Sunday, March 19, 2017

Project 12 Topic: Everday (by Stacy Julian)

Definition Everyday:  Of or pertaining to every day, daily; an everday occurrence, as contrasted with special occassions.  -- Ordinary, common, usual, regular, familiar, conventional, run-of-the-mill, standard, stock.

Ah, the monontony of everyday life.  The getting up and going and doing and working, eating, playing, waiting, teaching, helping, sharing and loving.   It is the very essence of what we do and who we are and it should, in my opinion, fill most of the pages of our scrapbook. 

If you are not a daily picture taker, I encourage you to be one.  You can train yourself to  pull out your camera and capture the mondane things of every day life.  The messy imperfection of every day life and the "nothing special here" moments, that you share as you go about your daily life.  These things will be just as fun to look back on as the vacations, hoidays and other milestone events.

As we learn to document and appreciate the very familiar, there grows in the ability to recognize novelty even in the most predictable part of our lives.  Novelty spurs curoisity, which encourages full engagement, which must exist for full creative expression. 

As we scrapbook everyday life, and create a collection of disjointed pages, a pattern will emerge that unify individual pieces .  In and of itself, it might not amount to much, but it becomes significant when part of a common theme, a common purpose, your life.

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