Photo was taken a few days ago in March 2014 while on Constitution Avenue, in Washington, DC
Visiting the same place 29 years later.
We never know if or when we’ll return to the places we’ve been before.
Not only do places change, but people change, too — even though the changes aren’t readily apparent from day-to-day. The gradual lapse of time not only gives one a greater sense of perspective about things but allows us to re-examine the deeds we’ve done in the past. Wisdom often comes with a mandatory preamble, “Looking back now….”
Time may indeed be infinite. But all life and living are certainly finite. Each day we grow a little older, and hopefully a bit wiser. Meanwhile, the places around us change. Just as we change, they are never truly the same as before.
Photo taken a few months after graduating from college and moving to Washington, which was in May 1985 — nearly 29 years ago.