Category: photography

  • Eyes open, heart open Love more, fear less Listen deeply, speak bravely

  • Think big thoughts Relish small pleasures –H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  • So many foggy mornings this December. Fog always makes me think about how things are not always as they seem. How things that were clear just hours before can become fuzzy overnight, and also how truths that seem distant and unformed can become clear as the fog burns away in the bright glow of awareness.…

  • Pining. Wondering: where is home? What is home? Home is where you are safe. Home is the warm place. Home is where you do not feel afraid. (Maybe home can be anywhere?) Maybe home is the feeling of your baby falling asleep heavy in your arms, or the feeling implanted into your consciousness when you…

  • Longing

    Have you ever wanted to be inside and outside at once? Wished to be there and here? Missed what you have, while you still have it?

  • I’ve been drunk-binging on nature lately, pulled from my grind-screen work and what I ‘should’ be doing to spend hours just gazing at the wonders of the fall. I end up working way too late to compensate, but you can only see the foliage in the daylight. Such transformation is amazing. It gives me hope.…

  • Fog

    It’s like trying to describe why you love the way oatmeal looks. It’s gray, face it. It oozes. It’s not colorful but it sometimes hides sweet colorful things, like raspberries or bright green bits of a diced Granny Smith.

  • I woke to singing birds and rain

    I woke to singing birds and rain, the hum of the army of air conditioners outside my hotel window— I read one news article before my coffee and eggs about how songbirds in Singapore are endangered because they are being trapped and sold as pets thousands and thousands of them to people who live in…

  • The beautiful rowdy prisoners

    I heard voices, and not just the recorded ones in the audio headset. I also heard the voices of prisoners past and prisoners present, calling me to attention.

  • Apple Crisp Start with apples. The best thing is to pluck them heavy handful by heavy handful, from laden trees on a sunny day as the bees suck the sweet from the windfalls at your feet Otherwise, handpick them at the market – the farmer’s market, not the hypermarket. The apples need to be relaxed,…