Good morning to you too!

This is just what everyone loves to see in their inbox first thing in the morning:

"Yet another mom with a camera that thinks they can moonlight as a photographer without the proper education and real world experience. I hope you feel great about ruining peoples once in a life time events with badly exposed, out of focus, awfully composed images that were taken with some cheap camera. -Nancy"

I checked the email it was sent from, and it is from a local photographer here in my home town. Thanks for the support! Didn't you start somewhere too?  I can't imagine why someone would spend so much time, effort and energy to be so negative.  Don't they know that if they put out that kind of negativity into the world, no one is going to want to work with them?  Didn't their mama teach them that if you don't have something nice to say, just don't say it?

It made me think of this brilliant post I read last week by Natalie Norton.  The woman is inspired! I hope it makes you laugh like it did for me last week, and again today when I needed a reminder. :)

"Someone Will Always Hate You.
I'm convinced that someone will always hate you,
and that it shouldn't really matter.
I'm convinced that for every 100-200 people who love you,
there is at least 1 who just won't.
Maybe they just don't understand you.
Maybe they just don't believe in, or are threatened by,
the things you represent.
Maybe they are simply misguided.
Maybe they are just mean.
or selfish.
or just loudmouthed and insensitive.
Whatever it is . . . it really doesn't matter.
Someone always will:
misunderstand you,
neglect to appreciate your efforts,
have an opinion about the way you cho0se to live,
feel threatened by the things you represent,
or just plain HATE you
for one inexplicable reason or another.
But again, it doesn't really matter.
it really doesn't.
the thing I'm baffled by is this. . .
WHY do we (myself included) focus all our time and energy on the
ONE person that is giving us grief?
Why not the HUNDRED who love, support, celebrate and sustain us?
I'm convinced that someone will always hate you,
and that it shouldn't really matter.

_________________________

and in case you haven't heard it a while,

I want you to know. . .

I love you.

I think you're wonderful.

I appreciate your efforts.

I am cheering you on.

I am your number 1 fan.

I think you can, I think you can,

I.think.you.can.

In fact, I know you will.

mwa!

xx,

me"

Thanks Nat! You are oh so wise. 

p.s. I think you are friggin rad too! 

p.p.s. Thank you to everyone else who has shown nothin but love and support to me. I love you too!