Are we in March 2023?

I can say this first day of March 2023 definitely feels like the middle December instead of closer to the spring season. Currently I am in the office hiding away all buddle up in 32 degrees attire from head to toe almost. I have the third blizzard making a mess of outside but I got a hot cup of coffee to my right which was brewed perfectly in my opinion. While I am slipping the hot cup slowly just to enjoy it, I have two out of three big shepherds laying on fluffy beds next to the office, guarding me as usual and yet they are completely lights out instead! What am I going to do with these to two? And Max went into another room to hide away with his toys. Then again if I was them, I would be curl up too sleeping the day away. They are quiet lucky pups in my opinion but don't tell them that.

I thought I would start the introduction to this blog post today on this winterly cozy day before I got distracted working on other blogs post even though you will see the other blogs post before this. Hello All !

It's been exactly nine days after I started this blog post, Let me tell you this time they weren't kidding when the blizzard arrived. There was so much snow that I have a shovel snow for a least three days in row just to make a little dent in making path ways for the dogs. The snow level was almost to my knees at some points and other areas it was practically at my hips. I still had snow until this morning when rain storm decided to melt the rest of the snow. I know mason had lots of zoomies for days after the blizzard, he easily got his cardio in each day. Maverick enjoy it when he could lay in the sun within the snow patches. Max just want to eat as much snow has possible before it goes away. They each have their own personalities when it comes to snow. I did get some fun content during the storm and the aftermath of it all. I haven't gotten around to post it all anywhere yet but of course I will when I have a moment. There's a few quite awesome time lapses I took during the snow, hail and everything else. I can confirm the pack I have knock down a tripod and sent my phone flying when they can, but mainly maverick with his tail . But don't worry the phone was not harmed in the process just sent flying repeatly throughout the day.

On another note I did mention in the nourishment post, I did enter in the winter photo contest locally again in the beginning of the year. And I won't keep you in suspense anymore than I have to. Well the turn out was good, there was quite different artists that took part in the contest. Like I have said previously my only aim is to beat my own work each show. And think the outcome was not too shabby this round. I didn't get best in show but Maybe next time, I will snag that one! My outcome was four out five entered which is pretty good in my opinion. The categories I entered in were People, Black and white, Transportation, animals of course. Each show I start out with rough fifty pictures that I think they are the best then from that fifty, I narrow it down to fifteen to print. Then I sat them to the side for a week before the show, to forget them for awhile for a days. After those few days pass I make a top eight with photo matts possible titles with fitted categories. And some how the day before the window closes to enter them I always end up with six in hand. Then I walk in the gallery on the last day with the six but walk out with one that my intuition told me to wait on. And I like to think it's my process of how I do it each time that make me successful each time. Now that I got that out of the way, on to what you really want to know; what were the photos that won. In order was in the first place was "Gang of Eight " in the animal category which was a group of eight giant Elk watching the hot air balloons flying. And trust me taking that photo particularly was interesting one to get at the time, last year.

We shall see if I get a better one this year. I also had a picture of an flying pelican over the blue ocean waves titled "Low Approach". That was different for me to enter in a contest and definitely hard to get clear shot when those guys fly across the waves. I won first place in transportation with one of my favorite captures from last year! I was secretly hoping that would place at least. It was a capture of a flying airplane in the sky and I titled that "Fly Girl Fly "because it was actually piloted by a female pilot that I saw at Edwards air force show.

Which I left made it in a septic color than printing it in regular color, I think in septic; it grasped the eye to know more about it. And it reminded of a old newspaper photograph.

I won second in the black and white category with birds flying off a cliff on a moody day by the ocean, I titled that one" Cast Ways". I titled that because it kind remined me of the ending of The Count of Monte Cristo. Lastly I had a photo place third in the people category of a parachute jumper flying out a jet and tilted that one, "Coming in Hot". That was also hard to get looking up in that hot sun in July at the base but I will say it was definitely worth looking up.

Looking at the set of photos from that I entered at the end of January. I definitely didn't notice the flying theme or the water elements either until now. I just thought they are all stand out as my best work for the year. And they each said something different to people looking at them in the gallery. Rather than that was the judges or just people looking at them during the show. I hope that I at least inspired one person to create their own beauty .Isn't funny when you reflect on something you did in the past that brings up another theme or meaning being brought in your present moment. And you think , "Oh wow I didn't see that one".

