Book cover by Kellie Dennis, Book Cover By Design
PROLOGUE
I see memories as snapshots. People, places, everything. They’re a
part of my collective memory; my way of seeing who and what I was with a
person, or those people, at a specific moment in time. I can say, “I remember
when they looked like that” or “So, that’s what they used to look like.”
People change as time passes and photographs capture the way we grow
old. People change in appearance so slowly that we don’t often notice the
change. It happens slowly like the rising of the sun or the blooming of a bud;
so slowly that we don’t notice unless we look at pictures from the past. The
same thing happens with places, too. I look at pictures of long ago and find it
fascinating to look at a place that it is still standing after years, unchanged
in spite of everything around it, yet aged and different.
We associate different people and things with different places too.
As we experience life, we also experience our surroundings and each of us
experiences them differently even though they might be shared moments in time.
This means we recall things differently about the same people and places. Our
mind’s eye shapes them for us. My snapshots of people and places are my mind’s
eye view of them and they let me share how I see them with the world. They are,
in essence, my life in frames.
©2013-2014 Lillian McKinnon. All Rights Reserved.
This sounds like an interesting read. Can't wait for it to be published.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Anna! I'm getting very nervous but also happy and excited the closer the time gets to it being released.
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