Moments Fixed in Time
Are there some images fixed in your mind, a photo-catalogue of the imagination, of events that had significance in your life? Those split seconds where you noticed something amazing, or in which everything was changed irrevocably? The instant in which something changed your life completely: everything once whole was broken or everything broken restored to wholeness The moment a birth changed you from just a person to "parent," the Moon Landing, the days in which Space Shuttles exploded either coming or going, a horror that was replayed in video over and over again until you were numb but the images were indelibly impressed in your psyche? the assassination of political leaders (JFK, Bobby, MLK, Benazir Bhutto) a first kiss news about the death of someone close to you a marriage proposal 9-11 catching site of the Eiffel Tower for the first time knowing FOR CERTAIN that your prayers have been heard and answered even if in ways you never anticipated It seems like our lives are...