The Real Green Machine

What is REAL?, asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. ... more

by Connie Handscomb

Title

The Real Green Machine

Artist

Connie Handscomb

Medium

Photograph - Photography - Fine Art

Description

"What is REAL?", asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room.

"Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?"

"Real isn't how you are made", said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you, when a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real."

"Does it hurt?", asked the Rabbit.

"Sometimes", said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt."

"Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or bit by bit?"

"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't often happen to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."

~ Margery Williams [fr. The Velveteen Rabbit, or How Toys Become Real]

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This quotation is taken from one of my very favourite books, which has been at my bedside for several years now. It came to my mind as I was preparing to upload this image, because this brilliant green coloured vintage car, parked on a residential street in Havana, was very, very real, as many of the cars in Cuba are. They are painted and refurbished, and upkept year after year after year, with makeshift parts, improvised if need be to keep them running. In fact, just in front of this car were two men working hard on another car, tools in hand, fixing, adjusting, ensuring theirs would be ride-worthy again.

As I've said in the past, I'm not too familiar with cars, or types of models .... this may be a _____ (fill in the blank) :))

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♥ Heartfelt Gratitude to FAA groups for featuring this image :

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February 4th, 2016