"Voice of a stranger"
Have you ever had a stranger tell you something you would never forget?
I met Arnie on a Saturday afternoon when I stopped to take a picture of his newborn calves. Out in the middle of “no-where” Iowa on a small farm, Arnie and I talked. It was mostly Arnie doing the talking and me doing the listening. He talked about many things. He spoke candidly about his life and seemed to encapsulate 82 years all in about 45 minutes. In the midst of his words he revealed happiness, humor and love... and his own, now terminal, mortality. His resolve to help others is/was and always had been strong, as I understood it.
This picture of Arnie may be his last and in my thinking, represents all of what is true of a man who has worked hard helping others, his entire life. Arnie, a stranger, voiced his thoughts that day leaving me with something heard and an image made.
