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**Disclaimer- This post is straight from my brain to your eyes. No proof reading has been done. I apologize for any grammatical errors, run on sentences, or misspelled words. I want you to hear my heart, as it is. Misspelled words and all.**

I’ve been reading a book lately about living in a spirit of gratitude. It seems like that, coupled with the amazing week I had last week at both a photography workshop and ImagingUSA (more on those later) has caused me to focus inward on myself: find out who I am, what makes me happy, what brings me the most joy. Who is Erin Alaine? Not who do I think I should be, or what I think other people think I should be, or even what kind of pictures I think people think I should take, but who am I really? Strip away all pretense, all social “dos” and “donts”, all “but so and so does it this way.”

My goal in doing this soul searching is to bring what I find into my images. I don’t want the pictures I take to be just pictures, I want them to be extensions of myself. I want them to convey all the love and emotion (and even fear) that I feel…that my subjects feel. “Well, how are you going to do that?” You ask. I don’t know. Not yet. But I’m on my way to finding out.

To help facilitate this, I’m going to be twittering every day for the next 10 days, little snippets of things that I’m picking up as I’m learning about myself and about who I am. Some of them may be enouragment to you, some of them may be something I’m just realizing about myself for the first time, but all of it will be things that have resonated with me and I am in the process of making my own and living it out.

If any of you are on the same path as I am, I challenge you to do the same. Make sure you @erinalaine me with your first twitter so I can follow your journey! I hope some of you do this because I’m excited for my journey, and hope to encourage you in yours!

Below is a project I worked on for a little bit this afternoon. I was so inspired by reading over my notes from the past week that I had to create something to express what I felt. It’s nothing super fancy. You may not like it. I like it because of what it says to me. I think I’d like to have it printed on a big canvas and hang it up in my husband’s studio as a daily reminder for myself. It’s also my first twitter in this twitter challenge. I’ll be twittering it soon. Go over and check it out!