{"id":2841,"date":"2015-01-29T23:13:26","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T04:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=2841"},"modified":"2015-01-29T23:15:07","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T04:15:07","slug":"memory-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=2841","title":{"rendered":"Memory Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"

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How could I possibly have known.
\nThat is what I said tonight.<\/p>\n

I’ve decided to revisit some of my old images for a little while.\u00a0 At least from time to time.\u00a0 I literally have boxes of Hard Drives, in my office, filled with tens of thousands of images I have taken in recent history.<\/p>\n

Many of those, I will probably never look at again.\u00a0 My method for organizing them comes down to one line:\u00a0 “Oh.\u00a0 I’ll get to that later.”\u00a0 Sure, I have them all backed up.\u00a0 More than once.\u00a0\u00a0 But there is no rhyme or reason to them, mostly.<\/p>\n

This evening, as I began to explore a random hard drive, I found this photo.\u00a0 Happenstance.\u00a0\u00a0 And when you find a photo, you begin to find memories.\u00a0 Like it, or not.<\/p>\n

Two years ago, this month actually, we took a trip to Hawaii for Mary’s 60th birthday.\u00a0 The family went.\u00a0 It was joyous. …. a tremendous trip. We had so much fun.\u00a0 Great company, great weather, food, and adventure.\u00a0 So. I saw this photo and remembered the exact day…. walking on the beach with Levi.\u00a0 I stopped and shot this photo of a shell… because I thought it looked like a face.\u00a0 He concurred.<\/p>\n

A few minutes later, my phone rang, and it was my brother.\u00a0 He called to tell me Dad wasn’t feeling well, but that everything was okay.\u00a0 Dad had recently had a bout with pneumonia, and was, once again, having a low period.\u00a0 At 90 years old, he never been seriously sick before.<\/p>\n

I asked if I should come home, and Jerry said, no way, no how.\u00a0 All was okay.\u00a0 So we stayed the remaining 4 days of the trip.\u00a0 I went back to shooting on the beach.\u00a0 And there I was…. never imagining that in 2 months… my Dad would be dead.<\/p>\n

Yes, we just don’t know the things we don’t know.\u00a0 I had written something completely different tonight about acceptance of being in the moment … until I found this photo.\u00a0 But that is what my photo told me once again.<\/p>\n

It reminded me to remember…. just how important it is to cherish the moment we are in…. whether it is on a beach in Hawaii, or spending the night in a dark hospital room … holding my Dad’s hand.<\/p>\n

I am not sure how many more of my old photos I want to revisit.\u00a0 I am not so sure at all.<\/p>\n

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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.\u00a0 —\u00a0 Aeschylus<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How could I possibly have known. That is what I said tonight. I’ve decided to revisit some of my old images for a little while.\u00a0 At least from time to time.\u00a0 I literally have boxes of Hard Drives, in my office, filled with tens of thousands of images I have taken in recent history. Many […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nowyouseeit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2841"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2845,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2841\/revisions\/2845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}