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Snapshot of the Heart

Posted by Wizzy ~

I've been thinking about this photo for months now. It's from Christmas a year ago. I love the spontaneity, the connection, the pure joy. I feel strongly about it and wanted the first WizBlog post of the year to celebrate its specialness.

Both of us love authenticity. We love to experience authenticity, and to write the same way.
This photo moves me deeply, even a year after I captured it. Yet I could never seem to find the perfect words.

When I discover others who write with great passion and authenticity, it warms my heart. I regularly search out and appreciate authentic authors, including a plethora of blog authors. When I found this 2006 entry from the fish,it described my feelings about this photo of my darlin' Woggy and our sweet Golden girl, Cirina - exactly.

There are some moments that might seem as though they never happened in the first place. A minute, an hour, a day - a span of time - when you wish you could have stepped out of yourself to view it from the outset. It was just that beautiful.

If you pay close enough attention, sometimes you actually realize ... just know ... in the middle of one of those beautiful moments that you're part of a solitary occurrence, mitigated by time, place and coincidence. By fate. A first breath, a first kiss, a first time you realize the world actually can be beautiful and perfect, if only for that one moment. And you also know it's not going to happen just that way ever again.

So your heart takes a snapshot, if you give pause to let it. And then you will always remember exactly the way the sunlight fell, or a specific shade of blue, or the hum of a refrigerator or the smell of clean cotton. Or the details of someone else's skin.

What is most intriguing about these snapshots is how easily they can provide a measure of comfort as well as one of regret - of lost opportunities, broken connections and irretrievable time.

If I had to explain, even to myself, how I felt at those moments, it could take a thousand words (as is the going exchange rate between such commodities), or it could take very few. A name. A date. A song. The color azure. The word 'inevitable.'

Life may not be replete with the moments that pause your soul, the vivid memories of which cause your heart to beat differently, or make it hard to swallow. And all the better. Much of the beauty of those moments lies in their rarity - in the awe of being in the right place, at the right time, a partaker in coincidence. And in finding a reason to believe in fate.

What snapshot moment has moved your heart?

It's the Small Things | Monterey

"Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." ~ Perry Paxton

For us, life is about authencity, love and excellence. And we thrive on details - seeking out, capturing and savoring.

From Monterey earlier this year ... [bonus points if you can spot the image with a teensy weensy upside down stop sign]

Bronze John Steinbuck bust -


 



You've heard of a 'bird's eye view' - this is a Wogg's Eye View ;=)
 

It's the Small Things | Blue Sky

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. ~ Eleonora Duse

It's hard to say if we became  photographers because of the way we see our world, or whether we see our world because we are photographers. Probably a little of each.

Capturing even the small things allows us to savor them again and again and remind us of the life in our souls.

We rarely leave home without our cameras. Backing out of the garage on our way to dinner, the pink glow reflected on our black hood. It begged to be shot. Car stopped in the middle of the street, I opened the door, raised the camera, and shot. What a magnificent creation!

It's the Small Things - Morning in Laguna

Our true home is in the present moment. To live in the present moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green Earth in the present moment. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

All things color and texture delight our senses. Sharing a few morning small pleasures ...

 



 

Golden Companions - It's the Small Things

Silhouettes produce an interesting phenomenon. Have you ever noticed that when you can't see details, and only an outline is visible, sometimes it actually gives you a clearer picture of what you see? We have decided it's because it allows one to mentally fill in the details based on one's innate intuition and experience.

Our home is surrounded by equestrian trails more foot-friendly than sidewalks for Paul's frequent runs. The elliptical machines as 24 Hour Fitness keeps my fitness level (and feet) happy, so this evening I walk behind as P and cirina run to the top of this hill. When they pause for me to catch up, I expose my shot to capture their loving bond.

George Eliot must have known how much we love our Golden girl, when he wrote, "We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment."