it's a smile after all

[shishi]

the thing about seeing a picture you took on the camera that you took it with is that the image frozen on there is something that was actually in front of it, once, that camera in your hand, your hand, you. there's none of the buffer of travel or transfer. it was there, & so were you, but now it's not.

it's a photograph of a great day
this was a

Comments

[basilthehamster]

julia, your thoughts are beautiful. but you are wrong: REAL does not equal present. just because he's gone does not make him any less real.
this is from the Velveteen Rabbit, it always makes me cry, but in a good way:
"What is REAL?" asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. "Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle