I just wanted to make a little note to myself about this, because I’m no good at focusing on the positives in my life and I want to be better at that.
So: I’ve been doing an online digital photography course for a couple of months now and today I experimented with the manual settings on my camera for the first time, adjusting the shutter speed and aperture etc. It went really well! I took a load of shots of my dog while she was sleeping on the sofa and, yeah, some came out a bit dark or overexposed but there are a lot I really like too. Which is kind of a big deal for me! I very rarely feel proud of the stuff I create and it’s been a while since I’ve felt any sense of progress/achievement with anything. Maybe I’ll get some photos printed to celebrate!
“As this world becomes increasingly ugly, callous and materialistic, it needs to be reminded that the old fairy stories are rooted in truth, that imagination is of value, that happy endings do, in fact, occur, and that the blue spring mist that makes an ugly street look beautiful is just as real a thing as the street itself.”
Something i’ve really been thinking about lately: i’m genuinely so grateful for books. For stories and writers and their wild imagination. This year has been incredibly hard, no one needs a reminder of that, and being able to escape somewhere else is beyond comforting. Sure, there are days when I’m unable to read at all, because life gets in the way, or the weight of everything that’s going on feels like too much to even be able to read one word. But there are days when I devour page after page and those are the days when I think…when I know that books have saved me.
