A Perfect Picture

"As I watched my pond one summer morning, intent on learning what attracted so many deer to its shores, the mind apparently chose its own moment for making a perfect picture, a masterpiece, which should hang in its woodsy frame on my mental wall forever."   - William J. Long in "How Animals Talk"

We all have them.  An album full of vivid and unforgettable mental images no one else has ever seen.  And though we might use a thousand words to describe one of these to another, they would never do justice to the memory.

In one sense, we are the richest people that have ever lived upon the face of the earth.  In another, we are all paupers alongside those who had next to nothing a hundred or two years ago.  For they were much more in tune - not with itunes or the mall or a host of other activities that come between us and the world we live in - but with the simple pleasures that cannot be taken away and bring peace to the soul.

Take down your album once in a while and enjoy again the images that no one else truly can.