#3

This is Minxie.  Minxie loves to sit on my lap or chest (as she's doing here - I had to hold the camera over my head to take this shot) and purr to her heart's content.  It feels good when she does that.  My best friend calls it Purr Therapy, and I can't agree with her more.  This picture is me receiving Purr Therapy.  Purr Therapy is a beautiful thing.

#2

I was drinking my morning tea today (coffee didn't sound good on this particular day) and I noticed the rim of the cup said "Give Me Strength" and I felt it was appropriate.  So I set it on my laptop next to my favorite sticker that my friend Michelle gave me. It says "Whatever you think you are, you are more than that."  Sometimes beauty is a thought and a feeling of well-being, knowing that I'm going to be okay, however brief that moment may be.

#1

"True friends are not the ones who are there when it's convenient. True friends are there when it's not"

 Thank you to my friend Samii for posting this.  It came at exactly the right time.

And so it begins

I am beginning this project as a form of catharsis.  I want to get that out there right now.  If any of you know me personally, you know I suffer certain abnormalities that affect my overall health.  Today, I have decided to do something about it.  My project for 2012 is to find beauty in every day.  I am a musician.  I am a writer.  I am a photographer.  I am a poet.  I am a comedian.  I can do this.

This forces me to look for beauty around me.  It's there.  I know it is.  My problem is I have trouble finding it.  I'm not sure where this project will take me.  My goal is to come up with 366 pieces this year - one for every day.  If someone else created it or I create it myself, it doesn't matter.  If I go a week without finding anything beautiful, but on Sunday find seven beautiful things, it doesn't matter.  By the end of this year, I want to look back and see one good thing for every day I survived.  This may fall flat on its face.  This may change my life.  I have no idea how this will come out.

But one thing I do know - it begins today.


1/3/2012