Seconds of Beauty

My friend Tara just introduced me to an app called 1 Second Everyday that helps you record and assemble a video of a second of your life for the rest of your life (or year, or month, or whatever!).  I've always been fascinated by these quick snap shots.  The video below is from a couple of years ago before this was such a "thing." I still love it!

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This video is inspiring. If you love to celebrate "the journey and not the steps" or the "forest and not the trees," this video shows a different perspective. It celebrates the tiny parts of life. Sometimes, the most beautiful and poignant moments can be captured in a single second.

This video compiles sixty such moments.

Sixty seconds.

Watch it and see how many of these you've noticed...

Seconds Of Beauty - 1st round compilation from The Beauty Of A Second on Vimeo.

I'm tempted to make my own compilation of sixty seconds of beauty. (My calendar and attention span say "NO!" Alas, to this dream.) Still, if I were to make a compilation video of beautiful seconds, here's a partial list of what I would add:

• the school bus changing gears to make it up the hill on our street
• the tap, tap, tap of my kids toothbrush on our sink
• the rattle and shudder of the garage door opening
• the "dog bells" on our back door as our pup tells us that he needs to go out
• the flap of hummingbird wings (Uh, good luck getting THAT shot!)
• the click of the gas coming on the stove-top burners
• the croak of north Georgia frogs in the night
• the sound of Mack chewing his dog bone
• the peaceful hum of anyone in my family sleeping
• my little girl's squeak when she is laughing so hard she can't breathe
• the crash of a wave on a beach
• the ice cream truck driving down the street
• the thump of my husband's feet coming up the stairs
• the way my son says "Mom-mee"
• a sliding glass door closing
• a coyote howl (As a child I used to hear those at night)

And that's just sixteen of the seconds!