Yesterday’s snowflake reminded me of a Michael Longley poem called Snow Water. In the poem Longley, a “fastidious brewer of tea, a tea Connoiseur as well as a poet, ” asks the reader to bring him the gift of snow water to make his tea on his 60th birthday. You can listen to him read...
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…everyone could have a family photographer to cover moments like this or this or this for everyone to have on their desks to remember to seek out moments of sunlight and candlelight. My daughter pointed out to me this morning, “look Momma, snowflakes are in your coffee.” Because of her – and her ability to...
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This piece about young composer Gustavo Dudamel continues to inspire me.
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Thisyou just have to see.
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Music is of course from my favorite Beatle Paul McCartney from The White Album which everyone should own. Special thanks to this amazing family. I have so enjoyed documenting this sparkling little girl as she grows. I look forward to photographing her graduation! Many of my shoots are kept private and I always leave that...
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When I started this blog about 1 year ago on my 30th birthday, I was keeping a promise to myself to write more and trying to break the sometimes isolating experience of being a parent. I wanted to find and share creative endeavors that can get lost to sleep deprivation. This year, inspired by the...
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Thank you Trent from Pink Is The New Blog for this gem. God bless America that’s funny. I have sympathy for this woman. I really do. And good for her for being open about post partum depression and for being, I’m sure, a lovely human being. But she lost me though with the dolls. To...
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From the NYTimes weddings section on Sunday about the couple’s first date: “It was pouring when they left the club. Mr. Blangiardo offered to find Ms. Chu a cab, but she was more interested in his parked yellow BMW motorcycle. Unknown to him, she had a motorcycle license in California, where she lived before moving...
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Photojojo is a great resource. Yesterday, they posted about another blog 3191: A Year of Evenings that is so enchanting. Two friends now live 3191 miles apart, so every night, each friend takes a photo and they post them side-by-side in a shared blog. Check it out here 2.15.08.
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I love this short yet beautiful post by Molly Irwin about being a child in the neighborhood. It is perfect. It reminds me of that line in Stephen King’s Stand By Me:“I never had any friends later on in life like the ones I had when I was twelve…. does anyone?”
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