Current No. 1 of 31 · the second half of life

The Witness

Strong in Story: making sense of the life I have lived
Growing in Talents: trusting what I have learned and can do

The Witness, an original photograph by John G. Geier III

You have held the camera for the whole family album, and you are in almost none of the pictures. It means you hold the story of the people you love, and you hold it true.

You will recognize this

Someone thanks you, and you name three other people. A photograph goes around, and you point out everyone but yourself. At the reunion you tell the best story of the night, and somehow it is about your brother. You are generous with credit, and stingy only with your own.

When a date is disputed at Thanksgiving, every head turns to you. You know who drove whom to the hospital, what the kitchen looked like before the addition, how the family got through the winter the plant closed. You let the hard years into the album, too.

This season

For decades there was no time to stand in the picture: children to raise, parents to bury, a living to make. Now the grandchildren, or the younger people in your life, ask what it was like, and every answer you give is about someone else. Step into the picture now, not for vanity, but so they know who was there.

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