Some of What’s Different
Our Neighborhood We walk to friends’ houses to play. We no longer walk to the ravine, or the lookout. I drive on the freeway way more than I ever have the whole time I’ve lived in Seattle (since 1992!). I think about the river. I see the ocean. The park we play it is at [...]
Till the water is clear
When the inspiration struck me to write about the lessons my children have taught me, it was the middle of the night. I scrambled around for a piece of paper and at least a dozen ideas, one sentence each, came tumbling out. One of them was “how to take responsibility for my own experience,” and [...]
Soul Seeing
Again, I had an instant inspiration for what I wanted to photograph when I read the self-portrait prompt at Shakti Mama…. The prompt is eyes, and I wanted to take a picture of myself in namaste — the gesture of your two hands in front of you, greeting another person. A gesture that I once [...]
Eye Contact
I saw someone’s post about The Mask self-portait series and I immediately knew what I wanted to take a picture of. I went downstairs, grabbed the camera and starting taking pictures of myself. I still had on the apron I wore while cooking dinner. I didn’t look in the mirror beforehand. I aimed the camera [...]
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