Why?

This is pretty much exactly how I feel at the moment. I wish I could not pay attention and live in a bubble of not knowing or caring what is going on anywhere else in the world.  Is it useful …

Building with flowers

I spend a lot of time consuming media. I spend a lot of time reading about all of the terrible things happening in the world. And feel terrible that there is so little I can do. I spend a lot …

Happy First Anniversary :-)

 

Happy first anniversary to my friends Becky and Mike!  I can’t believe it’s already been a year since the wedding 🙂

 

Here’s a snapshot I took with my smartphone at the reception 🙂

2 Years Ago…

Happy Second Anniversary to my awesome friends Aaron and Cassie!!!

Photographing their wedding really got me back into photography, and I feel super lucky to have been there on their wedding day 🙂

Transmutability

 

The ability to turn light into dark.

Dark into light.

Creating something out of nothing.

Transform ugliness into beauty.

A view of the world through my eyes.

As a musician and artist, these things have remained constant in my life.

The only way I know how to deal with the darkness thrown at me is to convert it into light.

Using my voice and songs to create power out of my powerlessness.

Using my lens to show the beauty in others that they cannot see in themselves.

 

 

It doesn’t matter whether anyone else can hear it.

It doesn’t matter whether anyone else can see it.

 

When you CREATE, you have the power.

 

Conversation Hearts

Valentine’s Day is not my favorite holiday by any stretch of the imagination.

I never wanted to be the type of person who flaunted my happiness in my relationship as other people suffer or are lonely.  I always hated people like that when I was single!

Not to mention the corporate card and flower industries that lurk behind this insidious holiday!

The most interesting thing about Valentine’s Day to me (besides trying to make coherent thoughts from conversation hearts) are the valentines that people make.  My personal favorite are these Skyrim ones (as I am obsessed with Skyrim and a huge Elder Scrolls nerd):

http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/720609/skyrim-valentines-day-cards-warm-our-frigid-hearts/

I wish I would have thought of making these brilliant v-day cards!

Winter Dreams

Reflecting on the year. Good and bad… Suffering. Estrangement. Loved ones lost. The true friends that stand by your side through the bad times. Looking in the mirror and realizing that you are living a lie. Not knowing why you gave up, and picking yourself back up and trying again. The comfort of love. The lost years waiting. The loss of light… gaining insight. Finding the common threads that connect us all. Feeling lost and knowing that the answer was right there all along… Here’s hoping for a better future.