If I iron them out, can I smooth back over time?

Today’s Photohunt theme is “Wrinkled.”

And that’s how time feels to me, suddenly. Like it’s been wrinkled. Or folded like an accordion.

Like it is filled with the skips in an old, worn record. The vinyl spins over and over and the details of the songs are faded; sometimes, even large sections of lyric are missing. I’m left with sudden, blurted words and jolting rhythms that hop from one point to the next…

Photo by Athena Carey, lifeprintsphotography.com

Will the folds between the wrinkles be deeper the older I get?

Will the skips in the record become so broad that the melody is lost almost entirely?

Have to find a way to hold on to the details… I like this song too much.

You know you want to nibble him.

Theme for January 5th, 2008: “Delicious”

What could be more delicious to a Mommy than the sweet days gone by? The dwindling memories… stirred by photos…

…of a first-day-on-earth fuzzy face…

…or a shiny, new baby-belly-button?

How about a chubby baby cheek…

…a pair of tiny, delicate fists…

…or those little, tender footsies?

His complete, beautiful, amazing innocence.Something that will last for awhile more, yet.Perhaps bitter-sweet, yes. But sweet, none-the-less.That little, tiny baby is now lost among the early memories of his existence… but certainly not forgotten.

I almost weep when I revisit these. He is tender… sweet.

Delicious.