Life's Funny That Way

National Earth's Rotation Day

It's National Earth's Rotation Day. Oddly, I just today ran across one of my favorite quotes - that seems to go right along with this day: Your life consists of two dates with a dash in between them. Make the most of that dash. Another of my favorite quotes is on a refrigerator magnet that come from this very website, WdC.
"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing," which is attributed to Ben Franklin.
Both of these speak to me on National Earth's Rotation Day. For the most part, the Earth just keeps rotating and we take little notice, other than to mark the passing of day into night and night into the next day. We often let days slip by, not writing anything worth reading or doing anything worth writing. We just add to that dash between dates rather than making the dash a heart beat, spiking with any sort of excitement.
Of course, it is impossible to make every day an adventure, right? Or are we able to find small adventures every day but we either choose not to or we are too busy making a living to make a life? I suppose each of us needs to answer that question for themselves.
We take vacations. We attend birthday parties and weddings. Those are special and memorable days. But what will be memorable about next Tuesday, or February 6, or any other given date?
Besides this blogging challenge, I have also undertaken a photography challenge for the month of January, and I am including it here because I believe photographs are great at spurring creativity. The challenge is to choose one photograph you have taken every day - it does not have to be anything stellar, but just a photograph. First, I feel like this makes me stop and take notice of at least one thing per day. One day it was my dog. Another day it was my keyboard. There have been a few really cool photos so far, but there have been some that seemed mundane as well. Even those seemingly mundane photographs, however, could spark some creativity at some point.
The basis for the challenge is to improve my photography, or course, and to try new techniques. But at the same time, it does make me stop and take notice of at least one thing per day. Sometimes I get out my camera and find special shots. Other times I simply use my phone camera. I have even used props such as my Lensball. But no matter how I accomplish it, as the Earth rotates every day, I can stop it just for a second, and take a photograph. Whether it is only one photograph or several that eventually turn into stories, it is a win to me. In any event I have at least one photograph by which to remember each of January's rotations of the Earth, and that seems kind of cool.