Happy Pauses || May

As you may have read in my last Garden post, the month of May was easily one of my worst. For more reasons than one. But let’s not make space for the negative. A while back a quote stuck out to me. And while I don’t have it at my finger tips right now the gist was how we have to start romanticizing our lives. every . single . day . “Happy Pauses.” was an idea I stole from a friend that has been life giving to me. Moments in a day I want to pause. The happy little things.

Phase three of healing included mostly removing myself from social media and really my phone in general. While I deactivated my Facebook I did still often log on to Insta to watch stories. However, there is a large black hole in my own timelines and stories. During that time I of course couldn’t stop myself from creating in some way. And truly, creating is one of the most healing things for my own soul. An old friend once taught me that. In the months of May, June and most of July I remained quiet. Behind that quiet phone + computer I focused on the smallest of mundane things that made me happy. While focusing on happy I realized how many things in my day to day life I would love to just hit pause on. Pretty things, tasty things, happy feeling things and might we not forget the good smelling and sounding things. All the things connected to all our senses. Things that I just desperately wanted to pause and hold on to. Photography has always come from so deep within me because I’ve always had this God given drive to document. Document all the happy pauses in my clients, friends + families lives. The part of that I lost was how much I equally not only wanted but needed to do that in my own life as well. It’s what sets my soul on fire. And then I did just that.

Here is the first of that; the happy pauses healing project. No words, no explanations, no context - just overly romanticized daily life that deserved a hold one weekly chunk at a time.