A Photographic Time Machine
Life is about relationships. But you know this already, right?
One of the ways we maintain our interpersonal relationships is through the magic of photography. We take snapshots of our vacations, our friends, our family. We stuff them away in a shoebox and when we die, our children and grandchildren go through them and have to throw most of them away because they don't know who's in the pictures and you didn't write it down before you died.
Well, not all of them get thrown away. Some of them get posted on the Internet as glimpses into the past. Square America is a fantastic site that I stumbled across the other day. I'm spending way too much time just browsing through the hundreds of photographs of people I don't know. But I'm developing a relationship with them, just the same.
I've always loved vintage photographs (as you can tell…this blog is covered with them) and now I feel validated that others also see the value in preserving that time before the World Wreckers — those selfish Hippie monsters — ruined everything they could get their hands on.
Visit them. Spend some time. Tell anyone that comes into your work area/office/cubicle to go away, you're taking a break.
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