big thoughts


me overlooking bryce canyon on may 3rd 2019

it's been a low key but good day.  after my morning scripture study and blogging i was settling down to edit photos and i started to reach for the remote to put something on to watch.  but then i stopped and asked myself, "do i really want to watch something?"  and self was like, uh-uh, head shake, no, nope, naw.  about half an hour before i had been thinking that my life could benefit with some more positivity.  i mean, i don't always realize the negative dialogue that is happening inside.  i just catch it sometimes.  so in that moment that i realized i didn't want to be distracted with watching something, i remembered that thought, and i thought "positivity.  what about that positive psychology guy" and i looked him up in my memo notes. shawn achor.  and i reached for the super soul podcast and found a different episode with him.  and it went from there to other people--their stories and their particular brand of positive thinking and inspired ideas.  each conversation gave me new insights and new notes in my memo app, and more things i would like to try and more things i would like to think about more.  time just flew by as my mind soared.  i often found myself thinking "i have to think about that more." but then i was like "when."  and i knew it was true.  i don't give myself much time to think big thoughts anymore.  well i'm trying to now.  and it feels so good.

i finished simon michael's photos.  and i wrote about some of the things i had been listening to in my journal.  i ate tuna and rice and beans with avocado.  low on groceries kind of meal.  later i went to dairy queen without a bra and got a burger and a blizzard.

i spent the evening going through my spring travel photos marking the ones i wanted to work on.  i am finally done everyone else's photos.  well except a few more of even and esther's and soon i'll have kimme's family to do.  but right now i'm a free woman.  feels weiwd.

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Comments

Jeannie said…
That is a great accomplishment to be right on top of all your photography. I am very very impressed. I was thinking about Sheilah's saying on her hairdressing sign. Something like, making the world a more beautiful place one head at a time. I can't quite think of it but I think there is something we could say about your photography and beautiful memories and the great contribution you are making to so many people's lives by your loving service. Maybe you could think of it. Anyways, I think what you are doing is eternally significant. You are immortalizing loving memories. It is hard to capture and express. But you capture it with your camera and with your eye for a beauty and with your love
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Laura said…
thanks mom. i hope what i do is meaningful like you say. it's great to have a believer like you in my corner. love you.
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