I am working on this Expose yourself challenge....it is supposed to be a personal growth type thing. After I wrote the post for my photography page I decided that I wanted to repost it here. There are a couple of other things that influence me...music....friendships, life in general inspires me. There are so many things that are seen so differently thru the lens of my camera.I truly love what i do! i love looking at other peoples work be it photography or writing, or art, or music, and wondering what could we do with that....how could i rock something like that. We live in such a world of creativity that it pays to be different....but I am learning to stop and smell the roses, and just be myself! to love me for who I am...and be proud of what I am!
Day 2: I am influenced by......
What am i influenced by.....First and foremost I am always inspired by my husband...An OIF/OEF War veteran who has learned to live with PTSD and TBI on a daily basis. I dont think a lot of people realize just how much it can change every aspect of your life. I am inspired by his integrity, his zest for life, and his unwillingness to give up even though life definitely gave him some lemons. Every day he gets up and faces the world and gives it all he has to give. Even on the days when we know it would just be much easier to stay in bed. I am so proud to be his wife. He never ceases to amaze me! Thank you for teaching me about courage, love and forgiveness. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to follow my dreams and pushing me when I would love to give up....for learning things just to find an easier way to teach me...for being my very best friend and holding my hand in the dark, I love you!
Secondly I am inspired by this awesome photographer who has no idea how much she has taught me. She also had some lemons handed to her and absolutely did not give up. She lost an amazing man to her a little while back and she could have ran and hid from the world. Lord knows that is what I would have done. But she chose to stand up and put one foot in front of the other and take one breathe at a time and follow her dream. A dream that he had believed in her for...enough to buy her very first camera right before he left this earth. Many people would have never picked that camera up again....but she chose to do so much more than just pick it up! She chose to see the world thru her lens, one click at a time. I think sometimes for her clicking is easier than breathing. I wish she could see herself thru my eyes. I am truly inspired by her zest for life and her ability to juggle it all and never give up. She is not only an AMAZING photographer whose work inspires me to keep pushing and learning new things behind my own lense, but she is a wonderful momma to the sweetest little boy. A little boy whom she will never ever let forget his daddy and how much his daddy loved him and how proud of him he was. There is so much more I could say about her but you get the gist.....She pretty much rocks ever single thing she does. I am so thankful to call her my friend. I never would have thought the day I met her at Helen Camp while she was taking pictures of a bride with bright pink tennis shoes that she would truly inspire the person I strive every day to become. Thank you Natalie Watson Norris for being who you are and thank you for allowing me to learn so much more than photography from you!
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Enjoy your journey..... 8/13/11-8/14/11
Who would have thunk it... I did a map on mapquest today to get directions to my cousins house for a birthday party and when I went to save it, the back reply was Enjoy your journey.... REALLY! I have been thinking about this a lot lately.
8/14/11: so it continues....
