I’m travelling around lately for work; last week spending time in the city and then flying and driving to the country and there will be more of that. It’s busy but with the lens of ‘The August Break‘, it’s good to be stopping to see as I travel and to be enjoying the visual contrasts that such a week brings.
What contrasts are you enjoying now?
I drive through national park for twenty minutes each morning on the way to work. There are gorgeous trees, now starting to shift into spring mode here, water, birds, rocks, beaches, rivers. I am always focused on getting to work and while I notice what I am driving through, I don’t stop. Yesterday as part of ‘The August Break‘, for the first time on this drive, I stopped to see and took some early morning shots by the water’s edge. I will be stopping to see more on the way to work and elsewhere.
Further to the post of May 19 on my ‘seven stars’ – the blogging writers who have inspired me – I want to celebrate these stars further as I move forward. I acknowledged and celebrated them in that summary post but each deserves a bright and sparkling place of their own here in between other musings and jottings. I wish to acknowledge what they have given me, the windows they open, what is inspiring and what they offer to others. I am already sprinkling this through my posts in various ways, but they deserve more considering what they have given me.
To celebrate beauty, healing and creativity, I encourage you to visit Susannah Conway’s sites:
http://www.susannahconway.com/ In her own words: ‘This is the online home of Susannah Conway, a photographer, writer and creator of the Unravelling e-courses. A self-confessed Polaroid fanatic, she shares insights on her blog while exploring the world through her camera lens.’
http://www.flickr.com/photos/inkonmyfingers/sets/ Susannah’s photographs on flickr
You can also see Susannah talking about her creativity in a video interview, ‘Burning questions with Susannah Conway: beauty that heals’ at Danielle LaPorte’s White Hot Truth.
What Susannah gives me:
Clear open heart, beauty, creativity, something special to take away every time I read and visit, vulnerability, courage, a model for being open and creative and what that can do for other people, someone else talking like I feel about moving through grief, pain and healing, how that happens, what it feels like, creative ways to do this, reflections on light and shadow.
And anyone who takes the most beautiful photographs of her piles of moleskine journals, a box full of old penguin paperbacks she has just found at a garage sale, all the gorgeously titled books in her library sorted by colour and her poloraid camera collection is so very cool in my books and I just swoon with pleasure at the sights.
One of my most treasured posts is ‘Five years’ , a reflection on grief that has travelled now through five years. I connect through music with those I have loved and lost, and this post ends with an invitation to play a Kings of Leon song for Susannah’s partner whom she loved and lost. The song ends up being played loud all around the world by readers, including by me here in Sydney, with many tears shed all over in layers of connection.
Visit and be sometimes delighted, sometimes saddened, always touched in some special way and always inspired.
Moleskine and penguin pics by Susannah Conway and used with her kind permission.
