It’s Not a Dream Anymore, it’s Worth Fighting For…

Sooner or later something goes amiss;
The singing birds pack up and fly away;
So never try to trick me with a kiss:
The dying man will scoff and scorn at this.
-Sylvia Plath

What a melodramatic way to start a blog post. I know. But  I love poetry. I especially love little snippets of poetry, kind of like phrases from a favorite song. In fact, if you look at my most played music you’ll see a common thread: great lyrics. I adore when people can paint pictures with their words and give them rhythm and movement and symmetry. This poem especially keeps playing in my mind because Nate and I have been talking a lot about this topic. A feeling of impending doom. A feeling that everything is just going too well and that something bad has to be just around the corner. Each day it seems we keep getting better and better news. I was joking with Nate that we need to start picking bigger dreams because a bunch of our dreams for 2010 are already in the process of coming true and it’s not even the end of January. Next year, I’m dreaming for a Ferrari! (Just kidding, I’ll totally pick world peace.) We’re keeping our fingers crossed that the singing birds don’t fly away just yet.

I don’t really want to go into all of it, because I feel like it might come off as a brag fest (even though my intention is more of an excited “gushing” but we all know how the interwebs can be) but this week was filled with exciting emails and big dreams being realized. Even in our personal and family lives things have just been wonderful. Nate keeps worrying that any moment now we’re going to get bad news, just because it seems like the good news can only keep coming for so long. The other day we were dancing in the office (What? That’s totally normal. Stop looking at us like that.) to one of “our songs”. It’s lyrics are made of a string of “wishes” and after it ended I looked up at him in astonishment and said “All those wishes came true.” (Are you nauseated yet? No? Okay… I’ll continue.)

While we understand that our art is our business and our business is our art, I’ve been telling Nate recently how excited I am for the day that I am at a place in my career and industry to be able to encourage other people in their dreams. And this week has done nothing but support that dream of mine and show me that it is within reach. I am so excited for what this year has in store for us, our clients, and also our relationships with other photographers and creatives. Today I worked up the courage to email some of the wedding industry’s most talented photographers (What?! I know, right.) for an idea I have been wrestling with for about a year now. And within just a few hours I had received excited and supportive emails from a bunch of them. It affirmed my vision and got me so excited to make that vision into a reality. More on that tomorrow…

I guess this post is more of a mental detox than anything else. I don’t really have a moral to my story. So I’ll conclude with another prose that I love and some pretty pictures…

Honestly can you believe we cross the world while it’s asleep?
I’d never trade it in because I’ve always wanted this.
And it’s not a dream anymore, no.
It’s not a dream anymore, it’s worth fighting for.
-Paramore

How adorable is she with that hat and those glasses!

We shot their session at the Port Orleans Resort in Disney.

I think this one is my favorite. I don’t know why, but I adore it.

In true French quarter fashion, they suggested Beignets

Ok, I lied. This may be my favorite. Check out that sugar dust mid air!

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