I have just returned from my trip out to Pennsylvania (beautiful) and it was a truly amazing, refreshing, and inspiring roadtrip, couldn't have asked for anything better. There was one sort of funny thing that I noticed; however, along each stop on the trip the residents of each city seemed to think less of their city than the people visiting it. So the residents of dry Texas were awed by the wide plains of cropland in Illinois and Ohio & the residents of Ohio were mesmerized by the mountains of the East and so forth and so on. I am really interested in this phenomenon of not appreciating what is already around you, the "grass is greener" taint on life.
And so, knowing that all three of us will be getting the opportunity to go to an entirely new location in the coming months and look upon them with fresh eyes, my challenge this week is for us to look at a place that we are already familiar with and try to find the "hidden gems" or the unappreciated aspects that we never noticed before. I triple dog dare you to LOOK!
I took a few photos on my trip, because I felt the camera lens was the best medium for me to work with, but if you prefer to write a poem or discuss something or just point something out, go for it! The point is simply to look at things newly!
Peace!
Liz
