Beautiful-Horrible

Sometimes a still life presents itself and you are there to witness it. Perhaps you are even there to photograph it. How many still life's are happening right now, unobserved? Unrecorded? Unsketched? Unphotographed? Quadrillions, I'd say, on this very block alone. Especially if you count microscopic ones. Fact is, a still life is a record of what happens when you're not around. And that reminds you of your death, which is why still life's are so annoying. And yet...there's something nice about not being around. The sun don't rise & fall on yr existence. And that's a beautiful-horrible thing.