This week’s photo hunt theme is broken. All week I had been thinking about this theme and wondering what I would photograph. Today as I begun to look through the house for things to photograph I wondered how you would photograph a broken heart or a person that was broken.
Like the clasp on a broach or on a set of pearls, my mother was the only thing that held my brother and I together. When she passed away my brother and I went our separate ways.
The relationship between him and I over the years was like a broken clasp on a set of old pearls, a broach missing stones, an old jewelry box that belonged to my mother that was never fixed. You keep saying you’ll fix these things, but they never get repaired.
The only difference between the jewelry and my relationship with my brother and I is that jewelry can be transformed into exceptional works of art giving it new life where the relationship between him and I will be forever broken.
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Wrote: Feb 9, 2007 at 11:05 pm
Sad post for today.. sorry to read of your sibling relationship – but, is it really *forever* broken? People can mend. Blessings to your family.
Wrote: Feb 9, 2007 at 11:24 pm
Hi Rose, sad to hear that your relationship with your brother is broken, but I hope that maybe one day your relationship can be transformed too, like the jewelery?
Wrote: Feb 9, 2007 at 11:34 pm
Maybe something broken even can be to the best.
Great entry
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Wrote: Feb 9, 2007 at 11:36 pm
How very sad. I’m so sorry.
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Wrote: Feb 9, 2007 at 11:37 pm
I cant imagine not having a relationship with your brother. I come from a family of 7 siblings, and although 4 live out of state, we keep in touch via email, thank God! I feel for you!
Wrote: Feb 9, 2007 at 11:45 pm
I hope at some point your relationship with your brother can be mended.
Wrote: Feb 9, 2007 at 11:54 pm
Becci, wait you have a relationship with my brother? ROFL Lol I know what you meant and I’m happy for you. Not everyone can be so lucky to have that relationship with their siblings.
Wrote: Feb 9, 2007 at 11:56 pm
I like your take on this week’s theme, I was kind of wondering how one would photograph a broken heart myself. I can understand not getting along with one’s brother, too, I have one that makes it darned near impossible to even have a civil word with him!
Wrote: Feb 10, 2007 at 12:00 am
Tnchick, the last time that I saw my brother was at a coffee shop. Neither of us spoke to one another. After that he moved out of the province. There is a lot of hurt there and bad feelings and things I just would rather not get into, but sadly I don’t see it ever being fixed.
Blood made us family, but that is all that it made us. There’s no longer anything here, but tears and loneliness at the turning of the tide. Memories are gone, waves took him under and now I look out to a sea that only holds dead love.
Wrote: Feb 10, 2007 at 12:18 am
That’s sad, Rose. Can’t it mend?
Wrote: Feb 10, 2007 at 12:32 am
I am so sorry about the broken relationship to your brother. I wish I could say more – I can only offer to pray for healing in our heart…
Wrote: Feb 10, 2007 at 1:10 am
I actually can relate to your post as I have a broken relationship with my sister. I hope one day to mend that fence. I wish the same for you.
Wrote: Feb 10, 2007 at 3:29 am
Wow, that’s crazy, but I can relate sort of. It may not be quite the same thing though. I’ve never actually met 2 of my sisters. They live in Japan right now, and actually I kinda keep track of one sister (who had a baby a few years ago), but of my older sister, I have no idea. I only have 1 picture of her when she was about 10 years old I believe. I was 4.
I feel you!
Wrote: Feb 10, 2007 at 5:40 am
I have estranged brothers….I find myself now trying to NOT dwell on the broken relationships and trying to live a life worth living. I can’t make them be ‘family’…so, I tend to keep them in my thoughts but still continue to make the best of things that I can’t change.
Mine’s posted.
Wrote: Feb 10, 2007 at 5:44 am
Sort of like the relationship I have with my sister. I don’t think it will ever really mend.
I hope you find peace with that though.
I compare it to a crystal. When you chip it, it may get fixed but it will never ever be the same.
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Wrote: Feb 10, 2007 at 7:00 am
an emotional take on this week’s theme…
thankyou for sharing with us….we all have “broken” things in our lives…not all of us are brave enough to share them with the world.
