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friday’s featured resource – live, laugh, celebrate

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During yesterday’s festivities of doing a whole lot of what I should be doing more of…eating, laughing, strolling, chatting and even swinging I took a few minutes to honor the day to give thanks through my lens of what matters most. It was a delightful prompt from Kristin yesterday that helped keep me in the right state of mind.

It’s images like this that remind me to live, laugh, celebrate.

And Live, Laugh, Celebrate is exactly the title of the latest National Geographic book of photography. 

The new release is an extraordinary visual celebration of the human spirit, by legendary author Ferdinand Protzman that offers a radiant and compelling collection of celebrations from around the world that captures the miracle of human life and the bond between parents, families, and friends.  

Like love, the urge to celebrate is common to every culture around the globe. Live, Laugh, Celebrateoffers a fascinating array of shared moments of love and togetherness as it celebrates the lives of friends and families at play and at home.  Whether it’s a new baby, a first birthday, losing a tooth, a bar mitzvah, a quinceanera…a debutante ball, an evening at a night club, a wedding.  This beautiful book will make for a wonderful gift this upcoming holiday season and should hopefully inspire all mothers and parents to take photographs and capture images of their children, their families, their friends.  It is also a beautiful book to share with children, as it captures children from around the world in tender moments with their parents, friends, and each other. 

What better way to further celebrate our lives and what we are grateful for than a giveaway of this extraordinary visual journey of life?  Show us how you Live, Laugh, Celebrate between now and Sunday at midnight PST by leaving a comment here (and of course a link to an image is a bonus). We’ve got 3 books to giveaway which is 3 good reasons to celebrate together.

Comments

  8. It really is all about living, laughing and celebrating . . . during the holiday season and throughout the year.

    Thanks for the continued inspiration.

  15. As my kids got older, married and had their own kids, I found the holidays were stretched thin. So I invented MY holiday–Thankshallowmas. I decorate for Halloween, make Thanksgiving dinner and we exchange Christmas presents. It has become a true celebration–relaxed, happy and our own.

  16. I’m about to head out to yet another kids birthday party. Reading this is just what I needed to look forward to the event rather than bemoaning an afternoon with screaming kids hopped up on sugar. Now I’m going to bring along my camera to see if I can capture what we should all be there to celebrate.

    Thanks for changing my outlook today. This is perfect!!

  22. live, laugh, celebrate….

    after the most amazing thanksgiving dinner, somehow the kids were actually able to lay on their stomach’s and play battleship….that’s living !

    the youngest niece, who loves her older cousin so much, waited patiently for a ship to be sunk, so she could regain his whole attention….that made us laugh !

    and celebrate….well, that happens just because we were all able to be together for an entire day.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/29291473@N04/4142061565/

    {thanks for doing this give-away….it’s spectacular}

  23. Thank you for the wonderful inspiration and timely reminders – it really is all about living, laughing, celebrating – not just at this time of the year, but all year round.

  26. We try every day to laugh with each other and our kids. I try to laugh at work and make others laugh. We only have this one life and it would be a shame to spend it without joy and celebration!