Having more time to reflect is a nice perk. Avoiding, mistakes of the past, and taking advantage of knowledge gained along the way. Knowing the important things are love and connections. Helping enrich the lives of those close and sometimes perfect strangers.
I’m focusing better on what I’m trying to accomplish. Inspired more each day to create and produce. I look forward to getting up each day like never before. An appreciation for all I’ve been given, in length of time and opportunities.
So it’s a great start to a Tuesday morning. One that I won’t waste. I don’t want to miss an interaction, a smile, a laugh, a tear, or a picture.
I must look like a child when I’m shooting, like watching a young one discover. I try to think about that when I’m photographing. I’m wandering, looking in all directions, stopping suddenly when something catches my interest or I hear a sound. I can look at something that nobody else sees anything to look at but I see a spaceship in how those branches in the tree merge. I look at the sky and see a pattern in the clouds or a bird. And down at my feet for no specific reason and, walk forward at the same time. I can park myself in a spot taking in everything around me or run forward at full speed towards the screening fire engine pulling out of the station.
Not as fast as I used to be, I didn’t catch it leaving. Photo by Mike Hartley
Random Thoughts of the Day
- That bright sky this morning is hiding a deceptively cold start.
- You can sleep in a recliner. But you will regret it.
- I’m going to pit my smarts against a young child today. The outcome is in doubt.
- Don’t you hate remembering something you needed to do a week ago and still not having the time to get to it immediately?
