“We are food for worms, lads,” announces John Keating, the unorthodox English teacher played by Robin Williams in the 1989 film Dead Poets Society. “Believe it or not,” he tells his students, “each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die.” – Poets.org
So here I am..I have been sitting for nearly 2 days..sniffling, coughing..wondering if I will live …missing my family and the friends who just finished visiting me in May..a spring/summer cold in June. In JUNE!!!! Loads of language homework in front of me I can’t seem to focus on..alone.. alone..all alone..no one to baby me back to health… feeling a little sorry for myself. I mean, why wouldn’t I..
POOOORRRRR MEEEE!!!
Then.. I stumble across the Daily Post’s Challenge: Fleeting.
What an inspirational set of photos and pieces of writing. An hour disappears while I peruse other’s entries and I find myself inspired to submit a few of my own very recent fleeting moments. A few times with friends over the past few months. Happy fleeting moments that you can so easily forget about or take for granted. I have a great life and here’s to enjoying some of the most recent moments that came and went quicker than I could have imagined.
I hope you enjoy.
To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It’s at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy. – Henri Cartier-Bresson
We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any of which might say something significant. – Alfred Eisenstaedt
A few connected blogs I like.
- Weekly Photo Challenge – Fleeting (motherwifestudentworker.wordpress.com)
- Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting (momentsinyourlife.wordpress.com)
- WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting (lensandpensbysally.wordpress.com)
- Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting (memorycatcher.me)
- weekly-photo-challenge-fleeting/Fleeting Moments #photography (moondustwriter.com)
- Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting | Pictures for Froghopper
- Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting 4 Mont BeuvrayTree (chrisbreebaart.wordpress.com)
- … and a Few Water Molecules Dancing in the Sunlight | The Wanderlust Gene
- Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting (webcentrick.wordpress.com)
- Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting (joyandwoe.wordpress.com)
- Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting (francineinretirement.wordpress.com)
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- Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting | Lonely Travelog
- Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting (scillagrace.com)
- Fleeting | Views From My World
- Weekly Photo Challenge – Time is Fleeting (dianarasmussen.com)
- Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Fleeting | WoollyMuses
- Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting 3 Painted Cows (chrisbreebaart.wordpress.com)
- fleeting | yi-ching lin photography
Thanks for inviting us to your pity party – I had one a week or so ago. If we don’t have them for ourselves, no one else is going to. Hope it goes away quickly.
Ahh as soon as I acknowledge them they go away. You are so right though.. it’s good to break down and pamper oneself once in awhile.
So many happy, smiling faces!
That’s mostly why I’m thankful.
Oh you do have a great life, what a fun set of images!
Thanks for stopping by… and yes I do.
Thanks for the pingback. Good thing you packed that pity party away …
It was a small and short lived one.
This post is fabulous and how ironic because this song is one my faves’ and was to use it in a post of mine as well.. hope you do not mind… 😉
Of course not.. haha.. it’s a great song..ahh it did bring me back in time.
It sounds like you got just what you needed from your browse through the blogsphere of fleeting 🙂 hope your cold lifts soon
I did and it is.. thanks.. finally someone cares.. haha..thanks for stopping by.
Sweet you,
I’ve an award for you, for the person who you are and the things you share with the world
http://summer4soul.wordpress.com/2013/06/10/peace-is-a-free-choice-so-is-this-award/
Thank you for that..
Namasté, Summer
Thanks so much. I appreciate that.
You’re welcome. Thanks to you to. Have a peaceful day : )
Wonderful fleeting pics. I really enjoyed them. Feel better soon. 🙂
Working on it.. juices, water, teas and a tiny bit of medicine to get through class. Thanks for stopping in.
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