Love through pictures

Most people on Facebook follow at least one photographers page. And more than likely that photographer has shot a certain person or family multiple times. You grow close in your own Facebook stalker way to these people. You celebrated the engagement, drooled over their wedding, marveled t the cutest baby bump you have ever seen and cried at the birth of their child. You see these people at their best and are more than happy to see them that way. You feel like you know them, you feel like they are family. But when something happens to the family, your heart aches, you cry because they are in pain. This is something I have recently found out that has happened to me. I watched this family grow through pictures on a photographers Facebook. A family I didn't really even know and only talked to once through email. This family suffered a hard loss today and when I found out I could do nothing but cry. Given I have a sensitivity to this type of loss, I didn't expect it to effect me this hard. I guess in a way it's a good thing. It brings people closer together. A more tight knit family. The point in trying to make with this, if there is really is a point is that photographer pages have opened us up to feel kinder for people and that makes me happy. Happy for this family that got this immense outpouring of love, prayers and thoughts. I am one that will continue to watch you through pictures knowing you will get through this and I can't wait to see your smiling face in new pictures. Until then I am going to keep this girl a little closer to my heart so she knows I love her more than anything.

Moving On

I have started to realize how fragile friendships can be. One minute you are inseparable the next you can't remember the last time you even saw the person. Sometimes this creates heartache. Other times it's like the person was never really there in the first place. How is that in our lives something so significant can become so obsolete? Here's my advice. The ones that still count you as close even though you might not talk to them everyday, keep them. The ones that put you through the pain of losing them, move on. Life shouldn't be about wondering if you had done the right thing by people knowing you have. Cherish the ones who cherish you.

Welcome Back

I am slowly going to start getting back into blogging. I used to do it all the time then fell out of it. Hopefully this will be a therapeutic experience. If not you'll just see random pictures I have taken or awesome crafts I have sucked the man into letting me do. I am going to save the intro for another day or perhaps never. I don't know depends on if anyone other than the people who know me ever start reading this. Not that I expect anyone ever to. I have a dream that some day, something I do up here will get pinned. HA. Now. Sleep must happen. Have a boring week to get through until our Spring Break vacation in Gordonsville and then our big move.

xo,
Julies