It is day 3 of Tracey Clark's Picturing Fall class. And I am already enjoying it so very much. We moved around a lot when I was a kid and I have to say, some of those very same feelings of being unsure, questioning my abilities, all came back.
But as soon as I submitted my first photo, all of the anxieties washed away with all of the rain falling outside my window.
I am doing this for myself. I am on my OWN journey. Here to learn the lessons that fold out before me and only me.
Feel free to follow along if you wish. I'll be posting all of the daily shots here.
I've been reading through Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace and Learning the Hard Way by Shauna Niequist. I read her first book Cold Tangerines on the way to Nicaragua and loved it, so I knew this one would hit me in the gut as well.
I am only half-way through it and it has not disappointed.
Here's a few quotes for you from Bittersweet.
"she said it's not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What's hard, she said, is figuring out what you're willing to dive up in order to do the things you really care about."
"I stop dreaming sometimes, because I'm afraid of what it would take to change my life. I stop dreaming because I'm afraid of the chaos that a dream might bring, afraid of what a new dream will require of me. I practice being fine, and tell myself that things are all right, just as they are. They ARE all right, of course."
"Sometimes the most spiritual things we do are the most physical, the most tactile."
Happy Sunday!