when words fail

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a novel is a life,
a short story a week,
a poem a second.

or at least they can be.

what we try to do
is just approximate,
to just make someone feel
as if they are there.

i try to do it with words,
and fail all the time.

jenna walker does it with photographs
and as far as i can tell, hardly ever fails.

(this post is up on the pix page as well)

the other day, jenna came over.
jenna is a wedding photographer, carley and kevin’s wedding photographer.
it was her idea. to come over, to take pictures.

she wants to do more than weddings.
and she should.

so, she sat with us and walked with us and talked with us and played with us.
she talked and listened with her eyes, her finger on the shutter,
and told our story in a way that i cannot.

here’s a slideshow of many of the pics:
http://www.jennawalkerphotography.com/slideshows/danleannelydia

and here are some individual pics from our time together.

if you’re in need of someone seeing you in this way.
jenna can do it.
we’re not this good looking.
really.

thank you for doing what i could never do,
and what, seemingly, you were meant to do -
fitting a life into a millisecond.

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