Soul Deep Sentiments

Summary

Amanda Wilson reflects on the profound impact of a friend's memory through a photo and invites others to share their own soul-deep sentiments in a 6-word photo story challenge.

Abstract

The article "Soul Deep Sentiments" by Amanda Wilson is a poignant reflection on the enduring legacy of a friend named Cori, who passed away. Wilson shares a photo of herself wearing a shirt with an image of Cori, taken at a spiritual retreat. The shirt bears Cori's last Facebook post, "Today was beautiful," which encapsulates her life philosophy. Wilson describes the serendipitous discovery of the shirt during a moment of stress, interpreting it as a message from Cori to appreciate the beauty of life. Moved by this bittersweet moment, Wilson issues a challenge to other writers and creatives to capture their own deep emotions through a 6-word photo story, with the aim of sharing moments that have touched their souls.

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Wilson views the unexpected rediscovery of the shirt featuring Cori as a sign to pause and cherish life's beauty amidst stress and uncertainty.
The author holds Cori's life philosophy in high regard, seeing it as a guiding principle for appreciating each day.
Wilson believes that a photograph, paired with just six words, can convey profound personal sentiments and emotional depth.
The challenge set forth by Wilson is intended to foster a sense of connection and shared experience among participants, highlighting the universal nature of deep emotional responses.

Bittersweet 6-word photo story…

Life yet lived,

spirit passed,

beautiful.

This is a photo of me, wearing a shirt picturing a friend who passed away a little over a year ago. The irony of this photo…a person whom I knew for too short a time smiling over the swelling of a life of a person I’ll know forever (if you can’t tell, I’m pregnant). Her name was Cori. I knew her so briefly, having met her at a spiritual retreat dedicated to the honoring of the Celtic goddess, The Morrigan. This shirt displays the last words she posted on Facebook, words that so succinctly communicated her approach to life: Today was beautiful.

I found this shirt in the most unexpected of places — I knew I had put it in a drawer, but the other day, when I was stressing out over money, over time, over my growing family, I found it laying on top of a hamper. It was as if Cori was telling me to just stop and remember:

Today was, is, and always will be, beautiful.

In light of this incredibly bittersweet moment, I decided to pose a challenge of my own: A 6-word photo story of soul-deep sentiments.

Rules:

original photo

subject must represent, symbolize, or otherwise capture that which touched your soul on some level, in some way

6 words to capture how you feel, what you see, or otherwise reflects what that photo means or how it reached you on a soul-deep level.

tags to include: Photostory, Soul

optional: tag other writers to continue the challenge.

I’d love to see some Soul Deep Sentiments from: