So today marks the start of this year’s #The100DayProject – 100 days of doing something creative – and posting about it on Instagram. I LOVED this project last year. And I am pretty excited to start it again this year.
Just like last year, my plan is to take a photo of the sky every day for the next 100 days. Last year, I found this practice profoundly enlightening; even on the greyest days, I was forced to find beauty in the clouds. And on the days with the clearest of blue skies, I was forced to find something interesting to capture. All of which, of course, is oh so applicable to real life . . . that even in the worst of situations, there is a little bit of good (you just have to search for it). And that things are never truly interesting if they are completely “perfect”.
So . . . without further ado, I’m kicking this year’s project off . . . with a photo of the stormy skies we’ve had all day today.
Even though I was hoping (kind of like last year) for a spectacular sunrise, I am not disappointed to have had grey skies all day today. 100 days from now, these same trees will all be covered in brilliant green leaves. The flowers will be in bloom. And the birds will be happily chirping. Or, to put it differently, within the span of the next 100 days, we will be out of the grey rainy days of April and into the sunny, verdant days of summer. A metaphor for life if ever there was one . . . out of grey, difficult times, we emerge, a brighter, more interesting version of ourselves.
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