I sometimes feel like piecing together digital photos, music, and meaningful text is an artistic expression.  There’s so much movement and feeling when you put something to music, it’s just incredible.

I’m putting the last touches on a wedding slideshow for Nick’s cousin, Janell, who is getting married in the beginning of May.  I love looking through the lives of people in pictures.  It gives me a glimpse of how beautifully unique and yet common our lives are — and how much love between families can be revealed in a parade of chronologically placed photos.

Have you ever built a slideshow?  It’s one of the things I consider myself a master with — the art of timing, format, synchronicity, color, music, transition, message, theme, age, and milestone.

It’s a work of art, truly.

If you ever need an exercise to reflect on how fast time goes and how relationships grow with time, offer to build someone a slideshow.  As you move from birth to gradeschool, dating photos and family trips, you’ll be amazed at how much you can get to know someone by setting their life to music.