Life is a Slow Transforming Journey

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If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it. ~Toni Morrison



The same struggles
 that taught me to hold on for dear life
afraid of the fall
when I was young
are the same ones 
that taught me to let go 
when I became old
I am not what I was
I am less and yet I am more.

Blink of an Eye

Self-portrait, Vivian Maier

The Mag #241

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past. ~H.F. Hedge

 

It is in the moment of the click and flash

as I focus on what's before me

that the past flashes before my eyes
all memories exposed like film
and I zoom in and click
over and over again
at shutter speed
hoping
for a better
picture than the one before
yet it is so easy to blink
and capture myself
again with my eyes closed.



The future is a dark room where the film has not developed yet.  All the photographs that we took in the past are in progress waiting to become clear.  Only we can develop the negatives.  For our lives are a photograph that both leaves traces of our passage, and leads to our destination.