Comments on: To Serve https://www.promotingpassion.com/to-serve/ Finding passion. Sharing passion. Promoting passion. Mon, 15 Sep 2014 01:52:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 By: Shonda Hilton https://www.promotingpassion.com/to-serve/#comment-25377 Mon, 15 Sep 2014 01:52:05 +0000 http://www.promotingpassion.com/?p=2115#comment-25377 Brooke,
I wanted to say THANK YOU! I met you yesterday at ClickAway and it was amazing to hear you speak from your heart about passion and showing the world your vision through photography. I have created a note on my phone for ideas that have started to flood me. I had only 1 idea yesterday before I met you and now I have 7 written down. It is like hearing you unlocked an outlet that I had shut off because I didn’t think people would get it including my husband. I closed off all the dark feelings because I thought I shouldn’t have them in my fairly normal/happy life. I now see I can have an outlet and share these feelings. A million times over THANK YOU!

]]> By: Bree Gaudette https://www.promotingpassion.com/to-serve/#comment-23766 Tue, 09 Sep 2014 23:14:59 +0000 http://www.promotingpassion.com/?p=2115#comment-23766 Good questions!
I want the world to understand that you always have a choice. Always. No matter how small or limiting or desolate your options feel at times, there is still choice, and that’s a powerful thing.
I want the world to see what they normally walk on top of everyday. I want them to know the splendor in the grasses, the grains in the ocean floor, and the wonder of the world of trees.
I want the world to love well and widely. To on an energetic level, but consciously. I want them to understand and practice compassion with every single life form on (and off!) the plant.
Oh, and world peace. 😉
Thank you for prompting those answers out of us, what a useful inner dialogue!

]]> By: Paulo Alexandre Carvalho https://www.promotingpassion.com/to-serve/#comment-23710 Tue, 09 Sep 2014 18:29:52 +0000 http://www.promotingpassion.com/?p=2115#comment-23710 Love the image, Love the post. 🙂

]]> By: Sarah Allegra https://www.promotingpassion.com/to-serve/#comment-23702 Tue, 09 Sep 2014 17:39:05 +0000 http://www.promotingpassion.com/?p=2115#comment-23702 Beautifully written! I love your butterfly goal, I think I’ll adopt that as well 🙂 Great post as always!

]]> By: lovelyn https://www.promotingpassion.com/to-serve/#comment-23701 Tue, 09 Sep 2014 17:33:45 +0000 http://www.promotingpassion.com/?p=2115#comment-23701 The world is a wide open space full of possibilities, vision, and color. There is a fully of anticipation in each moment. I’ve always been attracted to dragonflies. They represent living life to its fullest to me. They are fast and their eyes are positioned so they can see all around them. They live life hard because they know their time is limited.

]]> By: Melanie Bryan https://www.promotingpassion.com/to-serve/#comment-23695 Tue, 09 Sep 2014 16:23:47 +0000 http://www.promotingpassion.com/?p=2115#comment-23695 I have just now realized that fine art is what I really want to do and I feel that my biggest challenge will be using symbols and photography to relay the proper emotion(s) that I want to convey. Thank you for the continued kind words and inspiration.

]]> By: Mike Claydon https://www.promotingpassion.com/to-serve/#comment-23692 Tue, 09 Sep 2014 15:53:26 +0000 http://www.promotingpassion.com/?p=2115#comment-23692 Brooke – You will probably think I am past it as I am retired but one of the things I have learnt in life is always be prepared for change. If you do not change you are stuck in a rut. But there are times when despite everything you get depressed. Last year I was in hospital for 3 months having operations. I really thought the end had come – but I came through. There was hope at the end of the tunnel and we have to hang on to that however tenuous it might be.

I love your pics
Mike

]]> By: Tom Newforge https://www.promotingpassion.com/to-serve/#comment-23681 Tue, 09 Sep 2014 14:46:46 +0000 http://www.promotingpassion.com/?p=2115#comment-23681 Brooke I am still working towards learning the means to represent my vision but I think mine will be that there are still wonders to behold in this life. We have just barely scratched the surface of our understanding on everything and anything. Anyone who tells you differently has much to learn.
I’d also like to show that despite how it may look at times, there are really good people out there. People who genuinely mean to lift those around them. To tell people how they “can” instead of why they “cannot”.
We are taught constantly that this is a naive point of view. That the world is hostile and to survive we too must be hostile. I’ve been fortunate enough to have a few people in my life to show me differently.
The secret is understanding. Through understanding we can realize kindness and through kindness we can achieve happiness. One of the happiest moments in my life was seeing someone else’s success and knowing I had an anonymous hand in that success. I didn’t need credit or validation for it.
This view may not ever make me rich or successful by some standards but I hope that at some point through my art that someone somewhere will smile or be inspired to create:)

]]> By: Andrea Gore https://www.promotingpassion.com/to-serve/#comment-23670 Tue, 09 Sep 2014 14:04:08 +0000 http://www.promotingpassion.com/?p=2115#comment-23670 For me the world looks like an opportunity, an adventure. I always try to portray movement and emotion. Both I feel are so important for growth. I want to be constantly learning and expanding as an individual and I think my photos help me pour out all that comes with that journey. It is hard to narrow down specific symbols as I feel there are so many I identify with. The moon is for sure something that I find constant inspiration in. Sometimes bright or hidden by clouds, showing in crescent form or full force it is always present. I hope that people could say one day I was always present. Through the good and the bad or changing of circumstances I was always REALLY there in the best way that I could be. I think that is the biggest message I would like to portray as well. Always be present. Always be real. Even if you can only muster up half of yourself in a day. Let that half shine for what it really is. Thanks Brooke <3

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