I hope you guys enjoyed this little read and my share of what I accomplished in the previous months. I just have been busy doing some things and living life that I have delayed lot of work but I keep my word; more things will be coming and things will be updated. I have been just a book worm just reading constantly and writing down my notes for the reviews. Currently I am in the world of Stephanie plum's. Lets say I have read three books back to back and I love every single second of it, when I open a novel by Janet Evanovich. I have just been happy in my own world, taking pictures, living life and reading novels. I hope you are happy and living your own little world to the fullest. Till then I will catch you in the next one since I am a little behind as always. X

See you soon !

love always , '

Misread

Twenty Twenty Three Nourishment Season

So lets pretend that is my new year 2023 post and this is my January post in one big post.

We all in Agreement ? Yes,great! Happy Twenty three ! I hope you all had a fantastic start where ever you landed between Twenty two and Twenty three.

I feel this year alone is going to be a big year not only for myself for those around me. There's just something about it and some say that the number 23 is a lucky number. So we shall see , what happens and I will report through out the year! Every year I choose a new years word than just a resolution that I mostly won't keep or remember half way through the year. And it works out better each year and the word I choose seem to be fitting for the year by the end if the year. So this years chosen word took me a little while after new years passed to figure out what that single word would be. One morning I woke up knowing what my intention would be for the year and that would is nourishment.

Nourishment. Means more than one thing for me personally and very fitting to my twenty-ninth year around the earth and I will get to that in a minute, I need more nourishment in my life again. The kind that makes the soul freeing , more laughs that lead to laughs on the floor for longer than need be. Nourishment in my own work that maybe is untapped potential, I almost feel that I am going to shock my own self by the end the year. And yes I have already planning how to step out a little more out of my own comfort zone. They say life is about just showing up for yourself and the rest will follow through. And I can tell you that's a life fact that we need to preach more. I already have been giving my body nourishment physically working on the body I want on the inside and out. I do have the soreness to prove it as well. That might be a little to much to information but I said it. Which I am only working on my body four days out the week for a little bit and that's enough for me and it makes me happy. And when I went away from everything , I was already working on my heart and my mind's strength of nourishment aspect. More time to force on pure genuine happiness that wasn't masked. More time out and about, walks in nature not distracted by the phone we are all get attached to. Don't get me wrong I was constantly taking pictures on my phone but I wasn't posting them at all. I guess my point is that I chose this nourishment because I felt like I have been missing that aspect out of life for a while. And that's okay that I did because it wasn't what I need then but what I want now. Nourishment doesn't have to mean just fuel for the body but it can mean so much more mentally ,emotionally etc. It's up to you to decipher what nourishment you need. Friends say I am more relaxed than I ever been before and yet like I used to be at the same time. I can easily say I am and I am more calm then I ever been as well even on my roughest days. I like to think I know this year might have its highs and lows like every year but It will all work out in the end because life has a balance to it. And maybe just maybe all the wildest wishes, dreams will come true. One never knows where things lead and that's probably why they call it life.

Speaking of wildest wishes and dreams coming true, this is my last year of the of the twenties and I can say I don't know where my own time went . One day I was 18 then 21 then 25 , I don't know where 29 came from but it's here . I am sure I am not the only one who felt like this in the in-between stage. Do you remember that growing up people say," One day you are going to blink and wonder how you got to be "old " so soak up these days ?." Well I can say at twenty-nine, I definitely wonder. I would say reflecting back a little but not too far down that rabbit hole of my life, I played life safe but I know I am older soul and beyond my years that could be apart of it. Does that makes sense? And yes that's the shortest synopsis I can give. I don't have many what I call classify as "wild stories " that I have heard from all walks of life. And trust me I have heard plenty of wild stories! Side note I know life doesn't just end at 30 just because it's a number and I know we can always reinvent ourselves at any given time point. Which I hope this year I could soak up as many as I can for the old memory bank. I also plan on not playing it so safe for this year, I don't have an answer on why ,other than why not ? I do feel like this year is my year and I accepting of it . Beyond just happy about it , where ever it leads . It's just where I am meant to be. Before my birthday I got an planner with the cover saying ;2023, the year she got everything she wanted . So I like to think it was already written in history before it happens. Some how I just know already.

