Lifestyle Photographer - 2010 Reflection

So over the last few days, I've stayed away from the blog because I wanted to do a post on The Decade. And maybe I still will.

But with all this pondering, I realized that I don't need a decade to end to self reflect on what happened to me and to my life and how I have grown and changed. I don't need the turning of the calendar year to determine when I should look within.

I'm reading A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller (great book so far) and something struck me last night...

'...he said, essentially, humans are alive for the purpose of journey, a kind of three-act structure. They are born and spend several years discovering themselves and the world, then plod through a long middle in which they are compelled to search for a mate and reproduce and also create stability out of natural instability, and then they find themselves at an ending that seems to be designed for reflection.'

I don't want to wait until the third stage of my life to reflect. I want to reflect daily! This journey is insane and I'm having a blast, and I want to learn from it all today. I want to think about all I've done right now. I don't want to wait until the end of a decade or the end of my life to think about it and grow from it. I want to do that all the time!

So, with that being said, it should be known, that I'm in heavy self-reflection mode right now. I've completed a decade of living, I've found more wrinkles on my face, I've got an open mind and an open heart, and I'm leaving for the other side of the world in just a few days. I'm READY.

And I'm thankful. I'm so blessed and so rich in so many ways. And most importantly right now, I'm rich with relationships.

My roommate and I hosted a little dinner party last month and had it catered by a private chef (ask me about him, he's amazing!) and themed our night with this thought, 'take time for kindness and fun giving, take time for friends and happy living, don't let time fly by, come spend an evening with friends.' I thought they were good images to go along with this post.

Love you all.






don't let time fly by...







Rick's wife made this amazing lemon cheesecake! mmm!

and the lovely hostess of the evening, taking a load off by the fire at the end of the night...
isn't she beautiful???