Seeing Time Pass

This week, the New Yorker posted a tweet highlighting the work of Lee Friedlander, a photographer who has (among many other things) taken beautiful pictures of his wife over more than 60 years. It is an incredible testament to the way that time passes so quickly for all of us, even when it doesn’t feel that way.

If all of us could see our families documented in this way, would we be more careful to make time to spend together and to save our memories for those who come after us?

It is so easy, after all, to get caught up in the every day hustle of surviving, and to forget how astonishingly short our time together really is.

Estate planning is one of those projects that shocks us into remembering our true task at hand—to marvel at what we have, even as it slips so quickly away.

Read the story below.

The most enduring subject of the photographer Lee Friedlander’s personal memory palace is his wife, Maria, whom he married in 1958. https://t.co/c1vWKOQ0Mw

— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) July 16, 2022