October

Learning How You Learn

NOTE: I get that this is an oddly fringe post for me to share. But I’ve been pondering all this and if there is one person out there who might benefit from it, its will be worth while to share it. So, READ ON! A couple weeks ago I was sitting with a friend reviewing for a quiz just outside the lecture hall of the photography class I’m currently taking. We both knew the material well and were spouting off names and dates and significances of certain images, when a young girl in our class chimed in, “How do you remember all that stuff!” In that instant I remembered that when I was her age, I was just learning how […]

What is Your Relationship with Wild Places

I’ve been, again, pondering the concept of our relationship with wild places. I’m offering just a teaser here to help provoke some thought on your end. I’d love to hear what yours has been or what you wish it to be. Email or comment here or on FB as desired: Various relationships may come and go but those that are memorable or that we continue to nurture, may in part be the engagements in which we are free to roam without contingencies. Not just a freedom to literally move about as we wish, but outside encouragement for an unfettered roaming of the mind. An unsystematic perusal of one’s self. Yet I haven’t sorted out whether its possible for humans to […]

How I Came to Taking Pictures: The Unwanted Gift that Keeps on Giving

Several years ago when I tore my achilles tendon I was offered the most unwanted gift for a life-time athlete; the requirement to change up the speed with which I moved around on the planet. Upon initial acquisition of an athletic injury most of us are of course, blinded to seeing this gift because we are ensconced in denial, grief, anger or the self pity that our usual life speed may have to change up at all. But when we finally succumb to the excruciatingly patient task of tending to the healing of our body (so that we can get back up to speed), it is possible to catch a glimpse of the opportunity available to us during this undesired […]

Learning How You Learn

What is Your Relationship with Wild Places

How I Came to Taking Pictures: The Unwanted Gift that Keeps on Giving

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