a year being lightheaded

 
Today marks the one year anniversary of this photo journal. Which is of no significance whatsoever to anyone other than me. But we do like to take notice of our anniversaries, don’t we? “Look”, we poignantly point out to ourselves and anyone else who will listen, “I’ve done this thing, held this job, been in relationship with this person, lived in this place for “X” amount of years”. The cumulative time logged in must mean *something*, right? Or does it simply mean we’ve stayed put for a period of time and erroneously feel grounded as a result?

I’m including a few images of the same child who accompanied my very first journal entry. She is a year older as well, and when I arrived at her home to photograph her and her sister I saw little change in her physical appearance from the year prior. So it seems with lightheaded……not much has changed. I feel I’ve spent the good part of this past year thinking rather than doing. Standing still when I should have been moving. I see clearly now that I’ve not been brave.

I write today with hope that putting these words out openly into the great expanse of the universe (or just the www as the case may be), might incite me into action. I am ready for radical change in my life, and in my work.

 
~Cynthia