It’s all in how you see it. What I focus on. What I can’t see.

After I posted yesterday’s entry, I received this email from my good friend Tailwinds. I asked her if I could post her email because reading what she wrote rang true. My perspective is often not the entire truth. Seeing the entire picture, the good and bad, is my goal. Tailwinds helped me bring into focus a more complete picture.

“Hi Linda:

I just read the post you wrote about your conversation with your sister Leila. I am not contradicting her, but offering another point of view:

You are passionate about what you do: hiking, photography, golf etc. When you wrote years ago that you threw yourself fairly single-mindedly into whatever you were doing, I could really relate to that. I am learning balance as I get older, but I still pursue my activities with passion. And if I’m not passionate about it, I don’t waste time on it anymore.

You wring all the good there is to get out of an activity, then you move on. That’s the way I do things too. I’ve said for a long time I don’t have a rear view mirror. Don’t need one.

From my point of view, your life is amazingly full. I think it’s great that you are ‘obsessed’ with photography because you love it, it brings you pleasure, you are keeping your mind sharp and getting out of your comfort zone and you are doing something for YOU. More than anyone I know, your life is dedicated to helping others but it is axiomatic that you have to fill yourself in order to keep giving to others.

I am drawn to you because of the energy and passion that you bring to your pursuits. I don’t have any interest in doing photography myself but I watch your blog every day because I love seeing your art develop. It inspires me and some of your photos take my breath away. I am excited for you as you share your journeys, be it on the trail or in the classroom. To most people a walk is just a walk; to others, it’s an adventure of the spirit.

Just another point of view…

Love and tailwinds”

Today’s photos of the same subject, are all about what I see and focus on, is what I get.

Unintentional misfocus on the front portion of flower.

Center focused.

More of all parts of flower in focus.

I always have the same choices in what I choose to see/focus on in my life as I do when I chose what will be in focus when I shoot a photograph. What I focus on dictates my reality.
I’d like the entire picture of my life in focus and I can’t do this without others.

So thank you Leila and thank you Tailwinds.

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