In my work as a photographer I sometimes get seduced by wanting my photographs to be liked and to be judged as beautiful and meaningful by others. But lately I’ve been thinking about how pleasing others is a good way to lose myself. So I tell myself as I begin Read more…
I’ve spent the past week binge watching the Apple TV series, Ted Lasso. Sometimes I was laughing and crying during a single episode of this amazing comedy series. All in all I simply enjoyed the heck out of this irreverent series so full of heart and soul. I was truly Read more…
The trumpeter swan cygnets at Lake Camelot Park hatched yesterday. I went to the park without my camera yesterday (of course, just my luck) thinking that I wanted to walk around the entire lake. When I arrived at the park yesterday I saw a gathering of people on the boardwalk Read more…
I’ve learned a lot about life and its transience in this past year. And as I consider how quickly everything changes I’ve begun thinking a lot about Befriending Life, by simply being grateful, awake, and aware of moments and days of grace and beauty. That includes allowing myself to grieve Read more…
As I worked on trumpeter swan photos that I made this past week it struck me that many of the photos did not show off the grace that one expects from swans. In fact I began to wonder if the phrase Graceful as a Swan might be a bit of Read more…