A bag is a bag is a bag...


"Bags. Maybe it’s finally time for men to start carrying them. And not just to work. A bag to the coffee shop. To the bar. To the ballgame and the cage-fighting extravaganza and a bag to the monster truck show."
~Douglas J. Brown

File this post under "every day things." I've been a "bag guy" pretty much my entire life; I've carried some sort of bag since my teens. Be it a backpack, briefcase, shoulder bag, or camera bag, I often have one with me. I don't think much of it until every once in a while someone references it as a purse, or even worse, a "man-bag." To me it's just a bag. Anyhow, someone at a coffee shop this morning referred to it as such..."don't forget your man-bag." All I could do is smile. But then as I sat there I started thinking how it--and its contents--are really representative of me, or at least a slice of my daily life and things that interest me. One of the bags that I often carry these days is a small messenger bag which is designed specifically to hold a mirrorless camera (among other things), it's this one. And when I sat there looking at it, it really was like looking at a day in my life through it's contents, it contained the following...a camera, an extra lens, a journal, a pen and pencil for writing and drawing in the journal, a pocket-sized New Testament with psalms and proverbs, a slim book on mindfulness, an extra battery for the camera (wrapped in plastic), a culinary memoir, which I am reading for a class I am currently enrolled, and a rain pouch for the bag in the event weather turnes foul while on a bike. What's in your bag?

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