And as far as my birthday this year, I didn't go to Las Vegas like I do every year. Which I was fine with that, there's always another time to go and another season to be there. And foodie cravings can wait at the party city. But let me tell you the day of my actual birthday , what could go wrong went wrong and sometimes one just has to laugh about that because I did. As life would have it lets cause chaos and see how she reacts kind of moment, I choose lets just go with it. And of course I requested Birthday do over. Which was good and it was relaxing ,there was beach time, good food and good company plus lots of free coffee. That's all I ever need for a birthday well maybe not three coffees in a row but I have learned at twenty-nine that I can only have two in a row. All the good food I had was nearly from all my favorite places in California. And No, I didn't eat all of the food I love in one day , it was spread over a few weekends. Trust me there was lots of traveling, hiking to walk off the calories of yummy food. There was also a few cliff hikes that led to straight off to the abyss and one string that would hold you up if you fall. Not my favorite part of mysterious walks sometimes but I lived and pretended I was completely fine even through I was dying in the inside and maybe a few tears rolling off my face is I am totally honest. There was a few happy accidents by finding new hidden gems by the sea that I never been to and I been to nearly all locations with a body of water in Cali. The question is will I remember to find those same spots off the beaten path for summer hikes, we shall see together. Minus that I highly recommend you guys check out Neptune's net in Malibu, Brophy Bros in Ventura Harbor and of course my favorite Blue Water Grill in Redondo beach for any occasion. Also check on Johnny's pastrami in culver city on Sepulveda and get the sandwiches just how they make it. Lastly check Falafel Arax in little Armenia, everything is good but my personal favorite is falafel sandwich. Of course as far as coffee shops go I can recommend the two I had during my birthday month , Coffee Cartel and Kamenz Kafe. As you know I love sharing a good food or coffee shop. I can list a whole lot more but I will keep to my top recommendations for now at least. Maybe that will be a future post one day !

In closing this beginning of the : "New year , New journey " post no matter where you are in life and what journey you on right now. Things will balance out in the end everything works out even if we don't think it will, it will. Trust that. Now you guys know that my word of the year is , what's yours ? I am curious to know, let me know. To be completely transparent ,so far this year seems to be blur way to fast so many things has happened that I don't even know what month we are in even. It seems every time I either try to write up a post or something related to misread , something comes up more important. As it stands right now I have a February/ March to finish writing up and at least three book reviews to write and post about . But I got a few questions ," Who has read the Bridgeton series?" And specifically the first three alone, "Which book is your favorite out of the first three?" I got to know ! I do have a favorite of my own. Also my aim over the next few weeks is to write a novella style story that's been on my heart for quite some while . Let's say this story has been living rent free in my head for at least a year. Did you know Stephen king said, if you have the same idea coming back to your mind lot and you can't stop thinking about it , you are meant to write about it. And I believe that writing any story sitting with it for long time before writing a word. A little sneak peak, I already have the title and the ending before anything . The title of the story is "I wish you could of loved me ". I don't know where that story will go but I know it's important to write. I do have good news to report but obviously I will be posting that on the next one! Letting the suspense build a little it involves photos and maybe a few awards.

Don't forget to follow me on all the socials for more.

With my love,

Misread

See you soon !

Well Hello 2023

Hi there , what can I say.. It's been awhile. You can call me missing in action Misread for now at least.

I got some explaining to do even though I don't have to explain anything at all. I was planning to come back after month of hiatus which then turn into two months hiatus and I have the blog posts drafts to explain everything to all of you . Where I was, and to some I was where you left me last and to others I am in a different place. To be honest I could just skip over all that and say it A new Year and It's a new me and go past all of that . But I am just not built like that . And definitely it's a new year, a new beginning ; I am different. And genuinely the most happy I have been in a long time.

So let me attached the past to understand misread.

P.s I will added other posts right after this, just needs to be said first.

Here's what I know in-between from my last post in July and till now, October/November 2022; there were things happening behind the scenes to which point I had to stop everything I was doing and considering what I pursuing with Misread. And let me tell you directly I was at the point in my head and heart to end misread completely because what was happening wasn't worth putting my heart in something I loved through it's own pain. I wasn't going to tell a soul about it, I was just going hit the delete button. By that being said I sat with that idea for a few months, toying with it. If any of my close readers would know that I think through every decision fully before I make move. I went through the stages of feelings of letting it go, like what humans do with relationships I cried, I got angry and drank.. Lots lots of dam coffee in-between and maybe a few pumpkin spices too. No alcohol was involved in the process but it felt like I should be. It felt like I was on empty road going no where to a unknown battle for a while, this wasn't something I could just share what's I feeling that would make sense.

