Postcard from Thursday – July 27, 2017

Learn from History

Driving along a secondary road near our home, I frequently pass by this solitary windmill.  It always makes me think of the farm or ranch that used to be where it remains.  But, the people who lived there have moved on.  Different skills were learned and people then left.  Conversely, I think about things today – the way people are sometimes clamoring for situations that their parents and grandparents worked hard to overcome.  And, the old saying is true – “Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it”.  Let us learn from our history, and not keep making the same mistakes over and over.  To create this journal page, I converted an image of the windmill to a colored pencil drawing, added text and other texture elements.  It’s rather simple, but then so is the base image.

Learn from History

Enjoy!