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Movie and video cameras work by displaying a series of still photos at a rate known as frames per second. So, what you are looking at is not continuous motion but rather a series of snapshots passing by your eyes at about 30 frames per second. Each one of these is a moment in time. Like a video, our entire day is made up of a series of snapshots or moments in time. How many of them do we remember on any given day? Most of us recall vividly where we were on 9/11 when the World Trade Center was destroyed by terrorists. How many of us remember where we were the day before and what we were doing. Maybe it is because we had nothing intense that happened or we did not single out any special moments on 9/10. How many of these "unmemorable" days are we willing to allow ourselves to have? Special days and moments are not just made for us, we can make them ourselves.

Consider that everyday something memorable happens that would make that day special, if we only pause in our minds and take a mental snapshot of that moment. There were a thousand special moments in my life today. Ask me what they were a week from now and I would be hard pressed to remember any of them. They get lost in the blur of the movie we are living. I stopped time when I saw my grand babies get on an old wooden yacht from 1925 in their little yellow life preservers, and hang dozens of bead necklaces around their necks. They put on felt pirate hats while the crew set the stage for a high seas adventure. On Tuesday, 29 June 2010, the little ones were pirates in Nantucket, on a wooden yacht, on the high seas. I took pictures with my camera but more importantly I took a snapshot with my mind.

What is life but a series of moments. Each one of them can become memorable if we capture it and not let it go by like a blur. If you sharpen your lens and decide that today and every day is filled with special moments, you may be able to pick out a few that you will remember forever. Click. Click. Click.