Photo by Jenny Stein


Here   is another lifetime squeezed into two minutes and 16 seconds. What rivets me is the near universality of the experiences they capture in less time that it takes you to read this message.

Many of us fall in love, and feel the euphoria of that emotion. Marriage is part of the script for a lot of us, and the celebration that surrounds it. Not everyone has a baby it is true. But most of us feel a tug for toddlers, and their first faltering steps. Perhaps you too have traveled, and explored the mystique of foreign lands.  All of us must face the inevitable loss of someone who was once vibrant, and is taken from us.

Personally, it smacks up against my own case of denial. I reassure myself that I will skip the frail stage, and slide out the back door of this life with my grace intact. But this brief and wordless tableaux suggests to me that perhaps, it is not such a travesty to die in the arms of the child who once fit in yours.