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Sunday, March 21, 2021

Appreciating what we will lose

Infinitely finite
London, ON
March 2021
This photo originally shared on Instagram


You know when you’re walking the dog after dinner and the setting sun is painting all sorts of magic in the sky above?

Moments like this offer up something of a choice. Either find some way to remember them. Or miss the opportunity.

So I’m sharing this hastily captured smartphone pic not because it’s kind of a profound moment (it isn’t) or even unique (nope). It’s a lousy photo of a sunset, taken with the so-called wrong camera, because that’s what I had in my pocket at the time.

No, I share it because it occurred to me as I shot it that it’s a finite experience. And because each of us only gets a limited number of sunsets - and sunrises, and hugs, and games of catch with puppies, and... - it’s up to us to not squander any more of them than we already have.

Lousy photos beget important, ephemeral moments. There’s a lesson in there somewhere, but I’ll be over here waiting for that next whatever-it-is experience.

Because they all eventually run out.

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