Be a One Word Photo Sleuth
{One Word 2023 May Linkup}
Link all of your One Word blog posts below. Share an update about your One Word in the comments.
Do you have a phone? Or a camera? Then you are equipped for this month’s One Word challenge!
Be a One Word photo sleuth. Look all around you for objects, people, places, etc. that remind you of your One Word. Snap a photo with your phone or camera. Include yourself in one of the photos if possible!
The more you look for your word, the more you’ll find it.
So this month, stay aware. And share. We’d love to see what you find.
If you blog, link a post below with ANY updates about your One Word, or link a post with photos about your word. You can also share updates with our One Word Facebook group or with our Instagram group @onewordcommunity.
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Here are five things I found last week with my One Word this year: HUMAN.
1. MY AND JEFF’S FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND (and please explain to me why the photo makes the footprints look more like a cast instead of an imprint!)
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2. MY NEW T-SHIRT!
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3. SEEN ON INSTAGRAM ON MOTHER’S DAY
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4. A QUOTE I READ
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5. ONE OF MY FAVORITE LITTLE HUMANS
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This May linkup for One Word updates will remain open for two weeks through midnight on Tuesday, June 6. Each link shared here will also be shared with our One Word Facebook group.
Next month’s One Word linkup will open on Friday, June 23 (every One Word linkup in 2023 will open on the 23rd).
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Where have you seen your One Word this month? We’d love to know!
Leave a comment here about your One Word.
Hmmm… I have never seen footprint photos do that!
And your tiny human is adorable.
Love that tshirt!
I was so surprised to see the footprints photo! I’m sure there’s some logical explanation; I guess I need to google it. lol.
love the tee shirt. Now that is a great way to celebrate our words for the year – make a tee shirt. I may have to do that.
I was so excited to find the t-shirt online! I’d love see you design a shirt with your phrase, Jean. It would be beautiful and meaningful.
Those footprints remind me of 3D photo effects. And love the t-shirt. A photo challenge is a great way to get us “looking” and reconnecting with our word this summer!
Yes, it always helps me “see” more when I’m looking for things to photograph. You know all about that since you’re an excellent photographer, Lynn!
I truly do love your t-shirt, Lisa. And your little guy? Let’s just say he steals the show!
It’s hard to photograph “mindful,” but maybe something will pop up.
Blessings!
Hmm…I agree that “mindful” may be a bitter harder to photograph. But something will come to “mind” I’m sure. lol. And yes, our little guy definitely steals the show. 🙂
Lisa, love all your pics! And, thanks for the creative ideas you share that help us look at our One Word in a different way!
It’s been so fun to me to see all the places and ways that our various words show up in the world. I love what you found for Prayer Warrior!
As usual, Miss Lisa, I love all you share, and I love that tee-shirt! Can’t believe you round it!! And your baby is sooo cute, a very cute little human, indeed! I had to have a C-section in the end (not fun), so whichever way we open up it’s not a picnic, but oh the rewards. Love my near 31-y-o human, our darling daughter Sheridan. She serves little humans teaching them art. I would NOT survive! 😉 Not finding FINISH really in photos (except maybe finish lines in races), but I’m reading about it (and need to be DOING it)! oh my! 🙂
Love you! Happy Memorial Day weekend.
xo
Lynn
Sheridan definitely sounds like an amazing human. Even though no person is ever “finished” as long as they’re still here, I’d say you could look at Sheridan as a beautiful finished product of your childraising years. 🙂
I love the human-ness in each photo.
I also enjoyed gathering photos for this month’s challenge!
I’m looking forward to what you come up with next month.
I always love reading (and seeing) your updates on Teach and Learn, Barb! Such an exciting year for you.
Such wonderful photos – great representations of your word human!
Thanks, Bev. Human has turned out to be such an easy word to find everywhere this year! 🙂
Love the T-shiirt, Lisa! I’m going to put my “word” on one of my author brand shirts!
That’s a great idea to put your word on an author brand shirt, Horace! I’m so glad you have another book in the world. 🙂
Love your photos Lisa! Imagine the footprints look so much more awesome than a boring photo would have displayed!! I especially loved the Tolstoy quote.
What a great challenge this month-I needed to get outside my head and experience more Hope. I loved it so much I’m adding a Hope photo scrapbook to my One Word fun this year, I can’t stop photographing Hope!
True, the crazy way the footprints turned out makes it even more special to look at. I’m like you…I need to get out of my head way more often, so looking for things I could see and touch was a great way to do that. How exciting that you’re adding a Hope photo scrapbook to your fun!
What a great challenge! I didn’t pick a word this year. But I love the idea.
Thanks, Heather. It’s been great fun to discover my One Word in different ways and places this year.
I loved every one of your photos!
Thanks, Joanne! I had a lot of fun uncovering Human in so many places (I had several photos I didn’t share too). 🙂
Love the Tolstoy quote! Footprints look cool. I thought they were casts.
The Tolstoy quote really resonated with me too. (Although to be fair, pet can appear to be empathetic to our pain at times too! lol)
I googled why the footprints looked like casts. And found it! It’s something to do with how our brains perceive the shadows, not the photo itself. So it’s all on us! ha.
What a fun assignment! I think it is so neat that your footprints look like casts instead.
Google told me that the footprints photo is purely an optical illusion. It reminds me of those photos where you can see either an old lady’s face or a young girl. ha.
What a great idea. I word this year is Joy, so it really shouldn’t be too hard to look around and find something that reminds me of that! Thanks for the reminder!
Linking up a great review/author interview of a favorite new WWII novel, if interested!
Elena
Oh, yes, you could have a really easy time finding images of Joy all around you, Elena! That’s a fun one too.
Great idea, Lisa! It’s interesting that the footprints in the sand would look like casts.
Yes, I found the footprints so odd. I know I’ve taken footprint photos in the sand before and not had that happen! lol
I am alway a month behind in posting about your challenges, but I so enjoy them!
No time limit on any of it, Lauren! I have a headstart so that’s the only reason mine appear to be “on time.” ha.
This was a fun prompt. I love your pictures. And ouch–10 cm dilated!
Yes, seeing 10cm like that really makes me hurt all over again! ha.