Curate your social media towards positivity
I've been focused on using social media to feed my passions and hobbies while my current season of life doesn't allow full pursuit of them. These include...
Scroll on to see the Instagram accounts I follow for each interest. At the bottom of the post, there are some final thoughts from yours truly! Enjoy :)
Instagram accounts that I follow for these interests
PHOTOGRAPHY
@postfocusphotography
Post Focus is a photography business, and you can see from the Instagram content that it's amazing! He posts from portrait and aerial sessions as well as recreational posts.
@stardustandmelancholy
Megan provides incredible coverage of Supernatural conventions, which is what brought me to her page. In black and white, she manages such detail! In her latest page format, she includes thought provoking quotes about photography.
@chrisschmelke
Chris also captures at Supernatural conventions! When he's not working with this wonderful cast, he posts content including nature photography.
@dexterthegoldendream
DEXTER IS A BEAUTIFUL DOG. Beyond this, his owner is a talented photographer! (She is featured in my art inspirations, Karoline Pietrowski!)
@gtalk_photos
âI wouldn't have a complete list without an SRU photographer! Garrett kills the nature photography game and has a particular liking of waterfalls.
To wrap my photography inspirations, I give you @marthay.k and @coffee.life.style, two accounts that boast beautiful shots around coffee!
To ease into the next interest: @hey.luisa This artist is known for combining reality with imagination, and she thrives at the place where photography meets digital art.
ART
@CWFPitt is the Pittsburgh Catholic Women's Fellowship page. I have it under art though because they have been posting a bunch of typography and design work that I really dig!
@troqman puts doodles into reality by #cartoonbombing
Coming in with beautiful watercolor art is @godsfingerprints
Repping #SPNfam, we have @sirlsplaylandart and her digital fan art!
Three illustrators with very similar styles bring beautiful character designs to my feed: @karolinepietrowski @lilys_wonders @eliza_illustrator
Wrapping up the illustration inspirations: the posts that led me to recently start following two accounts: @frau_annika and @illustrationsbyem
I also enjoy three comics which make me chuckle every time! I give you @nathanwpylestrangeplanet, @stuffedthecomic, and @popcoffeecomics.
GUINEA PIGS
I am in love with guinea pigs, but I can't get myself a pair until after I graduate and have the capacity to care for them. Until then, I follow @laguineapigrescue, @scottysanimals, and @wheekforguineapigs. For an additional sprinkling of adorable piggies, I follow #guineapigsofinstagram as well.
READING
@thisgirlsbookshelf always reminds me what I love about reading :)
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Some good nuggets from my Bible study this semester. Photo credit: Amazon.com This semester, I was in a Bible study group with three other students: my sister, one of my very close friends, and our group leader who is two years above me. We dove into part one of a Bible study written by Lisa Brenninkmeyer. It is a Walking with Purpose study called “Keeping in Balance”. Like I said we worked our way through part one of the study, “Harmony”. Please enjoy these notes, tidbits, and thoughts inspired by the study. If you are intrigued, want to find out more, or try the study yourself, it is available on Amazon! It is super efficiently designed for busy women to be able to tackle in big or small chunks of time throughout their days and weeks. Balance Through Authenticity
Balance Through Priorities
Balancing Expectations
O LORD, you have searched me and you know me. This passage reminded me so clearly of a writing by Laney Redmon I had read shortly before I completed this part of the study. You have always been there.
Balance in Relationships
Balance Between Mediocrity and Perfectionism
I hope you all had a beautiful Easter Sunday and are continuing to see the beauty of Resurrection all around you.
