10nineteen

I recently read the book “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life” by Donald Miller and one thing that stuck with me was the thought that life is a story, and we should try to write a good story by living meaningful lives. Not only for ourselves, but involving the people around us.

When I look back at some of my favorite memories, I think they are like short stories or snippets. I like them a lot. Of course some memories aren’t so great, but those are still stories.

So, how does one create good stories? I am not sure, but I am reminded of something photographer Jim Richardson said – “If you want your pictures to be better, stand in front of more interesting stuff.”

I’d like to stand in front of more interesting stuff.

This past Halloween I really enjoyed dressing up in a costume, but it’s always difficult to decide what to be. I had a few ideas this year, but when I was thinking about different costumes, some things seem off-limits. For instance, dressing up in a costume of a profession that someone I know in real life actually is seems like it would be weird. A doctor or a policeman aren’t very good costumes for adults… kids would be ok I suppose. But then kids dressing up like baseball or football players is kind of weird because kids actually wear those things all the time.

Anyways, like I said it’s difficult to come up with costume ideas, but I have run across a few I thought were pretty clever… the problem is that when Halloween comes around the following year, I have forgotten what all those cool ideas were! Maybe I need to write them down, huh?