Friendship and the Serious Introvert
This post is a feature article in this month’s Be Zine. To view the entire blogazine, click HERE. I had all but disqualified myself from writing about Friendship this month. “I have no friends,” I...
View ArticleHappy Centennial + 8, Girl Scouts of America!
On March 12, 1912, Juliette Low founded the Girl Scouts of America with a troop of 18 girls in Savannah, Georgia. I became a Brownie Girl Scout on Jan. 21, 1970. My mother was already a leader with...
View ArticleAlice Through My Lens
(Reblogging from 2012. Today would be Alice’s 61st birthday, but she will be forever 20 years old.) Blue eyes. That was one thing that made her unique among 4 sisters. She had our father’s eyes....
View ArticleLens-Artists Photo Challenge: Communication
“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky Author Terry Tempest Williams spoke at the Madison Public Library a couple of years ago....
View ArticleLens-Artists Photo Challenge: Found in the Neighborhood
“It’s a beautiful day in this neighborhood, A beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine? Could you be mine? It’s a neighborly day in this beauty wood, A neighborly day for a beauty, Would you be...
View ArticleNew Year’s Eve
Reblogged from 2011 and dedicated to my Mom, born this day in 1934 and transitioned from this life on October 22, 2020. The social tradition in this country is to spend New Year’s Eve with the person...
View ArticleLens-Artists Photo Challenge: Emotions
“Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson Patti, this week’s host, writes, “Show us portraits or street photography that captures people’s feelings, such as happiness,...
View ArticleLens-Artists Photo Challenge: Close and Closer
“Let each dawn find us courageous, brought closer, heeding the lights before the fight is over.” ― Amanda Gorman This photo challenge is about moving closer to the subject and letting it fill the...
View ArticleLens-Artists Photo Challenge: Alone Time
I absolutely love this photo challenge from Ann-Christine, and I admire her beautiful post giving us a glimpse into the outer world she’s created to express and host her inner world. I deeply resonate...
View ArticleLens-Artists Photo Challenge: Time
Time in a Bottle– Jim Croce If I could save time in a bottleThe first thing that I’d like to doIs to save every day ’til eternity passes awayJust to spend them with you If I could make days last...
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