Each Spring awakens me from a winter hibernation spent away from my pet camera and replenishes my creative well with vigor & gaga. Trees birthing their resplendent greenness, raindrops making blossoms shine, you all see it. Perhaps I view it with such wide eyed wonder because the period between snow & spring is so brown and gray and depressingly ugly... Last spring I began a list of 1000 things I love. It turns out that most of those things are not bought with money, or part of well laid plans or "big" things. Most of them have to do with the 2 glorious creatures pictured above. (#379: I love that 98% of the times Aria picks up a marker or crayon, she draws a heart.)
(#353: I love how perfectly Lucia's head fits in the crook of my neck & I melt as she nestles there.)
A lot of them are beautiful details & moments we tend to overlook in our hurriedness.
(#17: I love moonlight on water)
(#263: I love live music outdoors in the grass with children dancing all around.)
I can't say this list is making me a "better" person, that will take a lifetime, maybe more. It is making me a more grateful & appreciative person, one moment at a time.
