A Monument

In an article about the photographer Guido Guidi, this quote:
...memory and the photographic image are inextricably bound together. As Susan Sontag once wrote: “To remember is, more and more, not to recall a story but to be able to call up a picture.” Guidi says: “All photographs are monuments. If you photograph this cup on the table, for example, it gives it importance. And over time, photographs become more and more like monuments.”

This sunset will be for me a monument to the moment Rodrigo leaned out of his pickup and told us that an elderly neighbour of ours drove his car into the Lake lastnight and died because of family problems he could no longer cope with.

A reminder to be kind to anyone we meet; we never know what grief they may be carrying.