{"id":891,"date":"2011-06-10T13:44:17","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T17:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/choosingcomedy.wordpress.com\/?p=891"},"modified":"2011-06-10T13:44:17","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T17:44:17","slug":"891","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.choosingcomedy.com\/?p=891","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>My old phone was giving me trouble. I have three kids in their 20s and we don’t talk on the phone as much as we text via phone. And the buttons on my old phone were only working intermittently, which made for some unique messages since I didn’t always get the letters I was trying for.<\/p>\n

So I “upgraded”. \u00a0New phone, for free, as long as I promise my undying allegiance to my phone company for two more years. \u00a0Why not?<\/p>\n

But changing phones is a bit of a chore these days. \u00a0I don’t know anyone’s phone number any more. \u00a0I dial by name. \u00a0And my “contacts” are quite numerous. \u00a0So those have to be transferred to the new phone.<\/p>\n

And then there are the messages. \u00a0And calendar. \u00a0And photos.<\/p>\n

This is not going from a chunky rotary dial phone to a sleek princess push button phone. \u00a0That just required unplugging the old and plugging in the new. \u00a0This transition is a technological event.<\/p>\n

Especially the photos. \u00a0I hate the idea of losing photos. \u00a0Sure it may just be a fraction of a second in time, but it captured someone I love and I don’t want to give it up. \u00a0Olan Mills loved to see me coming.<\/p>\n

So I have spent the morning texting photos from my old phone to my email address so I can download them on my computer.<\/p>\n

Processing all those photos reminded me of a joke my husband and I used to make when we would attend social events without our kids. \u00a0When asked about our children we would proudly produce a photo or two of our smiling cherubs. \u00a0If pressed as to why they weren’t with us we would answer, “Because they are so well-behaved in photographs.”<\/p>\n

And that is the beauty of photographs. \u00a0And the temptation.<\/p>\n

I am sorely tempted to sit at my computer all day and just look at pictures. \u00a0Pictures of smiling faces. Younger, fresher faces. \u00a0We are all so still in the photos. \u00a0It’s all very contained. \u00a0Memories. \u00a0Events.<\/p>\n

It may have been hot the day the photo was taken, but I can’t feel it today.<\/p>\n

Who knows what all was swirling around emotionally at the time the picture was snapped. \u00a0All I see is the fraction of a second recorded. \u00a0And it’s very doable. \u00a0I can live there.<\/p>\n

Two of the photos from my old phone were of something I wrote at a wedding last year. \u00a0It was the wedding of one of the boys who grew up with my kids on our street. \u00a0One of the Five Points Family as we call ourselves. \u00a0It was nostalgic and sweet and had meaning for us…<\/p>\n

Once upon a time there was a special place in Redford…where little rascals drove a Blur, and played for the Stanley Cup, and grew to be strong in the Force by kicking the can. \u00a0Autumn was festive and eggs were hunted, and the night sky was bright in July. Grass would not grow there but children thrived and so did love, and the harvest yielded memories galore.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Auld lang syne. \u00a0Days gone by. \u00a0Moments passed, yet captured. \u00a0Memories.<\/p>\n

I am tempted to live there.<\/p>\n

But I won’t. \u00a0I will push myself away from this keyboard. \u00a0(Now that I have saved all the photos.) \u00a0And I will boldly go where I have not yet gone…<\/p>\n

Into the next moment. \u00a0I will dare to live in the unknown of the next moment. \u00a0And I will take my camera, and capture some fractions of those moments.<\/p>\n

And I will wait for the day when these as yet uncaptured moments are the moments of days gone by. \u00a0When they will seem safe and comfortable and nostalgic.<\/p>\n

And I will look at them and think, Look how well-behaved we all are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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