I have looked into your eyes with my eyes.
I have put my heart near your heart.
Pope John XXIII
I close my eyes so my soul can see
it’s truth;
a lightness
a flow
a warmth
a depth
a love
and a completeness
that defies the senses.
There are days when I wish
I could package up this knowing
and deliver it by UPS
to your door.
If it arrived
would you sign for it?
Kate Iredale
Blessings to each of you and thanks for visiting ! I'm so glad you stop by.
The theme for week 02 at lens-us-together is abandoned and was suggested by Beth at Be Yourself, Everyone Else is Taken. I love Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s beautiful little book Gift From the Sea and it’s theme of ebb and flow…of life’s changes and fluctuations…which she herself came to terms with while spending a week on her own by the ocean, away from her husband and five children.
The sea abandons the shore every day and then returns. When we understand the natural rhythms of nature it's somehow easier to come to terms with loss, change and even abandonment in our own lives.
afternoon sunlight at the sea’s edge
"For relationships, too, must be like islands. One must accept them for what they are here and now,
within their limits - islands surrounded and interrupted by the sea,
continuously visited and abandoned by the tides.
One must accept the serenity of the winged life,
of ebb and flow, of intermittency.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh"
Gifts From the Sea
I received my first Blurb produced book last week. It contains all the post and photographs from my blog in 2006...my first year of blogging.
I was very pleasantly surprised at the quality. I had been a little nervous about the colour quality but amazingly, it was very true to the colours on my own monitor (which has never been calibrated)
It was A LOT of work to prepare the copy. The photo's were all originally JPEG's uploaded to TypePad and Blurb requires a much higher resolution so every photograph had to be upgraded.
Making it all fit into Blurb's templates was restrictive too. I think I may create some of my own templates for the next one...oh, yes, I'm hooked, there will definitely be a "next one"'
I've been working away on this project for over a year and was beginning to think it was going to end up in the "unfinished project " category. Determined to finish it and with my studio in the process of disappearing into boxes a few months ago, I finally did. I can't begin to tell you the immense satisfaction of opening a book from a publisher, that you yourself have created. I was beyond ecstatic!
I love the journal aspect of this book...looking back at myself three years ago and seeing who I was then. I will most likely tire of blogging someday (not yet!) and this record of me, my family, my art and my thoughts will be lost. I also appreciate the format of it all being on paper and easily accessible to flip through.
If you like the idea of having your blog printed out in journal form...I can only encourage you to go for it!
You'll be very happy that you did.
(now I just have four books left to finish up...two more years of blog posts, my SoBoFoMo book and one other photographic book of last year's December Views.)
...and I'm almost finished SoBoFoMo!
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