Elizabeth Taylor
from the hip
On the 11th of April, as the afternoon light slanted down on a park in Seoul, South Korea, a green-eyed woman I don’t know took a photograph of a couple she didn’t know as that couple walked arm-in-arm toward two young girls they didn’t know who were posing on a stone plinth for a photograph being taken by still more people unknown to the young couple, unknown to the green-eyed woman, unknown to me.
We are all linked now, all linked by that moment of spontaneity, all linked by that fraction of a second in which the afternoon light was frozen for future consideration. That afternoon light will be shining at just that angle forever; those two girls will be posing on that plinth forever; that couple will be arm-in-arm forever. It will be now forever.
The world is a grand, huge place, yet all it takes to link us all together is a green-eyed woman with a camera. We don’t know each other…will never know each other…but we are forever linked. The two young girls, the young couple, the green-eyed woman, me, and now you.
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