Elijah: "I want a Popsicle."
Granny: "What's the magic word?"
Elijah: "Hocus pocus!"
That is a magic word. And he was totally serious. So I gave him a Popsicle :-)
"All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt."— Susan Sontag