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October 22, 2018
Monday, October 22, 2018 – Gentle Sunday Afternoon
Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow After church, and a bowl of vegetable soup accompanied by a few rounds of Mastermind, we grab our cameras and Maya, and head out to see what we can see. Our destination is a pretty little spot on the
October 21, 2018
Sunday, October 21, 2018 – Goal. Intention.
If you are God, your work is to create out of nothing. If you are not God, but like God—that is, if you are human—your work is to take what God has made and shape it and use it to make him look great. John Piper, Don’t Waste Your Life Goal and intention.
October 20, 2018
Saturday, October 20, 2018 – Three Gifts: Macro, Solitude, and Silence
But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths. Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet We decide to take advantage of another warm and sunny afternoon to clean out the front flowerbed. I take
October 19, 2018
Friday, October 19, 2018 – Autumn’s Finest
I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables It’s been a busy week, and Friday arrives gently, like a comfortable old friend. Gerry is going fishing this morning, and I’m going to pull out my camera. My kitchen windowsill is adorned with vases of
October 16, 2018
Tuesday, October 16, 2018 – The Gift of Grief
Occasionally, weep deeply over the life that you hoped would be. Grieve the losses. Feel the pain. Then wash your face, trust God, and embrace the life that he’s given you. John Piper I’ve shared these words here before, and when I came across them this morning they resonated again. They also paired with two
The real voyage of discovery consists of not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust By far, I shoot the majority of my photos with my 60mm macro lens. Once in a rare while, I pop on my “nifty fifty” 50mm lens but, for the types of images I like best,
I lift my eyes unto the hills Where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord The maker of Heaven and Earth Psalm 121:1,2 I’m joining in with a group of writers for Five Minute Friday where we’re given a prompt (this week it’s PRAISE) and write for five minutes about it. The
Reading well adds to our life—not in the way a tool from the hardware store adds to our life, for a tool does us no good once lost or broken, but in the way a friendship adds to our life, altering us forever. Karen Swallow Prior, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great
Nothing is so lovely as a quietly snoring dog and some evening Brahms, as you sit in a comfortably overstuffed chair with your feet on the footstool. Ann Beattie I tell myself to slow down and appreciate the now. Still, the cool and darkening days leave me with a desire to put up the new
