Happy Heavenly Birthday and New Inspiration
Two blogettes for the New Year seems to be in order.
I have been spending lots of time thinking about my Mother. She would have been 95 last Monday, January 15th. I love to think of her with her full memory back intact and able body back in play. I’m betting that she has found a typewriter or the latest heavenly computer and she is helping organize all of the heavenly realm with memos and typed sermons. Happy Heavenly Birthday, Mother! You still influence me on a daily basis. Here are just a few of the things that I tap into daily, some rather profound and some more mundane:
1. People are more important than things. You even let me play with your china and crystal. Wow!
2. If someone asks what you don’t like about someone, use the sentence, “Oh, I don’t remember not liking something about them.” You were a master of finding and remembering the good in people.
3. Use the words, “Well, now you know.” when someone makes a mistake.
4. Wipe out and around the sink after you wash your hands. Don’t leave all those water spots and a dirty sink for the next person.
5. Put your clothes back in your suitcase when you are visiting in someone else’s home. Don’t leave your things spread out all over their house. I am not so good at an organized suitcase. Your son in law is great at it. I think I just pack way too many things. My theory is that you never know when there is going to be a party and you will want to have the right thing to wear.
I find myself using the words “little scamp” a whole lot with my sweet grandchildren. I think of you each time I call them that.
Blogette Two:
I attended the PPA (Professional Photographer’s of America) Convention in New Orleans starting last Saturday. I always look forward to being inspired by the speakers and tempted by all the delightful new offerings at the trade show. Photographers are a friendly bunch and it feels like a family reunion seeing all the people that I have come up with through the ranks. The speakers are among the best in the nation and are willing to share. All photographers have a genuine love of people, family and memories. The time gets away, children grow older, leave home and have children of their own. More than ever, I am committed to stopping time. It is just so much fun to remember and wonderful to celebrate family. With all the tools in Photoshop and terrific posing, it is just more important to “get it done” than to loose the proverbial ten pounds.
I had the delightful opportunity to hear Joyce Tennyson speak. She received the PPA Lifetime Achievement Award and was named one of the ten most influential women in photography. She was inspiring and talked about photographing from your subconscious. I think I do that. I liked that validation from a master. She has a beautiful image of herself with her young son at about seven years of age. The next image was of her with the same grown son. He is such a handsome young man and she is still beautiful. Her face was older and more wrinkled but it was a powerful image. I would love to have that of my son and myself. It was simple and beautiful.
I am thinking that all you young mommies need to grab your son (or daughter) and create a powerful image for your photographic collection. As much as I love photographing and as long as I plan to photograph, I’ll capture the Mother and grown up son or daughter image, as well.
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