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| Efficiency at the valet stand Boca Raton, FL February 2023 This photo originally shared on Instagram |
We’re going home today, but before we jet off to the airport in Toyota’s once-vaunted vision of hybrid gas-electric transportation, we need to check out, which my wife is doing as I bring the car down from the garage. Teamwork. It’s how we roll.
The lights from the Italian restaurant across the pavestone-covered driveway catch my eye as they reflect off the dirty white flanks of our little car. In the middle of rather toney Boca, it hardly rates along the Lambos and Bentleys that drive endlessly - and loudly - to and from the beach.
But we’ve come to love this car, as it’s served us well in the time we’ve been here, asking for almost nothing as it near-silently took us wherever we needed to go.
Out comes the camera. And as I play with the angles in the middle-of-the-night silence, I think to myself that maybe this isn’t the best use of my time. That a beauty shot of a dirty rental car is probably not an optimal photographic choice. Or a life one, frankly.
But that’s kind of my jam, my strange way of remembering moments that would otherwise slip past us and forever be lost. Hastily taken photos like these serve as markers, and looking back at them brings me right back to the moments they were shot.
Maybe it’s my way of holding onto time. Logically, I know it never stops slipping past us, and no photo can ever stop, or even slow down, that process. But for two minutes in a quiet hotel courtyard far from home, I at least have to try.
I can’t ever not try.
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