Sam Phillips » blog http://samphillips.com Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:30:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Self-Portrait http://samphillips.com/2009/11/18/self-portrait/ http://samphillips.com/2009/11/18/self-portrait/#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:32:43 +0000 Sam Phillips http://samphillips.com/?p=363 As I was walking around in our local museum’s exhibit of photographers’ self-portraits, a flustered woman asked if I had a pen she could use. She said she had trouble remembering things and needed to write a name down. As she tried to remember what she wanted to write, she was frustrated with herself and told me she had had brain surgery.

“After the surgery, I couldn’t read, I couldn’t talk”

“I was a surgeon”

“I used to be a tri-athelete, now I’m overweight”

I told her I thought she was doing pretty well, considering all she had been through. I said I thought she should keep getting better, keep going. She looked up from her writing and smiled a little. She thanked me for the use of the pen and then said “I should keep you around the house all the time” as she walked away.

I haven’t had brain surgery, but I understand the real and imagined pain of what was and what is now.
It may be a good idea to show your self-portrait to someone else every now and then.

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