Today

"Her mother was furious. She was ecstatic. Both of them were completely right."

Joy · Witnessed

"Everyone walked around it. I stopped. That's all."

Passing Through · Witnessed

"They've been friends for fifty years. I know because I asked."

Tenderness · Recognition

"Every person in this photo is going somewhere urgent. None of them will ever know they're here."

In Between · Passing Through

"He was singing while he worked. I could see the song in his hands."

Unselfconscious Joy · Tenderness

"She was reading the obituaries. She didn't look sad. She looked like someone who had learned to hold sadness without being crushed by it."

In Between · Waiting

"He was eating in the rain and he looked like the happiest person I'd ever seen."

Solitude · Tenderness

"His opponent died six months ago. He still comes every Tuesday."

Solitude · The Weight

"I don't know what he was looking at. I've stared at this for a year."

Witnessed · The Weight

"She was crying, quietly, in the way people do when they've decided it's okay. I waited until she looked peaceful."

In Between · Recognition

"I was lost. Not metaphorically. And then I saw this and stopped being afraid."

Passing Through · Solitude

"I sat here for an hour waiting for someone who didn't come. This is what waiting looks like from the outside."

Waiting · In Between