women have the power to transport us and transform us.
the unexpected part is that it happens through transforming themselves.
we were all transformed first by a woman who transformed herself in pregnancy and birth.
that life giving force is in all of us, whether literally or figuratively on any given day. to give life to others and give it to ourselves at the same time–that is the quest of my womanhood, for sure, and I think in some application for all of us. we change every day, every minute, so when jared comes home and asks, “how was your day?” i never have any idea where to start because my day was a glob of moments, some beautiful, some hard, some mundane, some boring, some otherworldly. it seems we women are the guides who light the path in gliding through all those, starting in childhood with recognizing and naming emotions, and holding space, and loving daily and differently based on their needs and ours, and trying to find the overlapping moments that feed us both.
i have adored the book Gift From The Sea since high school, when i internalized maybe half of it, having no family of my own to apply to, but my first exposure to gorgeous words of self reflection about what it meant to be a woman, and to be human–jus’ listen: “When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity – in freedom, in the sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass, but partners in the same pattern.”
Hi hey hello it’s Brooke family photographer lady based in Utah who wants to photograph you and your people because every moment you are changing, remember, so photographs freeze you and them exactly as it is right now and that is something of unparalleled beauty so THERE. so let’s chat about your session.
