#the photo from russwood was in my feed today since it's july 4th and it just made me think so much

[septembersghost]

take my hand, take my whole life too

Elvis photographed in Memphis, TN, 1956 and Dallas, TX, 1976

these photos struck me being taken twenty years apart and yet the soul of them being so similar - outstretched hands reaching towards him in the light, him leaning forward in their direction in a reciprocal exchange, the touching power of that energy and shared love and expression.

it reminds me again of what Larry Geller wrote: "He was bursting with love and on stage he had a safe way of expressing it, through his music...he was reaching out, and they saw it; in their reaching back, he met them halfway. It was a love affair from the beginning, and his voice, his magic, never left him."