last week i wanted to experiment with my camera a bit and not wanting my notebooks and office goodies to be the subject of yet another impromptu photo shoot that i’d later lay on a splattering of blog and social media posts as if they were stock photos, i opted to do the same things with my plants. charity + i went to the DTLA flower market right after this little shoot. afterward, i had bouquets mixed in with these succulents and my little, partially munched on fern that was almost kitty lunch (thankfully not toxic). then came valentine’s day, when kevin stopped by the farmers market and picked out a couple spring bouquets that replaced all my dying market bits. i know having flowers is sometimes silly. if they’re not in the ground they certainly don’t last long, even shorter when i’m tending to them. but they sure do brighten up the place. we’ll call these little ones the survivors. even the fern. i’ve had them all month now (big feat, right?) and they persevere. and even though market flowers don’t stay in my life long, having a brighter, lighter space with them makes all the difference.
i love the brightness of the photos. i love taking the time to do little just-because shoots but they don’t happen as often as i think about them. really, i’ve been doing things like this since i was in middle school, and had little projects that turned into creative outings with friends. anyway, i hadn’t done a journal entry for #yearonpaper for a bit, but after meditation and a really nice park date on friday, i wanted to tackle the (personally) ever-evasive subject.
something i am hoping to be better about, maybe to focus on in the time until my april birthday, is allowing the positivity i feel when i’m doing truly fulfilling things, bleed into the everyday. there will be a time when the everyday is those things, i know it. but for now: fresh air, reading in the park, meditation on friday, sunset chasing, whale watching from the pier, road trips to san francisco, good conversations – all of the simple things – will have to come with me to hot days stuck in the apartment, powering through work assignments, bad mornings and all the adulting i put off last time.
for those who want to think about how positivity works in your day to day, here’s what i’m journaling about today. don’t forget to sign up using the form below if you want a little more backstory on each topic and use #yearonpaper on insta when you’re journaling.
