There is an energy to this time of year, when we sit down and list what we want to do and how we want to be. We welcome the changes that a new year brings. We write down our goals, we make plans to achieve them, we may even resolve to be more present, to savor the moment.
This year, at Portraits that Move, we are taking a slightly different approach to the coming year. Rather than list out resolutions, ways we want to be different, things we want to change about ourselves or our circumstances, we are choosing to focus on intention. All of us at Portraits that Move are committing to living and working and observing with intention. Rather than a resolution to be more, to do more, to change this or that in a quest for a goal, this year, we are listening to that voice that reminds us to stop, to look at our life, at our work and at our goals and to determine how they align with our intention to find joy and to be grateful.
We are lucky because doing so is exactly how we live out the Portraits that Move mission through the work we do as filmmakers every day. We get to find and celebrate joy and gratitude every time we document the lives of families, and we have the unique privilege of being able to reflect that joy and gratitude back to them when we deliver their Portrait Films.
This year, our team will work with all kinds of families. For each of them, the coming days and months will take twists and turns. In what seems like a moment, their children will grow, change, discover and surprise them. In those moments - the unexpected, the everyday and the in between - they will discover joy and gratitude, and we will help them to witness it, and to preserve it.
To you, the families we have grown with, and the new families we will meet this year, as you set your goals and state your resolutions, try to remember the peace and togetherness you found in the holiday season, or the peace and togetherness that you may have found at more unexpected, unplanned moments throughout the last year. Like all of us, you are busy, every day, building your lives and your memories.
Our wish for you, our intention for, and our promise to you in the new year, is that you choose joy and that you choose gratitude through all of the beautiful, messy, ordinary and chaotic days this new year has in store.