Do not try and tell me what my child will be, how long he will be with us. Do not tell me how I should feel or pretend you know more than I do about his struggles. Do not downplay his condition or ignore his amazing strength to overcome. Do not treat my child with less respect or kindness than he deserves. Do not judge him for his imperfection. Do not cause my child unhappiness in order to put yourself forward in this world. Do not mess with this Mama Bear, I have claws and gnashing teeth and most importantly I have a love you will never understand. Do not underestimate him, or me. Live your life full of love and compassion. Live a life of doing rather than do not. Live your life like my child and you will be happier. Do not let your life pass you by without appreciating beautiful imperfection.
A click a day. That’s it. On my iPhone or fancy camera I just need to click the button once a day. I’m not perfect… I may fudge the dates a little (back-off – Patriots game yesterday took precedence). I already realize I need to take more photos of my darling daughter. She is camera shy and a hormonal tween, which is a bad combination when trying to find someone to photograph. The boys and the dog? They will pose, hard, all day long. So this week my focus will be on the girl. I will capture her in her natural habitat. Wish me luck.
Patti and I would love you to join us so please come over to The 366 Project Flickr page and share your photos with us. Happy Clicking!
I decided to do a “photo a day” and start this 366 Project for many reasons. My first reason? I needed something to re-engage me with my blog. Last year was very stressful and unfortunately when I am stressed I get writers block. Actually it’s more like “I can’t open the floodgates” block. I prefer humor to depressing, I mean honestly don’t we all? I am known for my ability to find the funny at the most stressful of times. I believe my old therapist called it an avoidance technique. Whatever. Sadly even I couldn’t throw out a good boob joke or inappropriate geriatric schtick over the past few months. My brain was full of all this annoying grown-up stuff and my funny dried up. So I decided posting a picture a day on Flickr and then here weekly was a nice way to get back into the pool. Photos are safe, it was the perfect project for me.
My second reason, which has been a very nice side effect of this project, is the photo scrapbook I a creating for myself and my family. 366 days of whatever is happening. No rules (I couldn’t deal with the pressure) No Themes (unless maybe the theme is living a life) Just a picture a day. It seems like a lot of work, but at the end I will have an amazing story.
We are 16 days into this project. It’s easy. I have an iPhone, three kids and a life of zero down time. My life is full of photo opportunities. It doesn’t have to be perfect or even interesting to any of you, but to me it’s part of the story. Hopefully someday soon there will be words to go with these pictures, but for now I am happy sharing my life once click at a time.
Miss Patti and I have made it through the first nine days of The 366 Project. We even have a few friends joining us in this fun project. We would love for all of you to join us too. It’s a simple, and actually very fun, way to document the year. Take a look at my pictures so far. Come join our Flickr Group. This is a FUN project. You can join anytime and post any picture you would like. Our goal is to get used to taking a picture every day and documenting 2012. We have some amazing photos, so please go take a look. Happy Snapping!
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