Full Circle Moment

This is a 6x12 layout that is going into a mini book about our recent trip to Maine.

 

Journaling: "Divine - Full Circle Moment - September 2011: We had been the only ones on Precipice Trail since we started out so early & were the first in the parking lot & then just as we came to this spot, an older man appeared out of notwhere and offered to take our picture - Here! This moment was so powerful for me. We came upon the very same rock that my Dad and I sat on when I was your age and I realized that this climb was a full circle moment - I was completing a journey that I started when I was a girl. I was conquering a fear and saying goodbye to my late Dad and Hello to the young man my son is becoming."

 

I seriously had quite a moment - but Mac didn't let me sit long and linger over it - he knows I'm prone to getting sappy - he was all about getting up that mountain - looking forward - not back. I learned a lot from my son on this trek and resolved lots of feelings that I hadn't planned on addressing but am so glad that we took this hike. It was the closest thing I've come to a funeral for my Dad - since I wasn't able to go to the actual one since I was 8 months pregnant with my daughter and couldn't fly; and the closest thing I can imagine what parents feel at a bar mitzvah or coming of age for their son ceremony. The whole experience was awesome and I'll never forget it.

 

Challenge: To use a variety of patterned papers on one layout.

 

Done