Moving Forward! Step by step!!

The response to this idea has been both exciting and heartwarming! I sent out another round of emails to various people whom I have been talking with about this idea, and offering opportunities for them to get involved in whatever way might best use their gifts and experience.

If you would like to get involved in supporting this effort, you can go to:
http://www.thismoment.org/contactthismoment.asp

I was talking with someone today about people who hear about this idea. Many immediately "get it", and some may not yet really understand. I am actually encouraged by both types of responses, in different ways.

1) I am encouraged by the large number of people who understand the value of this, just when I explain the idea to them.

2) When I hear of people who have a hard time imagining ThisMoment.org and the gift that it offers, I see it as an opportunity, actually, to really make a difference in people's lives. In this culture where we uplift success, and beauty, and health, and fitness, and fashion, we avoid things like death, illness, pain, and hardship. What I hope to communicate through this is that there is another type of beauty in life, that is deeper and far more meaningful than the superfical "beauty" this world embraces. So ThisMoment.org is actually a gift for those who can't imagine this idea of photographing people who are dealing with life threatening illness or are under Hospice care, because perhaps some day they will start to understand. I guess I had to go through the death of my own Mom to understand. We look at death as such a sad thing. What is even sadder is to not embrace life, while our loved ones are still alive. And the saddest thing is to not be there for them, through that time. All I can say is thank God for Hospice and the people who make these hard times a little easier.