Time past and time future
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present. -
T. S. Eliot
Graduation: Hillsdale College, 2007
Reason #376 Why ADD persons should have digital, and not film, cameras: There is no film to lose.
And we are at it; reason #36 why ADD persons should not own cameras made before 1952; there is no warning sign you have no film loaded, and there is no warning you still have the lens cap still in place.
But Nikon doesn’t make a better 105 lens than the one that only fits my F2.
Sooner or later I figure things out and the pictures are more than worth it.
An as for the lost film, and most things I misplace: it eventually turn up (I’m not telling where it has been sitting for the past three weeks-but dog-berry acts like ADD is just another name for defying the laws of physics and space, and time...things can’t possible get there from here...but with ADD, anything is possible. It makes life interesting.
Somehow it always works out, and I get at least one shot that makes it all worth it.
And his picture is my favorite shot of the whole weekend.
This smile on dad’s face, and other tender moments are the memories we will keep.
Others we will do our best to let fade into the mist:
• Hero’s name being left out of the program, because her graduation was in jeopardy at semester’s beginning (read here: Hero break the laws of time and space on a daily basis)
• The bevy of security guards following Bea (and me-dont ask) around the entire afternoon; It was not paranoia. I don’t care what they say; if someone is talking into their wrist watch, and you are in Hillsdale, you are “on the radar”, and background checks are being run.
• The horrendous campaign speech by Mitt Romney, and holding down Bea to prevent her from stabbing herself in the eye to distract herself.
• Hero’s cat getting underfoot and attempting to commit Grandmacide;
• Grandma being more horrified at Bea’s Obama ‘08 T-shirt than the-12 inch Monstrosity of a tattoo marring her upper back.;
• The Suzuki Saxophone quartet that could only play one song;
• The“ Hillsdale ambiance” which is a cross between “1984” and “Children of the Corn”.