A CAMERA, TWO KIDS AND A CAMEL

As most of you know, I belong to a Facebook book club.

Yeah, yeah, call me a geek...

Last month the book could not be purchased on Ibooks

so I had to buy the old fashioned, good smelling, 

hard cover book. Unfortunately, there was an address

mix-up with Amazon and I just received the book a few 

days ago,  long past the book night to discuss this one.

I figured I would not read it right away, focusing on 

this months book instead.

Yet, when the book came in I was intrigued, fell in love 

with the cover and the excitement of holding the book in my hand.

Last night, I settled in the comfy bed of HOBL and I's 

to at least begin the book.

Because it is mostly a picture book, I did not stop until 

well past 10:00pm and I had read it from cover to cover.

If you do not purchase another book this year, 

purchase this one for your family, it is a coffee table 

book, meant to not only be looked at but to be read.

It is based and written by 

ANNIE GRIFFITHS BELT

Her writing has me wanting to conquer the world.

It made me wish I had been so brave as to travel the world

as this woman has done. 

It made me appreciate my gypsy baby more for the 

courage she has to just go and live her life,

hoping that she too, does some traveling and following of dreams.

The basis of the authors writing

is that she is a photographer for National Geographic.

She married her husband after making a trip for NG as the writer.

They had two children, Charlie and Lilly who accompanied 

them on most of their excursions all over the world.

Annie speaks of her husband being the writer,

I beg to differ. You will see from her beautiful photos

that she is a first class photographer but you will also see

her writing from her heart is the making of an awesome writer.

I think of her children, who are now older, one in college, the other

in high school and the life they have lived traveling the whole world.

I am envious of these kids and even have a short lapse of 

actually being jealous of not having been born to these parents.

One of the reasons of many that I had to finish the book last night

is her wonderful writing on what she now believes to be true having

traveled and met so many people all over the world:

"AS A PHOTOGRAPHER I HAVE LEARNED

THAT WOMEN REALLY DO HOLD UP HALF OF THE SKY.

THE LANGUAGE ISN'T ALWAYS NECESSARY, BUT 

TOUCH USUALLY IS, THAT ALL PEOPLE ARE NOT

ALIKE, BUT THEY DO MOSTLY HAVE THE SAME

HOPES AND FEARS, THAT JUDGING OTHERS

DOES GREAT HARM BUT LISTENING TO THEM

ENRICHES, THAT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO HATE A GROUP

OF PEOPLE ONCE YOU GET TO KNOW ONE OF THEM

AS AN INDIVIDUAL."

Is this not one of the most beautiful sentences you have ever read?

This is exactly how I feel put into words so eloquently.

Sit and read that sentence a few times. 

Really, let it sink in and really think about all it says.

I now have a desire to learn more about the world.

I have a desire to start a collection of

National Geographic and learn all about the my world that I have

so neglected in my past. I have the time, I want to learn

thanks to Annie Griffiths Bell

and her wonderful book,

A CAMERA, TWO KIDS AND A CAMEL