for a person project…how a sport event felt to me.

i felt these were real and spirited and free. honest. open. candid. slightly studied. while i had more than my share of favorites from the day, i think because of how these unfolded so naturally, they are perhaps those that represent things the best.

there were more than a few moments when i understood why others so love editorial work (and how much goes into all that). but more than anything, i am reminded time and again of how much i love working kids. all kids. the connection i feel – even with ones i don’t even know – always astounds me.

it warmed my heart to be invited to this little gathering…to be thought of as family. by two girls who remind me in some ways of my nieces. i had no idea what to expect save a suspicion that the event (hosted by  the northshore nordstrom kids department) would be filled with class, with lightness and an abundance of sweet faces. the day began with dressing, then a little hair & makeup…refreshments, a welcome, a walk on “the runway” & ended with balloons and a finale.

seeing kids immersed in this all exemplifies spring….and the lifting of one’s spirit. there was such a lightness to the day and in so many ways, shone a light on the true spirit of fashion. here are highlights – the more traditional ones – in color.

“when they looked out into the whiteness of the world the wind flung it sharply at their narrowed eyes and foreshortened their view of everything.” ~ excerpt from chapter 12, falling on white cedars

i read this book a long time ago and yet this phrase so perfectly summarizes things for me of late. how a narrow point of view can skew reality. how the world can feel fuzzy and completely incomplete. how everything can look clouded over. how darkness can cover up the white. yet within this distorted perspective, there is a part of me that knows the truth. and when i allow myself to fall into that, to fall into the white cedar, it is there that i find relief. it’s where i see past the whiteness to the white. it is there that i discover magic.

please…do continue on. there are so many others with unique points of view beginning with a kind soul & good friend…  Sara Kelly {Photography} in Swarthmore, PA.