I looked out my window yesterday and I felt as though I had been given permission to breathe. I didn’t know I had been waiting for it. That is the alive part, the breathing, physically, spiritually – all of it. ♥ I let something go yesterday, one thing I’ve been trying and trying and trying [...]

It has been months since my last photo installment from L.L. Barkat’s book, God in the Yard. I suppose I got hung up on this chapter because I half-wanted to, didn’t really want to think about the idea L.L. approaches here, “self-care.” She writes, There were days when I would come to the woods and [...]

I wasn’t going to do it. Everybody in the wedding industry has been talking about this wedding for weeks. I have smiled and I’ve shaken my head, and I’ve even rolled my eyes a few times. But yesterday, it hit me that this might be the only time in my lifetime I will get to [...]

So… all the visual work I’ve been putting in recently caught up with me last week. On Monday, I noticed that my eyes were flashing around – everything was jumpy. By Friday, I couldn’t look to my right without feeling cross-eyed. I had to close one eye to see anything when I’d turn my head. [...]

Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or assuming it will define your days. – Caldwell I have known for a while that I don’t want to live my life the victim, but having been surrounded by pain coming from every direction, I’ve felt as [...]

A career in photography doesn’t always offer the glamorous ride into town with the crowd wildly cheering you on. Establishing a photography business can pick an artist up, turn you inside out and upside down and leave you wondering why you ever picked up a camera in the first place… I’m posting over at High [...]

I need new categories. “Fambly” is good. “A Restless Heart” is good. “Photography” is good. But they don’t cover all the aspects of the things I write. I think I could add “Writing” or “Observations”, and definitely I have room for “Randomnity.” Or I could just quit the whole thing altogether and stop trying to [...]