I’ve never been one to follow the rules. Just ask my parents, or husband … or even my children for that matter. And so … as I embark on this 365 project … it feels limiting … and I want to include two {or more} pictures, not just one, and then I want to skip a day because it’s 9pm and I haven’t taken my picture for the day yet … and then I feel like I have to find something … but make it look ‘in the moment’ … or does it matter if it looks staged? Ugh. That’s not something I want to worry about. It does not keep my life simple.
If you’re following on instagram … or flickr … you’ll notice I’m up to 11 … but it’s only the 10th … because I see things – and I want to include them. I realized last night that I wasn’t actually enjoying the project and the requirement of just taking a picture a day … too much pressure … too limiting … and yet too random. The self portrait project in 2012 had perimeters … which helped guide my ideas. 365 … just feels random and loose and restricting all at the same time. And so … in light of my thoughts in the previous post with regard to the one thousand gifts, and living simply I thought I would turn the project into a visual journal of what I “see” and treasure and am grateful for … it could become a visual collection of moments that made my spirit smile in 2012. Sometimes there are no words … just a picture … a picture that may not need words. That is more me.
Then I began to feel like … to be required to take a photo a day … some days there are 6 things that speak to me … some days I get caught up in busy and I don’t take the time to “see” the moments. And so … I will not be limited to the daily … but I will be aware and adding to my visual journal of 1000 gifts throughout the days and weeks to the end of the year. The point is not to capture 1000 images this year … it is only to capture the moments that make my heart sing under the umbrella of the one thousand gifts theme. Just peeks will be published here on the blog – but all will be collected on Flickr! I’ve added a button in my footer for easy linking.
And so it evolves.
And the project stays fun … and reflects me … and my life remains … simple.
:: thankful for fingerprints on windows and early morning conversations drenched in sunshine ::
103. … daughter’s milky skin in the sunshine
104. … sweeping piles of beautiful red hair after haircut night
105. … fingerprints on windows
106. … softness of clean cotton sheets
107. … sun in my eyes
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