You’ve heard of “spilling the beans” but have you heard of “spilling the beads.” I hadn’t until a month ago when I heard a great speaker talk about marriage and one of the keys to making it last.
I’ve had this topic in mind the past week since the sneak peek of my interview with Frederick Van Johnson, host of This Week in Photography Podcast (TWiP). He interviewed my husband and I for the show and one of the topics that came up was marriage and working together in business. In the photography and video worlds, it is extremely common for husband and wife teams to work together so it’s definitely a topic of interest to many.
Whenever I talk about that topic I think of the speaker who used the analogy of beads to describe how relationships and marriages succeed or fail. Short version is that each of us basically have our set of “beads” or stuff on the inside, for better or for worse. Some of us are full of joy, laughter, fun, excitement, while others are the opposite. And it can change based on your mood or circumstances.
When you’re married or in any relationship, we bump up against each other and “spill our beads.” Whatever is inside is going to spill out onto the other person. The problem is that we often think it’s the other person’s fault for “making” us spill our beads. When in reality, whatever came out (anger, frustration, resentment) was already in there and we just got bumped hard enough to let it spill.
Anyway, it’s an interesting concept and I decided to use it for my daily photo. I photographed my clear mug of pink beads I keep on my dresser to remind me of this principle. I really would’ve liked to capture the falling beads in stop action, but I didn’t have enough light or speed at the time to really create what I wanted, so I did what I could and went with this image where you see just one lone bead on the verge of spilling over. An apt representation for today’s post.
You can listen to the series, Staying in Love: Feelin’ It online.
Manual: Page 56—Protecting Photos from Deletion. An important thing to know. I don’t use this feature much, but have on occasion when I forgot to clear my card and already started shooting a new event. I’ll lock the ones I want to keep and then delete all.
Images: Looked at images by Alisha+Brook Photographers. Oprah says, “…they are fabulous photographers catching every moment.” They’ve also been voted one of the Top Ten by American Photo Magazine in 2007. Brook is a friend of mine on Facebook and he posted some beautiful new images today so I browsed the gallery.
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