Poetry Afternoon

At first I was reading poetry, looking for inspiration for the title of a book that my class is collaborating on. Then I was just mesmerized by the pages of beautiful ideas and I lay back and read. Here is one poem I want to share that is especially beautiful.

I started again; where everything starts:
at the body. Classes in life-drawing,
training my hand to see.

In Paris alone,
my family waiting for me to give up
so I could go back to being "happy."

Every day, failure boiled up into my throat
and stayed there.

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Obsession is the sacrifice of light
to the richness of submergence.
But love is separation,
the membrane of the orange dividing itself,
the surface of silver
that turns glass into a mirror.

There's failure in every choice.

Art emerged from silence;
silence, from one's place in the world.

~Anne Michaels from "Modersohn - Becker"

Sailing

It's a beautiful thing.

Beautiful

I want my life to be a reflection of Christ, just like the murky water holds the beauty of the tree branches above.

Seize the Day - Remember the Dead

Fall is here

Fall is here! I went to a pumpkin patch today and enjoyed taking pictures. They are all locally grown. I opted out of getting one because they were a little more than I wanted to pay but it was so much fun.

Recent photographs

So, for class we have to take a photo a day and post it to an online photo album but since many of you probably aren't on that system, I decided to re-post some of them here. They aren't super amazing, just some stuff we have to do daily to "keep our hand in" as it were. Let me know what you think.

Tea Party

I am planning a tea party and so I got a few of my new tea cups out this morning and executed a photo shoot in my backyard. I plan on using some of these images in the invite in some way or another.