Mmm!

Ever just cozy up to your blazing fireplace in your favorite recliner wrapped in a velvety, throw and hum, “Mmm?” Just me? I’ll see myself out. Lol Seriously, I truly am appreciative of the little things I think people take for granted like the solace these quiet moments can bring us. A moment for reflection, contemplation and overall gratitude. From someone who used to be plagued with the many thoughts warring for dominance in my head, I am afforded a peace I cannot quite describe.

Autumn is upon us!

Deep down, I always knew I’d return to myself one day where I would carry an armful of canvases during a travel to a local destination so I could set up my easel and illustrate what I saw. Capture every image and video of some marvel that leaves me breathless. Annoy everyone around me for doing so with the camera in my phone, but not care because having missed out on most experiences for over half of my life, I wanted the memory for forever.

I write, I snap, I record all in an effort to remember.

Some argue a person should be present in a moment, and stats have shown how people aren’t when they are busy documenting simultaneously. But, I disagree. The more I travel, the more the experiences tend to blur into one another. Or maybe, it is just me as I get older. However, I can still remember walking on a Bahamian beach 22 years ago and becoming nostalgic to have revisited the place that first showed me an aquamarine sea as a teenager. That memory even further embedded in my hippocampus.

For me, I have mastered being present whilst documenting. That way, when I gaze upon a vision frozen in my phone or on one of my social media pages, the experience floods my senses in vivid pixelated reds, yellows and blues. I am shot the dopamine we all chase. Interestingly, the younger generations are not so camera-happy, and I fear they will miss not taking advantage of opportunities to memorialize their lives in this way later on.

Agree to disagree?