Ever heard of photographic vision boards? I hadn’t either, so I invented them. Now others may have invented them as well–I don’t know. But I held an experimental vision board class, and here is one of the results: mine! We went out into the desert together, where we found a lot of water after all the recent rains. We took …
Plane Shadow
In the fall my husband Jon and I flew our Cessna 182 from Tucson to Taos to visit friends who have a wonderful mountain cabin. On the way, we saw fall leaves coming to their peak, almost as quickly as time lapse photography on the Discovery Channel. By the end of the long weekend when we returned, spots of gold …
From the balcony
OK, so actually this was taken from our Cessna 182. Which is a balcony of sorts. From the window of the airplane, I look down on the stage of life, where stories are being played out. I wonder who lives in that house? What is the red building and what goes on there? What dramas have been played out in …
Letting the love soak in
Sand Spirit Insight card #21 I love this card. Sometimes I see a parental figure whose head is the peachy-apricot color, just radiating love on to the smaller one being held. Other times I see the higher Self holding the smaller self, and the smaller self feeling so good, so protected, so seen and so loved. Today it’s all of …
What is it?
Is it a piece of crumpled paper? a well-worn piece of leather? Or an aerial photo of a river system? One of the things we can see from the air is the similarity between the surface of the earth and the surface of some of the smaller things we find on earth. Did you know, for instance, that the mathematical …
Winter Remembers the Spring
I walk out into the desert’s winter, watching for signs. The blonde brittle grasses part, giving me a glimpse of apple green beneath. The hard ground softens for ants wakening to build spring mounds. Black broken trees play dead, but tell me the sap is rising like warm honey in their limbs. The mountains’ sprinkling of sugar pours down into …
Your authentic voice
What if your true voice–the one that represents your deepest truth and your most spectacular gifts–sounded like this flower looks? I think it does. The question is, how do we remember how to bring out that true voice and give it to the world? After all, if we don’t, our deepest message–which is what Angeles Arrien calls our personal medicine–could …
Stalking beauty
As a photographer, I stalk light, but I also stalk color, form and everything that to me represents beauty. Sometimes that means looking past something that is at first glance ugly or ordinary to find a new element I hadn’t see before. That’s the reward: seeing something I hadn’t seen before. California is host to so many interesting plants, and …
Fuel for the Journey
What gives you fuel for your life journey? If you’ve seen my website, blog page and gallery, you already know that one source of fuel for me is photography. I love immersing myself in the study of light and the continuous discovery of how light reveals the ever-changing forms in nature. Looking at this agave plant makes me think of …
A Sand Spirit’s Healing Message
I’m continuing my experiment of asking a question about a personal issue of mine, and then thinking of a number between 1 and 36, since that’s how many Sand Spirit Insight cards there are in the set. Today I asked about my lingering laryngitis. What do I need to know or do to get completely well? Two numbers came to …
