Day 57: The Bright Spots

This blog's most recent posts are almost a complete recounting of the crappy week I've had. It's not that these were the worst things to happen to me, but such a high concentration of bad news and bad health was a little hard to swallow. I'll be able to look back at this week for a long time to come and think, "Wow, it didn't get much worse than that, did it?" But I can also choose to look past the laundry list of misfortunes that plagued me this week and simply focus on the bright spots, the few moments that are always there to prove that the whole thing wasn't in vain. I'm glad I lived this week, just like I'm thankful for every week. I've had some pretty memorable experiences, good and bad, things that pushed me to my limits in more ways than one. I needed that.

I went into the day feeling pretty inspired to write (adversity is a great motivator for telling a story, it seems), but not so much on the photo-of-the-day front. Then I wandered out into the rain showers that occurred on and off today, and snapped this little gem that I didn't even realize I had taken at the time. I was expecting to take a fairly uninspired picture today, but I think I'm more proud of this photo than most of the others I've taken so far. It's one of the bright spots.

Can we go back to the beginning? When all of
this was new and nothing's known
And you were free.

Song: "Half-Acre" by Hem. Indie folk-pop.

Also, this was supposed to go in yesterday's blog but I forgot it. Another 4 weeks of blogging means another batch of songs. Here's volume II, from the second month of the project.

29. For Real - Okkervil River
30. Heron Blue- Sun Kil Moon
31. Let Go - Frou Frou
32. The Birth and Death of the Day - Explosions in the Sky
33. The Thief - Brooke Fraser
34. There's No Place Like Home - LOST Soundtrack
35. Uprising - Muse
36. Headlights - The Classic Crime
37. Better Days - Goo Goo Dolls
38. Four Score and Seven - Titus Andronicus
39. Into the Fire - Thirteen Senses
40. Boston - Augustana
41. Say It Right - Nelly Furtado
42. Astraea - Oh, the Story!
43. Ask Me Now - Blindside
44. A Guide to Marine Life - Falling Up
45. Long Way Down - Haste the Day
46. Face Down - Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
47. Eyes - Rogue Wave
48. War All the Time - Thursday
49. One of Those Days - Joshua Radin
50. Swim - Jack's Mannequin
51. Changing - Saosin
52. Doesn't Remind Me - Audioslave
53. It's About Time - Barcelona
54. Eyes on Fire - Blue Foundation
55. Blue Sky - Emily West
56. Alone - Sanctus Real