Words Like Leaves

Three hours of color. I left the house about 11:00, restless, with no appointments for the day until 7:00 p.m., at which time I'd head up to UW to shoot a couple of short scenes for a film being produced by a friend of a friend.   I get nervous about such things, so I needed …

Everything’s A Photo Waiting To Be Taken…

So I got an invitation from my daughter to do a "365" project.   What's that, I said?  Well, it's an online project where you post a photograph a day, joining a community of pretty talented (make that "really, amazingly talented") photographers just practicing the craft, having a great time blowing each others' minds with these …

Thoughtful Creatives, Resonance, and Hospitality

This past weekend was a game-changer. At the end of a pretty bumpy road just outside of Cle Elum sits a place called Chalet Talley, and there I spent a couple of days in the company of dear friends I'd never met before.    It began with a ninety minute ride from Seattle with a …

Sacred vs. Secular

Here's a question...help me out here:  we use the terms "sacred" and "secular" to categorize certain events, phenomenon, and experiences.   Skipping the obvious, that these can be helpful categories in distinguishing various lens' by which we see the world, how do you define, and differentiate between, "sacred" and "secular"?  Are they helpful distinctions, or should …

Connections

This has tremendous implications for any organization out trying to do good in the world. (Not to mention weight gain and loss.)  Part of me wants to say, "Duh," but on the other hand, there is something profound about the way the material is presented.  My favorite metaphor is the graphite vs. diamond illustration.  It's …