I didnt have a chance to finish this post yesterday, but I have still been thinking about the quote. how do you enjoy your journey....how do you even know what your journey is? I would like to believe that every day is a journey, that I can find amazement in something every day! I have had 35 years of a journey. Not all great, but not all entirely bad either. That journey has gotten me where I am today. Is there some of it I wish were different? ABSOLUTELY! Do I have regrets? Plenty of them. But there is nothing I can do to change what happened in the past the only thing that I can do is move past it all and continue the journey. Pray for a better day today than yesterday and a better tomorrow than today. I hope to live each day to the fullest. I want to accomplish things people said I would never do. I want to be the person that is excited about waking up every morning and making the most of the day because I dont know if there will be a tomorrow. I would like to think that if I were to die today that I would be happy with what I had done and where my life is. I have been truly blessed with an amazing husband, I have the greatest children in my life, and the best friends on the planet, not to mention a wonderful extended family. I have the opportunity to enjoy life every day with every breath I take. So I dont get to the gym as much as I like....is it really as important to me as watching one of the boys play football or do tae kwan do, or watching my husband enjoy working in his garden or T doing his best to make the most of school, or Jackie be proud of herself for passing her final while working full time. Is it as important to me as spending time with my very best friends, and trying to make a difference in the life of the children I love so much. NO! ABSOLUTELY NOT! There is nothing in this world that compares to the way my heart fills with joy when we pick Bray up from daycare and the minute he sees us, his entire face lights up and he comes running!!! My life is so full! At times I feel like I am drowning and there is not enough hours in the day to do everything that needs to be done....but the things that I have learned in the past 7 weeks, is that the todo list isnt going anywhere, it will still be there tomorrow, the laundry can be done late at night after hugs and kisses have been given, and prayers have been said and if I fall asleep on the couch watching a movie with the boys....the laundry can be done tomorrow. It's ok...I wouldnt trade it for the world. This past week I got to spend the week with one of my very best friends and her children that I love as if they were my very own. It felt like home to me. I am so thankful for the week of away from the hustle and bustle of my own life just to relax and breathe, and get back to the root of me. I had a lot of time to think, a lot of time to listen, and a lot of time to wonder. I know there are some things in my life that I want to do differently and it will take some hard work, but I think in the end it will be worth it. I have every intention of taking it slow and easy and making every day count. I am going to figure out how to enjoy this journey I call my life!
On a different note....I am back up to 222.4. Of course I thought after this week of eating pretty much whatever that I would weigh a whole lot more than that.....but I am going to try to get back on track.....One step at a time....I can do this!
8/14/11: so it continues....
I didnt have a chance to finish this post yesterday, but I have still been thinking about the quote. how do you enjoy your journey....how do you even know what your journey is? I would like to believe that every day is a journey, that I can find amazement in something every day! I have had 35 years of a journey. Not all great, but not all entirely bad either. That journey has gotten me where I am today. Is there some of it I wish were different? ABSOLUTELY! Do I have regrets? Plenty of them. But there is nothing I can do to change what happened in the past the only thing that I can do is move past it all and continue the journey. Pray for a better day today than yesterday and a better tomorrow than today. I hope to live each day to the fullest. I want to accomplish things people said I would never do. I want to be the person that is excited about waking up every morning and making the most of the day because I dont know if there will be a tomorrow. I would like to think that if I were to die today that I would be happy with what I had done and where my life is. I have been truly blessed with an amazing husband, I have the greatest children in my life, and the best friends on the planet, not to mention a wonderful extended family. I have the opportunity to enjoy life every day with every breath I take. So I dont get to the gym as much as I like....is it really as important to me as watching one of the boys play football or do tae kwan do, or watching my husband enjoy working in his garden or T doing his best to make the most of school, or Jackie be proud of herself for passing her final while working full time. Is it as important to me as spending time with my very best friends, and trying to make a difference in the life of the children I love so much. NO! ABSOLUTELY NOT! There is nothing in this world that compares to the way my heart fills with joy when we pick Bray up from daycare and the minute he sees us, his entire face lights up and he comes running!!! My life is so full! At times I feel like I am drowning and there is not enough hours in the day to do everything that needs to be done....but the things that I have learned in the past 7 weeks, is that the todo list isnt going anywhere, it will still be there tomorrow, the laundry can be done late at night after hugs and kisses have been given, and prayers have been said and if I fall asleep on the couch watching a movie with the boys....the laundry can be done tomorrow. It's ok...I wouldnt trade it for the world. This past week I got to spend the week with one of my very best friends and her children that I love as if they were my very own. It felt like home to me. I am so thankful for the week of away from the hustle and bustle of my own life just to relax and breathe, and get back to the root of me. I had a lot of time to think, a lot of time to listen, and a lot of time to wonder. I know there are some things in my life that I want to do differently and it will take some hard work, but I think in the end it will be worth it. I have every intention of taking it slow and easy and making every day count. I am going to figure out how to enjoy this journey I call my life!
On a different note....I am back up to 222.4. Of course I thought after this week of eating pretty much whatever that I would weigh a whole lot more than that.....but I am going to try to get back on track.....One step at a time....I can do this!
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