I'm trying! It just doesn't seem like the Christmas season yet ... so when I had an extra 15 minutes after errands while Miss M was at dance class, I went to Rhema to see the lights. Thankfully, my camera was in the trunk, so I played for a while. I even tried to create a makeshift bokeh frame out of my drink cover. Have you ever tried to purposely rip a heart shape into plastic? Not easy! I'll have to go back with a better creation.
In the meantime, I have been thinking about symbolic things ... anything to give a frame to my thoughts or feelings or place in life. Tonight it's the unfocused but "new focused" interest that can be found by looking beyond the space between me and my environment.
There's more to a scene than what I can see in front of me.
There's more to my environment than what I can focus on.
There's more to my life than what I can carve out of my own efforts.
Somehow ... I want to get my focus off of me, off of the things around me, and set it so far past it all that a new picture appears ...
Something new, different, patterned with possibility, intersecting with inspiration, hinting toward a horizon ripe for discovery.
Maybe this will be my bokeh holiday ... looking past, focusing beyond myself, and finding new beauty.
