Obstacles

Today a lunch meeting, tomorrow a lunch date.  How to take photos without time?  I’ll have to try to fit it in this morning & next before work.  Trying to ignore the forecast of snow again, now that most of it has melted. From my understanding, the new stimulus package would help me immeasurably – if I hadn’t been paying my bills, but since I have, it won’t.  This is a random post, but the other thing on my mind is my joy of leaving work and finding that it was not totally dark yet yesterday.  I started my knitting project last night and it felt good.  I hadn’t knit for nearly a year.

The Calm Before the Storm

Another snow storm is predicted for tomorrow. Bleh! This has been a rough winter. Re-framing…I’m grateful that I have been able to find somethings that are either beautiful or at least interesting every day even with the wretched weather. I’m grateful that I have been able to communicate with other photographers many miles away. Now if I could just find some boots, so that dealing with four feet of snow wouldn’t be so bad.

Weekend

After a rough week at work and a lot of sleep last night, I am so excited to have three days off and my mind is racing about learning new photo techniques and crafty projects I want to do. It’s hard to explain, but with all the crap that happened last year and dealing, always dealing with surviving, I felt sort of dead inside and now I don’t. I’m dealing with all sorts of survival stuff as per usual, but now a whole new dimension has re-opened and I feel excited and alive (sometimes) and don’t want that feeling dead inside to resurface. Who would have thunk that the world of blogging would have had such an effect. Between these morning pages, my photoblog and reading other’s blogs – it’s a whole new happy place. yay
And let me not forgot the joy in it being W’s last few days in office and actually feeling hope for this country again. double yay!

Last Day

2008 is drawing to a close and since it’s been a tough year, I’m not sad to see it go. I’m not one to make resolutions for the new year, but feel that these morning pages and my photo blog have been very helpful to me, so I hope to continue. Of course I hope to live a more balanced life – inch by inch it might be possible. Happy New Year!

A Positive Note

Today will be my seventh day of photo blogging – a photo a day – and I’m finding this frustrating (lack of light / lack of time), but also very fulfilling. It’s opening up my eyes and senses in the darkest time of the year.

A Photo a Day

In my sleeplessness last night, I decided to stop feeling jealous of people who make one art object per week or knit one square per day. Since I have been able to write something every morning lately, it’s time to start a photoblog of a photo a day. This morning it’s dark and sleeting and there’s no real light and a busy day ahead, so I am doubting my decision this morning. Thinking about cheating and end up with seven photos a week, but not one per day. Hmmm. Something to ponder, that’s a whole lot more interesting than the things I have to do today.