Why do I take pictures?

"Parents usually mark their children's first-first food, first words, first steps-but lasts often slip by unnoticed. I don't remember the last time I carried my son up the stairs in the crook of my arm. Or the last time I read him a bedtime story, closing the cover of Goodnight Moon when I was done. Or the last time he and I kissed on the lips or crossed the street hand in hand. Or the last time he called me 'Daddy.' I don't remember because I didn't know it was the last time. Had I known, I would have cherished it more. I would have held on tighter."
exerpt from Edward Warner in Sun Magazine

This is why I take pictures.