around her is silver pool of light

A few weeks ago, I (finally) made good on a promise to one of my beautiful ballerinas.  She’d asked me to take her senior photos only weeks after I found out I was pregnant with Rowan.  As the summer heat oppressed my large pregnant self and I grew more and more uncomfortable in the fall months, I put her session off again and again.  There was no way I could do her beauty justice while weighing 4,000 pounds and being constantly kicked by my growing baby.  Eventually I told her to find another photographer.  Surely someone else could do a better job than a beached whale.

But Demi, true to her nature, did something rather sweet and compassionate instead… she said  “I’ll just wait for you.”

After months of not picking up my camera and then weeks of photographing only Rowan, I found myself quite nervous the day of our session.  I wondered if I still remembered how to see light and find another person’s angles.  I felt like the Mad Hatter quote “you used to be much muchier, you’ve lost much of your muchness”.

Lucky for me I had a beautiful day and an even more beautiful model!  My sweet Demi-Doodle, thank you for having faith in me and I hope these were worth the wait…

This one is special to me because not only do Demi and I share an obession with Chucks, but also because she was the person to present Rowan with his first two itsy bitsy pairs of his own!

To my Dearest Demi,

keep writing,

keep daydreaming,

keep dancing,

keep becoming the incredible person that you are.

(And thank you for helping me find my “muchness”.)

Love,

Bing

p.s. I still owe you Lemon Sherbet… we must make a date before you abandon me for college.

Ninja Thought of the Day:

“An author doesn’t necessarily understand the meaning of his own story better than anyone else.”

-Alice in Wonderland

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~28 years old ~Photographer, Dance Studio Owner ~Wife to the coolest nerd in the world

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