...or the sunrise over the ocean.
17th Avenue Beach, Belmar, New Jersey
May 28, 2021
A moment in time so perfect, so serene, and so complete, you pray in your heart of hearts for it to last forever. Knowing all the while that it will not. Knowing all the while that it cannot.
Its impermanence does not cause you to appreciate it less. Rather, it causes you to cherish it forever...
The late, great Joanie K. and her youngest child
(way back when before my beard went gray)
You notice your mom
Staring back from a photograph
And quick as you turn
You're certain you hear her laugh.
"The Music is Hot"
John Hiatt
...and the cherished memory of the person you think of every time you look at it.
-AK
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