When we write a memoir, we are looking through a particular lens for each vignette or chapter. We find a way to focus that lens on the important moments, images, details, feelings, and action--which is a kind of meditation on time, a meditation on vision, seeing, knowledge. When you take a photograph, your image is framed, and this framing brings it to the fore, it makes you see the world in a different way than you would if you were not using that lens as a way to frame your comment on the … [Read more...]