Perseverance IS a Lesson

Earlier today, I had the opportunity to discuss the topic of navigating when life throws you a curve ball. Perseverance was brought up. Hindsight offering a better perspective than the current reality could was also mentioned. For me, that’s what I call my learning “curve” in life.
If I look back on the moments in my [...]

Patterns and Circles

My Zen thought of the day:
10. Change

Life repeats itself mindlessly – unless you become mindful, it will go on repeating like a wheel. That’s why Buddhists call it the wheel of life and death, the wheel of time. It moves like a wheel:

birth is followed by death, death is followed by birth;
love is followed by [...]

Drink It All In

Did you say it?
‘I love you. I don’t ever want to live without you. You changed my life.’
Did you say it?
Make a plan. Set a goal. Work toward it…
but every now and then, look around;
Drink it in,  ’cause this is it.
It might all be gone tomorrow…
We spend our whole lives worrying about the future,
planning [...]

Photographs

When the image mirrors the man
And the man mirrors the subject
Something might take over
When you try to photograph something for what it is, you have to go out of yourself, out of your way, to understand the object, its facts and essence.
When you photograph things for what Else they are, the object goes out of [...]

Be Greater

“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love
and to be greater than our suffering.”

- Ben Okri