I've just added a photo to the blog, it's Angela and I on Christmas day at my parents' house. I think it's the best picture we've taken in a while:-) But of course I'm very modest! A note about my photo - it's in black and white and I meant it that way. I love black and white film, I think I'd be happy if that's all I ever used again. I remember back in middle school I went to a fine arts camp at Lake Huron UMC summer camp and got to choose my "specialty". I chose photography and we were given black and white film and we got to develop it. I loved that. But I'm not sure why I never pursued being a photographer. I still remember how to expose the film and develop and all that. And the smell of the chemicals, and being in that tiny dark bathhouse and washing out the pans and just loving it. An odd experience for summer camp, I know. Then years later I got to help a college roommate, Kelly, with her photography projects, and we spent many hours together in the dark room and again, I loved it.
When I showed my grandma these photos the other day, she remarked that my grandpa used to love black and white film. I thought that was pretty cool. She also told me he read Newsweek on a regular basis, and that's what I read. It's so crazy how the past creates the future in a certain way, isn't it?
I've been putzing around this morning, doing laundry, reading (just finished Anne Lamott's Plan B: Some Further Thoughts on Faith, it's genius and why I want to be a writer or even just a cool person like Anne - I highly recommend it or any of her nonfiction and/or fiction work), putting stuff together to take to Arizona. Oh that's right - Arizona! I leave on Thursday morning! I am so excited - more on that later.
Okay, time to pull the capris out of the closet and dust off the sandles. Enjoy your Saturday everyone, and check out Levi Kreis. He's a blues musician that Eric introduced me to last night, and I've already listened to his CD three times this morning. Very emotional and soothing and quiet and loud and just good music. Music to live with.