Joy Dare {gifts 70-93}

Thinking about this Joy Dare, taking down and photographing these 1,000 things I'm thankful for, I think it's the time I take to stop and look back at my gifts that make me happy. These little things I've collected in photographs from my week make me smile and give thanks again.   A gift turned, a gift folded, a gift hung 70. [...]

A Day At the Beach With a Ballerina

  If I had a ship, I'd sail my ship, I'd sail my ship Through Eastern seas; Down to a beach where the slow waves thunder - The green curls over and the white falls under -   (From The Island by A.A. Milne)   She sings her own songs and dances away. Six is quite wonderful. A.A. Milne must have known and my little girl knows too. We read poems together from [...]

Continuing To Count 1000 Gifts

February 26) 3 gifts seen as reflections 10. Palms in the blue water 11. Myself - I don't always like looking in the mirror and I'd much rather be photographing others 12. Coffee together on a Monday. He's working and I'm reading, but we're together 27) 3 Ugly Beautiful Gifts 13. My Brother David - He was hit by a car when he was almost nine. [...]