Softly, softly.
a walk
The last few years, I’ve been pretty heavy in artistic elements when it comes to my photography. When my family took a long walk this weekend, I wanted to do more of a documentary style. Meaning, shooting so that things look a bit more like what you would see ( with the exception of that black and white above, unless you see in black and white) on the street, looking around. So, these images might feel a bit boring, but I like ‘em.
your mind, ready
“What is one to do with such moments, such memories, but cherish them? Who knows what is beyond the known? And if you think that any day the secret of light might come, would you not keep the house of your mind ready? Would you not cleanse your study of all that is cheap, or trivial? Would you not live in continual hope, and pleasure, and excitement?”
― Mary Oliver, Winter Hours
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Feeling sentimental for the mountains this Monday, in the United States. No reason, just a place to land.
It’s Inauguration Day and Martin Luther King Jr Day. Many things for many people, all at once. Isn’t this the way life is, the ugly/beauty of fullness, both/and? I’m not too worried or caught up in what may or may not happen in the next four years. There are going to be so many distractions. Some of them well meaning others most definitely not. Both, keeping us from being effective in our discourse with each other..
The biggest thing any of us can hold to is this—that many people in the US are struggling, that kindness and conversation are key, and that this too will pass, just like it has before. Acknowledge change and hope simultaneously. Easy peasy, right? I wish. But when we’re at the bottom of a big bucket of feelings, we should seek out logic, seek out information. And, let’s remember these well known words:
“Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”
― Martin Luther King Jr
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Webs on a trail in Washington State