Wrote: Feb 10, 2007 at 7:13 am
Things break and only God knows why, I guess. He is in the business of mending breaks but he also tells us that we sometimes need to move on.
Wrote: Feb 10, 2007 at 9:54 am
Awww, how sad
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Wrote: Feb 10, 2007 at 10:51 am
Wrote: Feb 10, 2007 at 11:00 am
I feel very sad for you and your brother.
I hope that one day you will find a way to heal your relationship.
Wrote: Feb 10, 2007 at 11:02 am
I can relate and I hope that in the future you and your brother will be able to mend your relationship. The analogy of the broken clasp is spot on.
Have a great weekend and thank you for the thoughtful post today
Wrote: Feb 10, 2007 at 11:32 am
Rose, I was sorry to read this but I understand. Sometimes as sad as it may seem it’s impossible to mend a relationship, both people have to be willing to make it work and at times that’s just not possible.
Thank you for visiting me and my best wishes to you.
Wrote: Feb 10, 2007 at 12:24 pm
Such a sad broken story! Im playing too!
Wrote: Feb 10, 2007 at 1:04 pm
The difference in our ages made my brother and I seem like strangers when we were under the same roof. Yet, after I went to college it changed and now I count him as one of my best if not best friends. I feel so blessed to have him in my life and cannot imagine a world without him.
I hope this will someday happen for you. It may seem impossible but sometimes just when you think all is lost, a miracle happens. That is my hope for you.
Wrote: Feb 10, 2007 at 1:47 pm
Oh Rose, I’m so sorry…*hugs*
Wrote: Feb 10, 2007 at 2:37 pm
That’s too bad about you and your brother. My brother and I aren’t close at all.
Mine’s up too.
Wrote: Feb 10, 2007 at 4:08 pm
A relationship broken forever is sad indeed. Thank you for sharing your thoughts today.
Wrote: Feb 10, 2007 at 6:55 pm
That is sad, but it takes two people to keep in touch. I have 4 other sibblings, and some just don’t want to get in touch unless there’s a hidden agenda.
What with the busy business of living, I let it go, almost safe in the knowledge that I’ll her from my Littliest sister when she needs something.
Nice photo choice even though the message is sad.
Wrote: Feb 10, 2007 at 7:27 pm
The picture and post go together so well. Sorry about the broken relationship with your brother.
Wrote: Feb 10, 2007 at 9:14 pm
This is a very poignant posting. Thank you for sharing.
Wrote: Feb 10, 2007 at 9:51 pm
Rose, that makes me very sad. I’m truly sorry that your relationship with your brother is at an end. Hubby’s cousin is in a similar situation with her sister. They have nothing to do with each other. I can’t imagine it since I have just 1 sister 8 years older than me and she lives nearby. Our parents are gone, so if we don’t stay in touch, that’s the end of the family. Our 4 boys are not particularly close. Only see each other at holidays. I tried to encourage them to play together, etc. when they were little, but she did not cooperate. I hope it isn’t too late for them.
Wrote: Feb 10, 2007 at 10:14 pm
That’s a shame. I watched a 4 year estrangement within a family years back, but they repaired themselves, but that is not always reality. I’m sorry that you two do not have each other.
Wrote: Feb 11, 2007 at 9:04 am
isn’t it interesting to read how many others have broken family relationships? Me too — have a brother who refuses to talk to any siblings — bothers me at times but truthfully I never really liked him anyway —
Wrote: Feb 11, 2007 at 9:07 am
Rose I feel like this about my siblings. My mothers passing has left us all scattered to the wind. We try to get together one week each year and did so for the first two but slowly one or the other can’t make it. This year none of us are so it is really painful to have the glue gone that held us all together!
This post really tugged at my heart stings!
Wrote: Feb 11, 2007 at 9:45 am
You asked how one can photograph a broken heart; I was wondering the same thing for this week.
I think it could be done simply by capturing the emotion on someone’s face – pain, anguish, loss… all things that can come across clearly, but not so easily found on a whim’s notice for a photo hunt.
I think the little photo of you and your brother as children captures what you were looking for perfectly. Makes me sad just to see it.
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Wrote: Feb 11, 2007 at 9:27 pm
Beautifully written but so sad. What a loss!
I hope things between you two could change one day.
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