Persuasion of Beauty

I’ve been jealously eyeing other blogs.  Blogs with pictures that influence me; pictures, so beautifully angled, that they convince me to act.  You want me to try your cookie recipe?  Go ahead, post one artfully placed photograph of your poetic flour dusted across a wooden spoon, and before I read the caption I am in my kitchen, pulling my own stained wooden spoons out of the drawer, determined to recreate this fantasy you’ve sucked me into.

One blog showed sneakily angled photos of a couple getting married at a courthouse, and the next thing you know I am on the phone with my engaged cousin trying to convince her to exchange vows in front of the Justice of the Peace, and as long as she wears the same hat as the lady in the blog, and as long as they get some photographs of a studious clock in the background with the hands striking just so, it’ll be so beautiful.

I study.  I pick up things here and there.  I implement them.  I’ve learned I am easily persuaded if the object of the picture is placed upon old wood.  Anything photographed from a severe angle melts me immediately.  Add something old-fashioned, I’m yours.

Behold…the beauty of the mortgage…

ponder…

apply…

trust…

settle…

nest…

If this worked, please write “Just the Assistant’s Artistic Mortgage Photo Inspiration Collection” in the referred by section of your loan application.

Off to bake those cookies…