It is cold, overcast and dreary. I am feeling introspective and pensive. It must be the "ashes to ashes" thing of this beginning of Lent. So it seemed like a good time to play with the color options on my camera and see what happened. There is a sepia and a cyanatype option. The blue of cyanatype made a much brighter and optimistic picture. The sepia was more how I am feeling. Old in the fashion of time and thoughtful. Almost sad but not quite. Waiting.
I have settled on a Lenten discipline which I will just keep to myself for now. It requires both real daily discipline but involves creativity and reaching out to others in a thoughtful way. It will be good for me -- both the creativity, which I so enjoy and do not spend enough time developing, AND the reaching out which I usually do on the spur of the moment. So this is a good all round discipline. May God be with me these forty days.
