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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Advice from a Dog - Stealing Life from Death

I have determined that the most beautiful element in the art of scrapbooking, is that the scrapbooks are the stories of our lives.  They are about the beauty, fear, happiness, anger, joy, sadness, and love that we have experienced.  They are an artistic representation of our journey.  They are a pictorial journal.  They are our legacy.  


This morning, my Grandmother is on my heart and my mind.  While I woke up to an absolutely GORGEOUS spring day, she was headed in for surgery while battling pneumonia.  While I was breathing in the fresh air on my walk, she was breathing in an oxygen mask.  While I was listening to the birds chirp, she was listening to the beeping of the heart monitor.  Oh the things in life we take for granted.


I have recently finished a book titled "The Art of Racing in the Rain" by Garth Stein.  This book is narrated by a dog.....a most profoundly deep and insightful dog.  As I read through it I found one enlightening quote after another.  This morning, as I thought of my Grandmother and the moments we take for granted, I was reminded of one of the greatest quotes from the book.



 "To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live. To feel the joy of life. To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter every day. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something to aspire to."


Tears of  gratitude filled my eyes as I allowed the words to absorb into my heart.  For this scrapbook page I choose to not include a photo.  I wanted the observer to not be distracted with a photo, but instead be struck by the beauty of the words and what those words mean to them.  I want to live by those words.  I want them to be the story of my life.  I want people to look through my scrapbook, my journey, my pictorial journal, and see that I lived each day as if it had been "stolen from death."  What will your scrapbook have in it?

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