As I lay in bed tonight, listening to the steady comforting drone of his snores, I reflect on words I spoke to him moments before he fell to sleep.

“I love you” he’d said.
And to tease him I added “and food and back scratches and comic books and music and motorcycles and movies.”
He chuckled, “but I love you most of all”

I reflect back on these words because it occurred to me that my husband is a man of many passions. I’ve always known this but do some reason it stuck out clearly to me now.  Once upon a time I, too, had many passions. I loved working out and running. I thoroughly enjoyed to read & spending time outdoors was my greatest joy. I took great pleasure in being creative but also stretching and expanding my intellect. I was a young girl with many interests and passions.

Somewhere along the way I found this thing. Photography. And I fell in love. Not the same way I love my husband of course, but I fell in love with the idea of helping others.

I fell in love with the people I met and the stories they shared with me. I was elated to be able to help young women break out of their shells and see how beautiful they really are. I was humbled to document the love between couples and growing families. And I fell in love with the crazy idea that I might actually be able to do this for a living!

This job. This passion. This labor of absolute love has consumed me for the past (wow!) five years and I could not be happier or more overjoyed to still be documenting my awesome clients’ lives.

But as I laid in bed it occurred to me – photography has crept into my life and slowly overpowered all my other hobbies. It made me think back to when I was in college and my friend Amy was trying to come up with one word to describe me, but she couldn’t. I was “an enigma” to use her word. And yes – I didn’t really know who I was yet but I think it was also because I had so many interests!

I miss that girl! The girl i once was. The one who was puzzling and so all over the place! And I think it would be possible to reach back out and claim some of those interests for myself again. In fact I think it would be good for me! So it’s my new goal to start re-examining what makes me, me and to start embracing the other parts of who I am!

So I hope you will join me on the quest to self discovery and begin to look at who you are and who you hope to be. And then let’s take those steps forward together!

Happy Friday!

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