It was mostly overcast this afternoon here in NoDa, Charlotte. I was working late in the studio this evening, sorting through business documents & receipts — many as old as 2002 (!!) that I found in an old box...

I left my present life and drifted off, reminiscing about times that feel like another life... feeling sentimental... nostalgic... with a tinge of melancholy... things, events, experiences, places & people in the past.

It felt... finite.
So distant.
Like it didn’t even belong to me, my life.

Then my studio was suddenly & completely awash in a brilliant burst of glowing, warm sunlight that streamed through the windows in my studio. It lasted only a minute... just enough to snap a few pics... and then the setting sun fell below the trees.

So grateful for divine moments like this to remind me that time moves forward and all of these pieces of history created this life.

Do you ever look back on your own life and wonder... how was that ALSO this same life? If so, what causes you to reminisce (or even regret) in this way?

 

Setting sun falling into the Shy Siren jewelry studio
Old receipt from take-out Chinese restaurant in Brooklyn, NYC


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