The terrible and the wonderful

At 5:30 this morning instead of sleeping I was thinking that certain photographs become markers in   life and  this was the day to talk about that.   First the terrible :  John Kennedy killed 44years ago..the world changed.    Then the wonderful: My family going to the Red Shutter Inn for Thanksgiving dinner 1964     Everybody has special  images stored in their brains and those  pictures mark a life’s path.  Before and after become palpable, as do joy and grief. Somehow, photographs make the remembering  easier and that is one reason that I am a  documentary photographer.