all I need is a moment: Week 20

Monday, April 13, 2009

Week 20

All of these images were taken by different photographers across the globe at the same moment, Friday, April 8, 2009 at 4:48 p.m.

Familiar Rhythms

Cory, in Connecticut, returns to the sea, to tidepools, where sun, new seaweed growth and displaced subtidal species brought by recent storms, greet her, as if they were old friends.

RC, in Los Angeles, was setting up some shots for her ritual bookmark making. A gift for herself.

Aziza, in Kuwait, catches a playful moment with her children, taking advantage of their annual spring break, in a mall.

Kristin, in Maine, noticed, for the first time, the beautiful light dancing around a vintage glass, a piece of loveliness in her possession for years.

Flickr Group Members

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5 comments:

Abby LanesApril 13, 2009 at 12:42 PM
This is such a fabulous collage. We are all a part of a great whole aren't we! P.S. My last name ends with an S. Some guy on facebook set up a "Lanes" group to find the others. There aren't many. :-)
~Abby Lanes
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CharApril 13, 2009 at 1:05 PM
great collages
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ELKApril 13, 2009 at 6:42 PM
hello and thank you once again for sharing such visions
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elk
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kayellenApril 15, 2009 at 9:33 PM
beautiful..just stopped by and see your lovely blog:)
I am a friend of sweet Abby.

Nice to meet you.

kayellen
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UnknownApril 20, 2009 at 11:19 PM
So glad you all were able to stop by the blog. I sometimes forget to peak inside the comments, and when I do I'm so surprised to see that there are people out there who are really watching what we are doing. It's so gratifying, wouldn't you agree momenters?

Thank you Abby for the correction. I made the change and will watch that in the future.

I seem to be terrible with details so please feel free to let me know of corrections at anytime, if you like. =0)

xo Rachel.
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…began as a simple method for two friends, Rachel and Cory, to connect and inspire each other across a continental divide. It has since grown to accommodate three new friends. While the core group still maintains to the weekly Moment regime, we have opened up our project to anyone willing to embrace the moment with us whenever they can join in.

The method to our photographic madness is to randomly select (via an ingenious board game created by Cory) a day and time each week when all of us will stop what we are doing and take a photo. This project centers around "a moment" because we all believe that the moment, any moment, this moment right now, is the most important thing there is. Catching ourselves, even if we have to arrange it, in a moment in time, in our busy lives, in places so many miles from others whom we love, is like catching a bit of rest, a bit of slow down, a bit of noticing, reflecting, being. And when our photos of that being, that noticing of where, who, when, and even why we are combine, we feel connected to each other and maybe to the greater world, because we know that in that one moment, that one week, we were making the same choice to be awake and alive, together, and on our own.