Each Thursday morning when I’m driving on my way to work, I pass a church that has three people outside greeting commuters on their way to work. One person always waves to oncoming traffic while others are maybe serving coffee to people who walk by. I like to think that she is waving AT me personally and I wave back. The first time I did that, I think I caught her by surprise. That makes my Thursday morning when we wave at each other. It’s just one of those little things that I try my best to slow down enough to enjoy.
Another thing that I slowed down enough to do recently was take pictures at the park. My intent was to take photos of the beautiful blooming trees that are found throughout Saint Louis. I did get those photos done; however, I also ended up taking photos of other people as well. First, I was stopped by a woman who didn’t really speak English. She wanted me to take pictures of her and her children. The children were climbing on a wall or structure and it was kind of hard to get them to all stand still and face me at the same time. It was kind of funny in a way, one kid would not be ready, then once he was ready, someone else wasn’t. And it just kept going on and on. One kid just flat out refused to have his face in the photo so I took the picture with him looking away. On my way back to the car, I was stopped by a couple who wanted me to take a picture of them as well. They were in their early twenties and obviously happy to be with each other in the park that day. I just hope I was able to capture their happiness in my photo. I’ll never know but hopefully they can look back on the photo years later with happy memories (instead of being annoyed at the bad photographer, lol).
It’s almost time for me to walk out of the door to head to work – gotta run (but slowly)!