Some Pictures

Some pictures sit on the desk or the escritoire and mean something different each time you look their way. If you have the type of pictures that most people have in these places, they are probably of some event: a wedding, a birthday celebration, something like that. Or simply of an important person - a spouse, a child, a friend, a pet, even yourself.

And each time you look at the picture, even if you've looked at it a million times, so much so often that it seems a part of the surroundings, as familiar and immutable as the colour of paint on the wall, aren't there still occasional moments, perhaps at a specific part of the day, when the afternoon fading sunlight hits it just right, when that picture, so familiar, looks altogether new?