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Sitting with my first cup of tea in 2012 this morning, I started looking at photos of the last few days and got side-tracked way back through what was 2011.

As I trawled further and further back through the snapshots of what was a complicated, challenging and yet interesting year,

I started to notice that the pictures that I stopped at, that made me smile and remember, were not the grand days or the glorious achievements (few and far between as they were), but the sometimes quite arbitrary pictures snapped off in an ordinary day.

I often take pictures of funny things Phoebe (the fox terrier) does in the Barefoot mans absence or of something I’ve found in a cupboard that my mom might remember and mms these little images out as missives from daily life in my world.

I love the quirkiness of what we laugh at and what moves us in an ordinary day,

and I especially love how a small, un-composed and un-refined photo can evoke so much when you come across it again.

And it reminded me that in building these things we call lives and brands, sometimes it is the small, quiet moments that become the most significant in retrospect.

Sometimes the fleeting encounters, the quiet decisions,

the unexpected experiences and the small glimpses are the moments that make everything else shimmer.

The small things, the ones we sometimes miss in our hurry, are often the ones that make everything else seem worthwhile.

2011 is done.

May 2012 bring you many small, beautifully ordinary moments to make your new year glow.