My oldest daughter finally bit the bullet and opened her own business this past week. How does one describe the pride one feels when the children you've born reach for their dreams? She's always been a dreamer, a creator, an artist. How I wish I could see in my mind's eye what she sees, but I do have the privilege of viewing them to my heart's content, and I'm still amazed at the beauty in it all. Breathtaking beauty. It amazes me that one can see an object that we've all driven by day after day, and just ignored. She'll look at it, look at how the light hits it, see the angles of it, watch the backdrops of it, and then frame it in her head for the perfect shot. Then with pride, she'll send it to me, and I'll just sit there, mouth agape, in pure awe at the creativity of it all. Something that would take an amateur like me hours to frame, seems to come to her instantaneously, and then it's another capture, for us lucky enough to know her, to admire.
How does one describe the pride? Well, this one just smiles, and she knows.
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Awesome post, Mom, thanks! That's exactly what it feels like. Just going along doing my thing until my eyes perk at a vision and within the blink of an eye I see something I want to capture forever. Almost like a dog who wanders until he smells a certain something and is driven from so deep within to follow it sometimes not even knowing why until he gets there. I love the creative process, it's addicting! Photography just has a better instant gratification rate than painting or drawing, the scene is already or close to being set up all I have to do is click! Yay!
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