This is a catch-all post for three different fun projects: the Photo-Heart Connection, some journal photos that a group of friends and I are all posting and sharing, and the WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge. I hope it doesn’t get too long!
My choice for the Photo-Heart Connection for July was tough… on the return flight home from Chicago last week, I took many photos of clouds from my little window seat. There were so many different types and colors all layered together and I thought it looked magical. The one below looked sort of like a little tunnel from a stormy situation into brightness. Then I got to my car and was exiting the parking lot and saw the one immediately below, with a lovely rim light giving special contrast to the separation of the grey clouds and the bright blue sky. And I drove through those storm clouds and rain toward sunshine where I got to reunite with my sweet girl.
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“Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.” ~ Christina Baldwin
Some friends are doing a party this week of pictures of our journals… we were chatting in our Facebook group about being obsessed with them. I learned I’m not alone in admiring them, buying them, and then not wanting to sully them with my scribblings. This could probably be a post in and of itself, but I already have next week’s posts scheduled so we’ll just include it here.
There’s just a sense of promise, of beginning, of possibility with a brand new and beautifully covered book, don’t you think?
All these pretty covers and yet I began by using boring spiral notebooks…
I have several travel journals where I pasted ticket stubs, brochures, cards, etc. and wrote about all the inspiration I was seeing around me. I even found an old Lira note.
I’m sure you all have a journal or two, right? If you like, share how you use them (or not) and what they mean to you.
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The WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge is PURPLE. Well, by the time you read this, I’ll probably be behind again, but here ya go…
My favorite color!
Whew! Have a lovely weekend, friends. Come back on Monday for a post I’m excited to share with you about how a tiny shift in persecutive can change absolutely everything!
by Eloisa James is a lighthearted memoir about her year-long sabbatical in Paris with her family. She was free to do whatever she liked and I enjoyed hearing about it all: her children’s experiences in school, her culinary adventures, her fashion observations. It’s a quick read and quite touching at times. I could definitely see some of her short observations being entertaining Facebook status updates. I must say, I love reading travel narratives and this one does not disappoint. It’s an excellent depiction of an American’s daily life in Paris, with lots of laugh-out-loud passages.
by Alice Kaplan tells the stories of three American women who spent a year studying abroad in Paris. I am amazed at how transformative their Paris year(s) were for these women and how different their experiences were. Three different generations… a debutante, an intellectual and a political activist. What strikes me is that for each of them, it was leaving home and experiencing a foreign city that helped mold them into the famous individuals they each became.
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Poetic Aperture 