“If
you've gotten so far behind on posting your five-minutes-of-the-day why don't
you just give it up?”
If
Grandpa Snyder had asked me that seven days ago I would've considered giving up
this project of four years. Life was too
hard at that point and the tasks before me overwhelming. It was all I could do to get through each day
as I walked slowly towards the final event in saying goodbye to my beloved
mother.
I
am thrilled to say that today posting five-minutes-of-my-day, a photographic
journey is once again a labor of love and an unexpected path to healing the
emotional wounds grief has left behind.
Since
May 24, 2014 I have been posting a picture a day representing five minutes of
that day and I capture are for the most part images that brought me joy or were
beautiful moments in-and-of themselves.
At
the beginning of 2017 we started to post a daily retrospective - January 1st
over the past four years and so. It has been
interesting to see that over the years I’ve captured similar images, a favorite
flower’s first bloom or spring runoff flooding our local rivers and images of things that bring me joy, ice cream, our grandchildren, drives
through our rural community.
2016
was a difficult year and as the images that were captured remind us it was also
a year of joy and I found joy again as I took the time too catch-up on my posts for
the past two weeks. Through this
exercise I came to the realization that while life at times is very difficult these
difficult events are not the totality of our lives - the things that define our lives. That over the past two weeks I still found
images of joy to capture through the camera lens and as I looked back over the
past four years joy shines brightly in remembered moments.
I
will keep taking one picture a day and posting it on our blog my Photographic
Journal so that I never forget that life is not made up of events big or small
but of moments, moments I choose to captured and remember in images
representing 5-minutes-of-my-day.
Grandma Snyder
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