Be Still Life

By Megan

The pages of my life turn so fast. I lay in my bed this morning while the smallest napped, and thought of yesterday, sweet yesterday in the park, already a chapter gone by. Everything’s ticking, ticking, ticking; even the hums and drones and whirs of everyday life measure the bars of this family’s life, lived.

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Be still so I can catch you, my mind begs the sparkling sunlight as it shimmies up and down a curl sweeping my daughter’s face. Stay right there, I beseech the gentle breeze that tickles a smiling gasp from the baby’s perfect lips.

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This is why I write; this whisking away and re-drawing of every second the reason my camera’s never far from these busy hands. The writing takes me full-circle round a moment I glanced from just one angle and shows me what else was there. Oh, how else my heart can see when I gently hold and turn a conversation, a gesture, a thought until I find and unlock the passage to its real meaning. And in photos I pin down elusive light and color against the flutter of love and laughter and purpose and concentration, and even that ugly pout turns perfect, altered by a click and a second and third look.

Time ticks backwards once, twice, forever in even an amateur’s simple studies.

I’m not an artist, just a woman reaching out to catch what is hers for now as life goes by.

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Catch more proudly amateurish words and pictures of my life, lived, at FriedOkra.

13 Responses to Be Still Life
  1. melissa
    August 24, 2009 | 3:01 am

    so beautiful!

  2. Megan
    August 24, 2009 | 9:43 am

    You captured my heart perfectly with this. So beautiful.

  3. Kellyn
    August 24, 2009 | 10:41 am

    So wonderfully writen!

  4. Beck
    August 24, 2009 | 2:27 pm

    Oh MEGAN! This post was MAGIC!

  5. patois
    August 24, 2009 | 2:40 pm

    I’m so glad I followed Beck’s tweet to hie over here and read this. Gorgeous.

  6. rachel-asouthernfairytale
    August 24, 2009 | 2:55 pm

    LOVE this! Simply love.

  7. Hannah
    August 24, 2009 | 4:37 pm

    Lovely post, Megan.

  8. feefifoto
    August 24, 2009 | 11:10 pm

    The last picture is precious. Some of the best photos are the ones where the subjects don’t even know they’re being shot. You can get a great feeling of intimacy. They’re clearly engaged with each other.

  9. Courtney
    August 25, 2009 | 8:13 am

    You have some of the most beautiful children! And you can just see the love between them.

    I love going through my camera and discovering a shot that in the moment didnt seem all that special but in hindsight shows something way more than i could have asked for.

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