Who knew that photographers could get tennis elbow (more accurately, lateral epicondylitis)? I’m finally accepting that the pain in my elbow is not going to disappear without proper rest. As the old adage goes, ‘physician heal thyself’, so I’m going to put away the camera for the next few weeks until this is gone. It’s going to be hard not to chase sunsets but I have plenty of images of Marblehead that have not seen the light of day and will share those in the weeks to come – just with far shorter stories to save on typing (after this one).
With most of my outings, I return with one favorite image and a few more ‘keepers’ that quickly become delegated to the To Be Posted folder. While I’ve shared over 2,000 images of Marblehead since 2010, the To Be Posted folder currently holds 915 images that have yet to be shared. It’s time to give them their due. Hope you don’t mind that some of these will cover weeks, months or years past…
When I was looking for an image to share today, I scrolled past recent shots and stopped at this one of Marblehead harbor crowded with boats captured on September 7, 2018. When I come home with shots like this, I like zooming in to find boat names and sometimes use that in the title. As I clicked on the middle of the image and looked past the Boston Whaler, I found the word Dyaynu and smiled.
I was born in Israel and so Hebrew was my first language. Dyaynu should be instantly familiar to jews and non-jews alike as it forms the basis of a Passover song. The word roughly translates to ‘it would have been enough’. The Hebrew slang term ‘dai’ (pronounced like die) means ‘stop’ and is derived from the longer word. It seemed fitting then that this (hopefully brief) pause to new photos should start with the word Dyaynu written on a boat captured at sunset in our beautiful harbor.