A Snapshot in Time

Media, media, media and not a time to think! I don't want to go into a diatribe of society but I can't help but take a moment and say that my brain is overloaded by media. I prefer not to read any text more than one page on the internet due to the fact that it hurts my eyes to look at a computer screen for more than ten minutes. Now that the semester has started at school, one of my first assignments was to read a 34 page text on Enlightenment for my masters class in media studies. Of course that 34 page text was an online file. Yikes. The past few days have been spent reading PDF's and word documents on theory's and ideas that with every line read my face gets closer and closer to the screen, as if I was being sucked into the media vortex.

I need to take a break. Reset my focus.



Here is a snapshot in time. Nothing spectacular is happening but something that the picture cannot convey is what the taker of the picture sees. This picture comes from Karl's office and I took it from behind a piano that is in the middle of the room. Aubrey is preparing some slides for the sunday morning service. This is an intimate moment in time, where true physical expression is personified in a minor action. There is focus yet at the same time a comfortableness.

We may be graced by beauty in high stylized concepts and deliberate juxtaposition but it is possible that beauty just is. As the rocky mountains will stand day after day, without the need for make-up or cosmetic tools to make them look better, so are the intimate moments in time which flee like a syllable already spoken.