Following the dusty farm road I listen to the blackbirds’ song With wisdom well beyond my own They sing as though The world today Is the same as yesterday Is the same as every day before Because it is Life goes on
perspective
Collecting memories.
I take photos to help me remember the individual moments. The ones I want to last, and experience more fully. Photos are one of the ways I collect memories. I had company with me on this trip to the dunes. My two favorite people in the world. I took photos of them too, as we played in the sand, and I know just where they were outside the frame of this shot. It was a great day… How do you collect memories?
Live a great story.
My story isn’t a grand novel, with perfectly phrased prose, penned on gilded pages. It’s an album of short, messy, episodic vignettes. Doodles sketched in the margins. Sunsets and butterflies and bubbles on a windy day. Football and baseball games with nachos and popcorn. Brief moments, special people, and little things that make me laugh… And this is one such story. This weekend, one of my favorite people referred to me as a “Tree Huggin’ Nature Nerd” or “THNN” [pronounced TH-N-N]. I’m a happy person, it’s not hard to make me smile, but in that moment, this little moniker made me grin like the Cheshire Cat, ear to ear. It’s so perfect and true. So when I got home, I designed a sticker. That one, up there. ^ I love the natural world. Plants, animals, deserts, oceans, mountains, even creepy crawly things as long as they are doin’ their thing […]