Over the weekend, I watched Spotlight with my newspaper and yearbook class. It is the story of the crew of The Boston Globe that investigated the abuse within the Catholic Church in the early 2000s. I am raised in the Roman Catholic tradition. I went to a Catholic grade school, which meant that I was sitting in Mass every Friday morning, every feast day, and most Sunday mornings or Saturday evenings since I was in kindergarten. Around 5th to 7th grade, my family started listening to K-LOVE, a radio station that plays Christian Contemporary music. Then my mom hurt her back about three years ago, and she was physically unable to sit in our hard church pews for an entire Catholic mass. So, we brought our faith into our home. We read the weekly readings and said the Our Father, Nicene Creed, sang hymns and had our own "prayer time." It enabled our family to talk about the readings, to make connections between them and our lives, to share prayer requests, to talk about what it means to believe in God, what it means to be a Christian, what it means to have faith and to act it out every single day. My dad started to forward us devotional emails from All Pro Dad and Focus on the Family and articles of Charles Swindoll. We have volunteered at our local food cupboard, and participated in our church's annual service project. We donate old clothes and textiles to St. Vincent de Paul. So I grew to realize the truth that my faith and the physical Church did not have to go hand in hand. I mean, think about it- where was Jesus when he performed most of the miracles? when he preached? He was in the fields, in the mountains, on the hillsides, even on stinky fishing boats!! I had heard about the abuse in the Church before, but I never dwelled on it- no one likes to focus of the flaws of the most holy institution in their life. This film did not turn me away from the Church because I can separate the Church from the men. The abuse was the MEN not the CHURCH. Before watching the movie I read Focus of the Family's movie review of it. The Plugged In staff had some good analogies and put the scandal in perspective in terms of men vs Church. But while God's Church is sacred, its churches can be less so. Those who fill sanctuaries are products of the world, too. Broken and battered. Sometimes evil slithers under the door, tainting classrooms and pulpits, defiling the very altar of our faith. Our priests and pastors and leaders can fail. Our shepherds can turn into wolves. Spotlight, the movie, makes for difficult viewing, particularly for those who hold priests and cardinals and the Catholic church itself in high regard. Indeed, the real-life scandal on which Spotlight is based is a difficult story for many Christians to acknowledge. But as painful as it is, it's absolutely right to laud those who brought the outrage into the open. Secrets like these need to be exposed: As Luke 8:17 reads, "For nothing is hidden that will not be made manifest, nor is anything secret that will not be known and come to light." The Catholic church is made of men, he says. But the Church—the real Church—is eternal. These coercive elements of power and faith make Spotlight a challenging, troubling movie—hard to watch, hard to get out of your mind. It sticks with you, as well-told stories do. As shocking stories do. It's a horrific reminder of the evil that people can do. Any people. But maybe that skepticism is good. Even wise. The Bible itself shows us many a fallen leader, many a hypocrite. None of those wayward souls diminished the Light that is Christ. And if we are honest, we will realize that what we see in Spotlight is a mess of humanity's making, not God's. This post is a review/comparison of three different cameras that I had the privilege of using this past week. I am an honorary member of my school's photography club. My sister, our friend, and I took cameras down to our pep assembly and football game on Friday night. These are my thoughts on each camera! (Nikon cameras were borrowed, Canon camera is mine) Nikon D3100 with an attached Nikon DX 18-55mm lens
Further information about activating the auto focus can be found in the online manual. Nikon Coolpix L820
More general information about the Nikon Coolpix can be found on this online manual! Canon PowerShot ELPH 130 IS (compact digital camera)
This manual can be found here! The Nikon D3100 is one of those professional looking SLR cameras. The Nikon Coolpix is a step down from that. My Canon camera is a small compact digital camera, but it serves its purpose well for me :) I hope this helped expand your knowledge of cameras!
5 out of 5 StarsThe Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is a mystery/novel written by Alan Bradley. I usually chase after fictional novels for young adults, not mysteries, so this was a first! I really did enjoy this book though, so it was a pleasant surprise. Story LineFlavia de Luce is a young girl who is obsessed with chemistry. Her secret passion is poison. She has two older sisters and lives with those two and her father in a big old estate. Everything was as normal as could be expected when Flavia finds herself eavesdropping in the middle of the night at the door of her father's study. The gardener/jack of all trades finds her and sends her back to bed. She wakes up a few hours later and strolls out to the garden. There she stumbles upon the mostly dead body of a man who she has seen before but cannot place. Flavia is there when the man breaths his last breath. From there Flavia is caught up in a whirlwind of murder, mystery, and the need to figure it out before the police. Buy the Book |
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