Lilly Sway

Today I spent most of the day cleaning and dusting and I have quite a large collection of photos on display and it makes for a busy cleaning day, but I am not complaining. I am one of those people who frame’s most all of the pictures I take. .I try to put them all out at one time or another, it is my intention to live a happy a life as I possibly can, and one of the reasons I make the time to continue this hobby is to help realize that statement. I have photos in boxes but for the most part I feel one should have their memories out, to cherish the years right in front of them each and every day. I find that time goes by quickly and if I store everything in a box could I ever get the chance to take a moment and remember a great day or reflect on why something has changed. I have purposely surrounded my self for the most part with my life right before my eyes, my husband started the collection of framing a special photo on the wall here and there you know dad stuff and after a while he got bored, but I have grown to enjoy most everything about putting the photos on our shelves or the wall for display I can go down the hallway and find myself smiling at a funny costume my 18 year old wore when he was 3 and I can appreciate the heart ache my husband feels when he looks at a picture of our daughter when she was 5 and the reality that hits him to just look across the hall and see that she is now a beautiful thirteen year old on the way towards becoming a woman, I can see my best friends in their happiest of times, or I can feel my heart warm with love when I look at my most memorable times, like when my children were born (and how good I looked then). I had the opportunity to talk to a friend the other day, it had been a long while since we had time in our busy lives to spend catching up, but as I hung up I saw her picture up on my shelf and it was as if we had just seen each other, so her being in another part of our state and not where we could have a lunch date or see one another didn’t seem to matter as much just the visual connection was enough, the best part of having my memories surround me is that sometimes the visual is all I have left of a particular friend or family member that has passed away, because we will always have that instant, that perfect day, that special moment frozen in time, that special picture, you know the one you don’t really mind dusting at all.

Food for the Mind

Lilly’s Way

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