Lens Artists Challenge #365 | Longing

As I am reading about the challenge I am sitting beneath tall beautiful trees, listening to the crows and nature all around us as we are camping in the woods.

Egídio introduced the theme for the week with some incredible landscape photos with a variety of locations and colour’s. Such beautiful colour’s captured.

For this challenge Egidio introduces us to the Portuguese word saudade. Wikipedia defines saudade as “an emotional state of melancholic or profoundly nostalgic longing for a beloved yet absent someone or something. It is a recollection of feelings, experiences, places, or events, often elusive, that cause a sense of separation from the exciting, pleasant, or joyous sensations they once caused.“

The closest English word to describe saudade is longing.

Its our first weekend of camping and we are loving it! A beautiful quiet campground that isn’t far from the water. With water being so calming to me, this has been like another reset. A shift from our norm.

A longing for recreating my morning, with a focus on me, which is exactly what I did this morning. I meditated and did an eft tapping exercise.

Longing to hold onto the long summer days, the outside activities, sunshine, warmth, outdoor cooking and deck life!

The Bruce Trail in Hope Bay

A longing for Peace… a longing for tranquility. Truthfully the 2020 years have been quite stressful, at times extremely stressful. 2025 was to be a year of healing, in a sense it is, that is pulling me deeper, its essential I am hearing. Longing to be heard, truly heard by my heart, truly heard by my soul. And honoring that.

A longing of trusting… prayers and trust!

That sometimes in life we need to reach, we need to stretch ourselves. It can feel awkward, even unstable, but can also end up beautiful.

Now, what are you longing for? If you join the challenge, don’t forget to use the “lens-artists” hashtag so we can easily find your post in the Reader. If you would like more information on the Lens-Artists Challenge check that out here!