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momentary song obsession

(the photo is just one from the bottom drawer of edits)

as i work...

one of last fall's clients are buying prints
going through the photos i rediscover this face

she's so young
so easy
so brinking

that seemingly forever time of being girl
girl through to your pith

this woman remembers that time with fondness

on being

"it blew me away"

how many times have i heard or said that?

read this quote in a book...
and it had never stopped me before.
then i realized...
when we are amazed,
awed,
surprised,
in a way, we have ourselves (Me) blasted aside.

it's an apt saying.
when moments of great beauty, joy or even shock are made known;
then the mask of Me is momentarily absorbed by that moment,
Me ceases.

i'd always taken this expression as...
"blown like a tumbleweed by a force of greatness."
and in my head the camera pans to follow Me pushed aside so roughly.

but in truth,
the focus is on the moment.
Me ripped aside,
like a frail, clouded tissue on the lens.

it's the same for:
"I lost myself in the moment"
or
"forgot myself"
If thou could empty all thyself of self, Like to a shell disinhabited
T.E.Brown

i am delighted when words gain depth.

*smile*

The White Darkness

Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To know that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
Robert Frost

it glowed behind the librarian
she paused during checkout to retrieve it

i am one of those people
i'll buy a film, book, album based on a cover
*shrug*
that blazing white
alluring gold seal
it's the perfect size
the perfect font spacing
it's a pleasure to be seen with

often as not this approach is misleading
but sometimes...
not

i loved this book

it has some modern crass moments
but most of it is sharp and vivid
the author is wellread; a wordsmith
she's not apologizing for anything
her characters are real
you hear unwritten words

can't go wrong with an opening quote such as this

"there's a sweet bird calling..."

High on a hill,
And way up yonder,
All come together,
Are you in or are you out,
The eleventh day was hell,
But the heart grows stronger,
All come together,
And be in no doubt.

song of now:
♫ high on a hill: Kate Rusby ♫
with Chris Thile

golden

(click on iphone collage to enlarge)

the day i turned 23
we went to the park
caught tadpoles
waded upstream
got sunburned
swung

it was epic

last weekend

went down south to visit my favouritist almost-family

wore this at the Urban Outfitters
(which i was overly ecstatic about)



sun night we reverently did this


i held this bit of adorableness



drove home with the windows down
while listening to children's book on tape



hurrah for blessings tangible