7*365 {Outside the Box}

“Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.” ~ Theodore N. Vail
I find it fascinating and sad funny how we sometimes can box ourselves in...

6*365 {Nobody but Myself}

All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with:  that I am nobody but myself.  ~Ralph Ellison, "Battle Royal"

5*365 {In the light}

"...Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." ~Marianne Williamson

A wet and dreary evening. The sun still shone for a few minutes, in the overcast sky, through rain drops and lonely, limp snowflakes.

 

4*365 {Immensity}

Excuse me while I kiss the sky. ~Jimi Hendrix

3*365 {Grace}

I am very grateful to God everyday that my eyes flutter open and I can jump out of that bed!
~Jerry Reed 

While at the ZOO today, I was talking to Paul about this 365 challenge (one picture a day for the next year) I took on. One of his comments was that even though I like all the things that I work on (design related projects), I come alive when I take the camera in my hands. It does feel that way.