Waiting in a dark theatre, waiting for Big Night to begin, watching a dark screen. There is a shoulder dressed in white on the left, and half a bespectacled man in blue on the right.

This is a photo of a small devotion.

I know the theme is “And there was great rejoicing” but I didn’t know how to take a photo of a great rejoicing. Devotion I understand better, devotion and its companion patience. I believe that one day, after all the time spent patiently in devotion, there might be rejoicing, maybe even a great rejoicing. And on that day, I will take a photograph, after the rejoicing.

Sadly, there was not a great rejoicing this week to document for you. Sure, there were small joys and small rejoicings but nothing I reckoned to be great.

I’m sorry.

Also sadly, I had to leave before Big Night ended. Happily, not before the sweetly graceful scene where the diners pull the paper from their amaretto cookies, roll brightly coloured cylinders, touch lighted match to paper, and watch the wrappers float upwards, to the ceiling.

That scene has been beautiful in my real life.

Hello, World. It’s Hello, squared.

Hello, I’m Kim. Hello, squared is a weekly photo project by myself and Julia, who was very kind to entertain a poorly articulated e.mail requesting her participation in a hypothetical Hello, squared. That was a whole week ago.

Hello, squared wasn’t even called Hello, squared back then. Back then, I wasn’t sure how this project was going to work. I am seven days smarter now, and I know Hello, squared works like this:

1.) One of us will post a theme.

2.) Both of us will have a week to take photographs on the theme.

3.) We will post the photographs here.

4.) Wash, rinse, repeat.