Movings Words

"Stop comparing where you’re at with where everyone else is. It doesn’t move you farther ahead, improve your situation, or help you find peace. It just feeds your shame, fuels your feelings of inadequacy, and ultimately, it keeps you stuck. The reality is that there is no one correct path in life. Everyone has their own unique journey. A path that’s right for someone else won’t necessarily be a path that’s right for you. And that’s okay. Your journey isn’t right or wrong, or good or bad. It’s just different. Your life isn’t meant to look like anyone else’s because you aren’t like anyone else. You’re a person all your own with a unique set of goals, obstacles, dreams, and needs. So stop comparing, and start living. You may not have ended up where you intended to go. But trust, for once, that you have ended up where you needed to be. Trust that you are in the right place at the right time. Trust that your life is enough. Trust that you are enough."

— Daniell Koepke

This week on instagram

Anniversary gifts and porch times with puppies.

Pho with Drewski, beginnings of our Rose Hill exploration. 

Unloading things in WarTown with Drewski, Rose Hill, and people jumping out of our storm drain. 

Personal Post (Warning Might be discouraging.)

Following your dream is hard and sometimes impossible.

I'm currently stuck in this rut and I'm unable to figure out how to grow evolve and expand. I feel as though I'm backsliding. It's fueled by my constant insecurities of my work and ability. But in all honesty something is actually wrong. I haven't booked anything in 5 months, we're creeping up on half a year, when we hit that mark, I'm going to be terrified.

I love photography, I love connecting with my clients and creating something beautiful and lasting for them to have and hold. But.

But. I don't have clients anymore. Since my last wedding in March I haven't shot anything that involved money, just shoots here and there for free so that I don't get rusty with my camera.

I've been analyzing myself and I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. But along with my day job (starbucks,) and my dwindling photography work, I'm now stressing myself out all the time fretting about this. The past month I haven't been sleeping. I wake with nightmares, and in panic states. I've never had nightmares until this year, 2013, I've also never had migraines till last year, late 2012.

I feel worthless and lost, and I can't figure how to pull myself out of this, and how to get people interested in my work. Obviously I can't fool myself any longer that I know what I'm doing. Because I obviously don't know anymore. I thought I did, but now it's shown that this may all be impossible.

Some of you may think I shouldn't post any of this, but it's my PERSONAL blog, a lifestyle blog full of art and truths.

Music Monday

Music Monday

Cocoon - Oh My God

Need some Art in my Life

Our walls are pretty bare and I've really been wanting to add some colour and character to it. I've always felt that art helps make a home. It's an expression of yourself and your home. If you have any prints/originals that you're crazy over, please feel free to share them. 

lisacongdon's Iceberg

poppyandpinecone's Whiskey is a Food.

jonathanday's The Stream At the Edge of the Field.

lisacongdon's Folk Forest

Arcadiagraphic's Hipster Sloth Quote Poster Print: Welcome home, darling

Tattoo Inspiration (Birds)

Love birds, love tattoos, love bird tattoos. Especially little plump sparrows. Fat birds are the happiest looking creatures on the planet. 

source: amina charai

source: mariah anzil

source: David Hale