alternatively, don’t have a phone and get a life instead? Or what I’ve done is have a cheap festival  phone that I take out with me in-case of emergency. It’s basically a little thing with a keyboard on the front and no fancy gimmicks – I’d rather use my brain to do that for me.

Tiffany Belle. Harper.

Full Link > People Without Phones