All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person's (or thing's) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.
I am alive to learn and unlearn,
to relearn and unlearn and learn again
I am here to unpack and develop and understand the value in struggle
I am here to hold my grief the way it deserves to be held for as long as that takes
I am here to learn that there is no judgment where there is love
I am here to understand that I am not small
I am here, and I am learning that this is a big thing