Snapshots in my mind

That vacation was fabulous, but unfortunately now just a distant memory.  During that time I was, in my head, quite prolific, as I composed blog posts like a banshee, chortling at my incredible wittiness and ease at which I communicated the mundane banalities of life in such a way that the reader would say "Despite his tendency to use run-on sentences, he is quite brilliant".

Let's try that again.

Those posts are clanging around an empty room right now, as the immediacy of thinking I needed to write down all the events of my life is not so urgent anymore.  In fact it was what I needed, to just check out and enjoy relaxation for a week.  Next year we're planning on two weeks.  That will be a first.

Anywayzzz, work is work, and the summer is now over, and we enjoy the fall, with the routine of school, soccer games, Redskins, cyclocross, and maybe even a home renovation.  Mix in more time to hang with friends and family, and it's a certain recipe for good times.  Just think, we're not in New Orleans right now, nor are we trying to save our own hides in Georgia (not the Peach State, the other place halfway around the world).  Life is good, and we are lucky people.

Maybe I'm feeling this way now because I went to my first Bar Mitzvah ever today.  The emphasis on community, family, tradition, gathering, and all of that decent stuff just about cinches the thoughts that our collective lot in life right now is pretty damn good.  

Every time I go to a momentous family event I am glad that photographers are around to record these times for posterity, but I've found that there is a moment in the festivities that jars me into thinking (and it's a conscious thought) that I need to remember this image, burn it into my mind, and keep it my grey matter hard drive forever.  I've got a compendium of these snapshots in my mind, touchstones that don't relate to one another but compose the web of events in my head that become memories.  Kind of like the composite photo that is made up of hundreds of tiny photos that are pixels of the bigger picture--it's all there.