“Some days, we just need to turn the quiet up.”

I’m finding that I really need my days off.  I need them so I can take a deep breath and I need them for the silence - an escape from the endless small talk all day long.  I take most of the pictures I post here on my days off and taking pictures has become very therapeutic.  They aren’t always good but I have fun doing it and that isn’t that what anyone wants?  To have fun, to let your stress go for a little bit?

I used to be good at keeping a journal but haven’t written one for the last several years.  I consider this blog my journal, albiet an impersonal one, as a way to keep track of what I do all year.  I like it but it’s not quite the same as writing my personal feelings on paper.  I started this one line a day journal and so far I’ve remembered to write about 85% of the time.  It’s a lot less exhausting to think about writing a sentence or two instead of a page.  Josh and I did manage to keep a journal when we went to Europe.  We typed up what we did everyday on my iphone and then for Christmas, I made it into a hand-written journal, with receipts, tickets stubs etc about our travels.  I’m happy with how it turned out.