It’s a new day, it’s a new dawn…it’s 2010!

In the past, the prospect of a new year has brought hope, goals, resolutions, and clean slates. The beginning of this decade was inauspicious at best as I was laid up with a nasty case of strep throat. In fact, I was so under the weather that I actually forgot to bask in the novelty and freshness of not only a new year, but a new and promising decade. In order to regain that feeling, I’ve started a new project. I’m going to document what will surely prove to be a magical and glorious year by keeping a photo journal. Last year was full of changes, blessings, transitions, and missteps; however many of the details are muddy or forgotten. This year I will take a photograph every day and post it here with a brief description. Sometimes I feel like my life is a monotonous string of mornings and midnights, the hours in between being largely mundane and fleeting. But I know this isn’t true! I will seek out the blessings, the lessons, and the epiphanies and I will be grateful for them all. I once read that how you spend your time is how you spend your life. I want to make sure that I’m spending wisely and I want to remember, if not each and every moment, at least the notable ones. Dear friends, I invite you in for a peak into my world. It may not always be pretty or universally significant, but it’s mine…and that makes it worthwhile.

Happy New Year all!

*Note – I am not a photographer or the owner of a high-end camera.
The photo quality may be inferior, but the days these pictures represent are most certainly not.

Monday, March 1, 2010

February 27th, 2010 - While We Were Waiting

Tonight I had my first introduction to the work of the lovely and talented Kate Hilliard. Todd, Jenn, and I went to see her new show While We Were Waiting. I have never seen anything like it! Artistic expression through dance and movement is very foreign to me. Music and words are generally what inspire and motivate me. They are also the tools I use to express myself creatively. That being said, I'm so impressed and intrigued by the way others can create art and explore ideas using their bodies as their medium. This post is not at all intended to be a review. But I will say that I found the show provocative, captivating, and very moving. There were several parts of this piece that really resonated with me. A man precariously balancing on one foot until a woman comes to him and sets his other foot on the ground. A woman measuring the length of a man's arm and deciding whether her head will fit in its crook. I don't know if I got what I was supposed to get out of it, but I know I was spellbound. Congratulations Katie!
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