Saturday, December 13, 2014

Pushing me harder through the darkness to find the light

At what point in our history did perfection become more important than honesty? Joy@wildflowersphotos.com believes it may have been when Kodak released it's first consumer-friendly camera. She writes:
Kodak advertisements featured celebrations and joyful events. Their slogans were all an effort to sell photography with happiness; “Kodak knows no dark days”, “Save your happy moments with a Kodak.” In time, these “Kodak moments” became the new American standard for how a pleasing, “happy” photo should look.

Joy has
been given this gift of wanting to look a little longer for traces of gratitude in everyday life.

She urges us to
Notice when life is passing you by and fight to stay present. Fight against fear when it tells you that there isn’t anything worth remembering. Because those days become years; and, before you know it, you’ve missed it. Don’t miss it. Start documenting life in your own home.

She ends with this quote from Margery Williams in The Velveteen Rabbit:
“You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”
Read more of Harvesting Hope: A life worth rememberinghere.

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