“In art the hand can never execute anything higher than
the heart can inspire.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.” -Confucius
“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart” -Kahlil Gibran
Theme song #1: Fly to Your Heart by Selena Gomez
Theme song #2: Little Wonders by Rob Thomas
Theme song #3: Don’t Go Breakin’ My Heart by Kiki Dee
(because this song just makes me smile!)
Yesterday I had to finish a personal questionnaire for a photography workshop I will be attending in T-minus 14 days!!!
Wo-MAN alive I am beyond excited!!!
But don’t be fooled, my friend. This is not yo’ mama’s ordinary photog workshop… oh, no.
This is the Heart Shop baby!!!
“A memory is a photograph taken by the heart to make a moment last forever.”
An ooey-gooey freaking Heart Shop with Becky Earl and Diana Palmer and an amazing and talented group of ladies that have already been pulling at my heartstrings as we get to know each other online pre shop.
Remember when I talked about 2010 being the year for change here and a little here (and my very first post ever about timing)… to get uncomfortable, go for it, and just D.O. it? Well, I am happy to say that I feel the time is right and this workshop was meant to be as part of my journey. Could I have picked a class that focuses just on technical stuff? Yah. But would that have served my purpose? Nah.
I have already been stretched and hurt my already migrainefested head to think more about who I am and where I am going as a person and as a photographer more than I have let myself in years. Because I’m going there… all the way. They promise to help me “discover what makes my heart beat fast, my goose bumps rise, and my passion ignite”.
This is what I need and I’m grabbing my Heart by the horns… by the strings.
It’s on.
So, there was a question asking what inspires me.
A WHOLE LOT inspires me!
It can go a little something like this…
Today is the last day of school. This morning it was solidified for me, that it is all the little moments, that may not look like much to others, that inspire my heart the most. I watched my girls hand a simple gift and homemade card to the crossing guard lady they have waved to every single morning, and every single afternoon for the entire school year, from the car, rain or shine. They have smiled, they have yelled lots of “have a happy, happy day”s, they have connected heart to heart without even knowing her name.
Her name is Miss Debbie. She hugged my girls and sincerely thanked them. Tears filled her eyes as she told them how much their daily smiles and waves have meant to her and that she would surely miss them over the summer. Her heart was touched… and so were ours. (Now if only I had taken a picture-duh!)
“What the heart gives away is never gone…It is kept in the hearts of others” -Robin St. John
Hearts and little moments.
Inspiring.
by admin