I was more excited about our January cover stories than I have been about any story for quite some time — yes, even the Trinity story. I hope that our October feature about the river and road running through out levees was enlightening for neighbors, and hopefully helped them decide how to vote.
But a story about people who decided once and for all to follow their dreams and not look back, that’s the stuff that can change lives. My hope is that it encouraged a few people who had been peering over the precipice to jump off the cliff (in a good way, of course). Because the truth is, life is too short to not do what we love.
One of the subjects of the Lakewood/East Dallas story, Bob Munro, believes this so much that he even holds spiritual workshops in his photography studio to help people stop and take a long look at the world around them. "People need to realize they’re not in this alone. It’s looking at ways to help them slow down day to day," Munro says of the workshops. "Maybe taking a yoga class in the morning, stopping to hug your kid before they go to school — catch your breath and recharge the batteries even if for only 10 or 15 minutes. It’s looking at the future to see if you’re really on the right course of where you want to end up, and getting on the right course, whether that’s a job change or changing daily life."
