I would like to share with you how the title for my storybook and card deck revealed itself to me. The first story I wrote for the storybook was Mirrors from the Soul. It was just there and I needed to have a photo with this story. Most of the time I see something in nature and the words start humming through me. That is when I know I have to take a photo of what I see. When I am in awe with what I see on my computer screen I know it is a keeper. I then place the photo as a watermark in my document and by doing this I feel so connected to the image and to the words that are still humming. That is where the magic is happening, through connection, and that is when the words are coming onto the paper.
With the ‘Mirrors from the Soul’ story things were different. I felt the words humming and I just needed to start writing and that is what I did. This asked for a very special image and I suddenly knew which photo to look for. The photo below was taken in the last century even before there were digital cameras. So I had to digitalise this photo and there I had some help from my husband Albert. When I saw the result after editing the digitalised photo I was stunned and truly in awe. The photo was picture perfect for my story. So, this is it, I had my photo.
I thought I had the picture perfect photo for my story!
Story after story was written, photo after photo, and I ended up with 25 awe-inspiring stories and 25 enchanting cards. I still didn’t know the title for my book and I played with a lot them, with finding it. Until a very dear friend picked up the card of the ‘Mirrors from the Soul’ and asked what about this title? That is when I knew. I felt it in my whole body, this had to be the title. All the stories are a mirror from our soul, just like each and every card is.
And then there was some news I didn’t want to be true. There were some photos that couldn’t be used because of the resolution. It was so technical that I needed to dive into this and what I learned is that all photos for a book needed a minimum resolution. I was upset because I couldn’t use the picture from ‘Mirrors from the Soul’ and I was sad as well. I tried to change the resolution but the effect was terrible. So I had to say goodbye to this photo. I felt the resistance in myself, because I wanted to hold on to this photo. It took me a while before I found another photo for this story, and the feeling of being in awe. And I can reassure you, in the end I did find a picture perfect photo for this story.
This is the photo that didn’t make it to the book.
