evanescence

evanescence

“What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”
[Karl Lagerfeld]

Welcome!  Bienvenue!

Too many of life’s vignettes are evanescent; moments and experiences taken for granted in our busy lives, instants that seemed unremarkable at the time.  There is both delight and might in recalling life’s ephemerality.  Fortunately, though memories may be fleeting, digital files are not and - through the photographer's eye and lens -  these impressions and memory fragments often reveal themselves to be exquisite gems.

With this blog I’m hoping to document and display some of my own precious memories, moments that have a certain gravitas in my heart because they were evanescent.

For as long as I can remember, tea has been an indispensable ingredient in my life.  In our home,  something to celebrate? Plug in the kettle.  Something worrying you?  Plug in the kettle.  Four o’clock?  Plug in the kettle. Any time a guest walks through the front door, immediately plug in the kettle.  Tea is, as my mum always preached, the cure for whatever ails you.  This winter I’ve had the pleasure of reading and rereading Kakuzo Okakura’s The Book of Tea – it’s brills and I highly recommend.  I wish my mum could have read it.  Mr. Okakura urged us:
 

“Let us dream of evanescence and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.”

[Kakuzo Okakura]

Sage advice that I plan to follow.  

’Til next time, y’all…

Evanescence: Fleeting, lasting for a very short time and then vanishing, perhaps forgotten.