Nimavenl - Nicole's Random Ramblings

Each of us Is all of us. I signed up for Chabad's Daily Dose emails a while ago and love reading them. These wonderful pearls of wisdom always make me think about life, humanity, religion, faith, God, the world, myself... They make me think about what truly matters in this life and in this world, about the difference between what is actually and truly important and what is only important because we (or the world) make it so. Your Daily Dose of Jewish Wisdom: A team, a society, a world is healthy when each member says, "If I don't add in my two bits, the whole system will fail." Not just any two bits, but the two bits that belong to you alone. No one is here just because everyone else is here. No system can function from the top-down alone. Because each of us—and everything that was created—has a spark of the Divine. So that each of us is all of us. A photo posted by Chabad.org (@chabadorg) on Mar 7, 2016 at 10:53am PST

While I usually really enjoy taking photos and sharing them, I've barely taken any photos at all the past few months. Sure, I've got plenty of excuses I can use. It's cold outside. I've been reading a lot. I haven't felt like taking photos. Editing my photos to hide the spots and scratches on my lens is a real pain. I've been experiencing a winter dip . All these excuses are true yet when I took my camera out for a play-date recently, I realised how much I'd missed scouting for shots with my trusty friend. It was fun to traipse through the mud trying to find the right angle or the so-called perfect shot and doing my best to showcase the beauty of my surroundings. It was good to remind myself that even though there are no roaring rivers or majestic mountains near where I live here in The Netherlands, it is still a beautiful country with a lot of charming and scenic locations. So... I've decided that it is most definitely a good thing to remind myself of...