Breathe

 Some days I get through by focusing on the things I need to do.  Some days I find myself counting down the hours into minutes.  Seconds become eternity.  Sometimes I can actually feel that space in between.  That's when I have to stop and breathe and look around me. And I know there's a whole world out there.  There's life beyond my front door, beyond my little existence. 

 There are children playing.

And old folks are dosing.

Young girls are going to proms

Young men are chasing young ladies.

We are all moving to our own rhythms

Some go off to foreign lands

Some reach for the sky

We are constantly trying to build

and expand

and take from the land

We need to stop

look around and breathe

just breathe.

Remember the sacrifices that were made for us

And appreciate the world around us.

It really is beautiful.



My youngest son is married.  Has been for almost two years.  He and his lovely wife are trying hard to build a life for themselves.  She's a teacher and he's a pharmacy tech.  So far there aren't any children, just Carl the cat.  But they had dreams of going to Africa to 'build' schools, clinics and churches.  To 'build' communities.   My hope is that they will still be able to do that eventually. 

Dreams are like hope--they keep you going and give you something to aim for. 



Dreams inspire music, poetry, literature and art.



They feed the soul and allow the mind to escape an often harsh world.

Dreams inspire people to be better and to make a better world.

In the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson, "It's alright to build castles in the sky.  Now put foundations under them."



And in case you wondered my dream is to travel and photograph the world and feed the people in it.

In the beginning...

  ...there was light.  And it was good.  Although some days it's not so good.  Then I have to use the flash.  Sometimes it's too much and I need a diffuser.  But regardless of what I use I'm rarely ever deterred.  It is such a great big world out there and I want to get as much of it as I can.  I want to eat it all.  So, welcome to my world.  And the light...it is good.

Be it morning light...

day light...

 night light...

or street light!

Through a window...

or through the trees

light is all around us, through us and in us.

So shine my friends, shine!