Day: November 19, 2012

A Sort of Kind of Deja Vu

I don’t believe in deja vus, really, and I doubt their overall usefulness, but let me tell you what happened to date … exactly a year ago: I had arranged to go out on an autumn photo shoot with my friends. I’d prepared my camera, recharged my batteries, and done everything necessary to be ready for an afternoon with my friends and my camera. But, lo, as soon as we wanted to start to shoot, my camera’s batteries quit their job, never to work again. And so, I ended up being a by-stander in our so well planned-out autumn photo shoot. Now, listen to this: Exactly one year later, namely today (though I only realized afterward), I’d arranged with one my friends to go on another autumn photo tour. But guess what happened, as soon as I got out my camera to start snapping away? You’re right! Something happened that seemed quite familiar to me – like a bad kind of deja vu! The batteries refused to work yet again, and all I got was …

Journaling Café: Season of Thanks

Though I didn’t grow up celebrating Thanksgiving the way any Americans would do, Thanksgiving has become a more important holiday to me over the last couple of years. And anyways, I think we can always work at becoming more thankful, so today’s journaling prompts are naturally all about the upcoming holiday, and the things we can be thankful for in our lives … And here’s my take on one of these prompts: