Take a photograph every day for your new project, 366. It will be fun to try to document everyday life and a good exercise to help you think more about how you make photographs.
Take a Polaroid photograph every week to represent that week. Store it in a lovely new Moleskine journal. Perhaps one of the nice new softcover ones.
Attempt to write down one main thought or idea from each day. Maybe it’s only a word. Maybe a complete thought. It will be interesting to look back on periodically.
Start a photography course. And complete that course.
Listen more. To everything and everyone. Sermons. Friends. Strangers. Street preachers. Prostitutes. Pastors. Leaders. Teachers. Children. There is a lot that you could learn from them.
Work out what Sabbath will look like for you this year. And keep it.
Look after your body better. Eat better. Exercise. Sleep.
Memorise more Scripture. One verse a week seems a good place to start? Write it out and stick it everywhere so you cant miss it.
Simplify. Be able to pack everything you need into two bags by the end of 2008.
Find, purchase, and read Rilke’s Letters To A Young Poet (finally).
Go to Africa in June. Take a lot of pictures. Explore. Dream. Be.
Learn to process film. Finally unbox the stuff Neal left you, figure out how to use it, and then start shooting film again.
Finally build the portfolio website you’ve been talking about doing for 2 years.
Find and purchase a Polaroid SX-70 for a reasonable price. Or at least one you can afford.
Go back to Chicago. You love that place. Explore it. Spend time with friends.
i wrote a list and keep wanting to add more. maybe i will, maybe not.
Sounds like a great list. I tried to do photo-a-day last year… I got to 41 photos in the course of the year, maybe I’ll try photo-a-week this year, heh. It’s a great way to look back on the year though and I hope you have more success!
Let me know how you get on with the processing and give me a shout if you need a hand getting started.
Suz – got back on Thursday, loving it! Hope to see ya soon.
Jon – good to hear from you! Are you still in Southampton? Photo-a-day is tough going already, but I do think it’ll be a really good excercise for me so I’m gonna keep trying with it! I’ve not even unboxed any of the stuff Neal left me yet, once I have a nosey I may be calling upon you for some direction!
i love your list, Emma! You are a special young woman. God’s young woman.
indeed… me too… i’m hopeful!