At Ease, This is Peace

Yesterday Megan and I developed the senior pictures we took for Maranda. I was beyond excited to develop them because the money that Maranda pays us I've been planning to save to get a new camera. I had found one that I had kind of wanted online for $599. That's quite a bit. A lot more than my parents spend on me for Christmas which is how I've gotten the rest of the expensive things I've wanted in the past. So we check out the digial cameras while we wait for the pictures to develop, and I find a Canon that I really fall in love with. I check the price and it's $815. Ouch? Alas, but I am in love. My want for the camera does not die. Don't get me wrong I tried to kill it, skimming through all the other less expensive cameras and examining. No such luck.

I arrive at school this morning just barely in time. I'm not a morning person. The first bell had already rung. I go to speech and Maranda has her pictures out. She hands them to people, to me, and lets us pick which ones we want. I picked the favotire I took of her and my favorite Megan took of her. Emily has her pictures too and starts talking about how expensive the photographer who did hers was. Tabby who is sitting next to Maranda over hears and says there's no way she'll be able to afford to go to that photographer, which is what she had planned to do. She then asked me if Megan and I could do her pictures. I was kind of shocked and spat out "Yeah!" I knew that meant more money. We just have taken Rudy's also, which is more money, and late Tabby says her boyfriend may want us to do his, that's a lot of money! Funny how things work out?

Coincidence? I don't believe in coincidence... not in cases like this anyway. Not when things add up. Maybe I'm wrong, but I dont think so.

Today I got the pleasure of taking my best friends senior pictures. She's beautiful inside and out, her being my closest friend I know all about her beauty, and I got to capture it. I was a little worried though because I know she's an artist and I know that she is picky. Luckily she liked them! It was a great feeling not only to be able to capture her true beauty, but for her to notice it in something I've created. It's probably one of the best feelings I've ever had.

It starts to get dark and we decide we will quit for the day. We drive home listening to This Beautiful Republic. We both like them and we both were singing along. Our voices blended in to the voice coming from the speakers. Her pretty higer voice and my deeper voice harmonizing. We sang the songs. We meant the songs. We felt the songs. Our ride came to an end and she presented me with the first $40 from Maranda to save and sometime spend on my beloved Canon.