I stopped writing the content I want, in the style I loved because it was getting the wrong attention. I am one of those souls who gives their all in their craft or passion. I wear my soul in my words, in my photos just as one sees someone smiling with their eyes. I can handle critics like everyone else but when things repeat over and someone creating over fifteen accounts to cause havoc. And continues to still try's because they have too much time on their time. Everyone has their breaking point. I could scream, I could shout and let it all out kind moment but I chose to just stop. I stop talking about things, about the things that excited me, where I have been etc. But also on the flip side of things since I wrote my Nene's piece, I had lots of healing to do through that and after that. I had to turn off my feelings to share my heart in any capacity because it was flood gate of feelings and that might be a writers dream but I didn't want anyone in that space for a long time. Don't get me wrong I love the connection of writing about a feeling or the thoughts that someone can relate to. I just didn't want my readers to feel what I was feeling fully while I was healing about loss and about my life. Also I wasn't ready to feel what my readers were feeling in return, ( a little insight, I feel what you feel when tell me how you relate to each piece ). To put it simply that I feel a lot more than I lead on in my personal life and in my work. And I have turned on my writing feels back on. And I am ready. My only aim in the work that I do on the platforms I am on is make people feel see, heard and respected.

By that all that I said thus far, I had to the take the time to not just heal about life and do the self work to heal in my own way. To not only see where I was and what I really what out of life and what I want life to be all while to understand the path my own feet where on. There was a little discussions between friends here and there that figured some things out. And those friends suggested the same things I was doing but also had friends that told me not to walk from the world I created. Here's a little funny thing , I will share there were a few ghosts that appeared in back in life briefly at the same time of things happening that kind of; said the very same things, that my friends said without knowing the impact. So the universe give me the message loud and clear on that subject of person misread.

Now also at the same time I summited some photos in another show during August. What should of been a happy time for me was short lived. But looking back the time, with the same Joy that I had then. It was successful experience and I was even in the paper a few times and on cover of an article. I submitted 5 photo in this round and I won first place in people and a honorable mention in travel. The first place photo was taken of my father at one of his favorite places in the High Sierras specifically at Convict Lake and possibly one of my favorite photos I have ever taken, it was called "Fisherman's Heaven". And the honorable mention was a picture of the Golden Gate bridge with the water splashing, which I titled: "Water under the Bridge" a from few years back. Everyone that submitted photos were all special in their own way. My only aim for this show was to beat my own work and possibly get best of show. And In my opinion I was hoping for Fisherman's Heaven to win which in the end it did and that made me happy , I was living on a high for that time. Again I felt I couldn't share that little win but people around found out and sent me good wishes. Which I fully appreciated for them to take their time to share that. And conveniently that how I found out I was in the articles through those friends. And course that made my soul happy that the people who care for me, are looking out for me even I am silent. Which just by writing that last sentence reminds me of my friend Johrei and the very thing he said to me in our last conversations ages ago and God knows I miss him, what a light he was in everyone's life.

I know the questions coming to your mind that I left unanswered for a while.

Like where have I been ? I been living life, coffee dates with friends, laying on a beach or two and have eaten plenty of yummy food that I might share. I also have been working on business things that needed my attention for a while .

And the next question is I am sure is "where new work/pieces coming our way ?." My short answer is Coming soon ! And my return question back , does this post count as work ? Just teasing, yes there will new story pieces but in all good timing of them. There has been a few that keep playing back of my mind and few unfinished ones that deserve to be finished and shared with you all. Also as well with the book reviews that I will adding to that section of blog that I owe you as well. I have a few good books to recommend that I have reading in my spare time. Sidenote Does anyone else have the same problem as I do when they are in any book section in any store? Do you come out of the store with more than book like me ? It happens every time in any where there's books involved.

In closing this sort of really coming back to misread and to me. I just wanted to explain where I was and where I am . And healing, living life is an important matter in any stage to evaluate one's self before anything else. I am a lot stronger than I give myself credit for. And I am grateful for who I am and I know where I am going, there's nothing that can stop me either.

That's all I have to say for this little intro back and I will in the next one !

Love,

Misread.