I don’t believe I took enough photographs this year, particularly this summer. 

I was just too busy. Making images requires a certain cool remove, a distance for looking that I did not have much room for this year. I don’t think I’ll have much room for it over the next 12 months, either. 

I plan on taking a picture or two during the birth, and not a whole lot more. I feel that I’ve been pretty present this year, and I’d like to continue that trend on through one of the more meaningful moments of my life. 

Has that presene of mind been helped or hindered by the cultivation of this blog I wonder. It’s not the same as making photographs, but it is a sort of rumination, which is perhaps the opposite of mindfulness. 

Initially this blog revolved around the photographs I took, but as I’ve taken fewer and fewer it’s become more about a pre-bed rumination. I’ve considered writing in the mornings, I think that might make it more about ideas and less about what happened during the day. Maybe I’ll do that tomorrow, after apple picking. I’ll have a few images from that.