“Pride and Awareness” Erin, Edgar Weber and I (and anyone else who would like to join us) have formed a team to walk for the North Texas Walk for Lupus on March 30. Erin is ready to start soliciting sponsors. I’m proud to have her on my team every day!
“Never Too Old to Swing” Between this being a long teaching day for me followed by singing for the Ash Wednesday service tonight and then having choir rehearsal afterward, I did not even pick up my camera today. This is the first day of Capture Your 365 that I fell completely short. I knew it would happen. How fortuitous that this failing occurred on the first day of Lent – something else for which me to repent. I posted this…
“Inner Vision” Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn’t mean he lacks vision.” – Stevie Wonder Of all the senses, I’m not sure why I chose to photograph sight, the weakest of my own senses. I love food; taste would have been a fun capture. With all of the noise makers in my world – dogs, cats, music – hearing would have been easy. I thought about stopping at the store on my way home…
“Frozen in Time” Those in other parts of the world definitely had an advantage when it came to finding something frozen to photograph today. Last Tuesday we had snow on the ground; today it is sixty-five degrees and there is nothing frozen outside. Yesterday I discovered this snowman in our guest bath. I missed him when I packed away the Christmas decorations a few weeks ago. He represents a bit of Christmas frozen in time.
Though the Christmas decorations were all put away last weekend (except for the snowman that I noticed in the hall bathroom today), our Christmas vacation really didn’t end until today. Brooke left to go back to Chicago and Erin started back to school. It was really nice to have both girls here with us last night. Erin was a real trooper and spent the night with us so that she could get up at 5:15 to take Weber to the…
“What Do These Things Have In Common?” Today’s official prompt was ” a stranger’s smile.” As you can see, that is not what I photographed. Weber is having his first ever colonoscopy tomorrow. Thus, we were at home today. Everyone says that the prep is the worst part. So far, he says that it has not been too bad; he is about done drinking ‘that stuff” so the fact that he is doing this well is a good sign. The…
“Real Life Trash Collection” Today’s photo prompt was “real life.” That has so many possibilities! The other day when the prompt was “movement” and I had no idea where I was going with that, I was sitting at the dining room table drinking my morning coffee as the trash truck came. We had the last of our Christmas trash out so the pile was bigger than usual. I watched as the men tossed the boxes into the truck with…
“Words Not Required” Despite the fact fact that I am a musician by profession, I very rarely write about music here. I’m not really sure why that is. Perhaps it is because music is such a huge part of who I am that writing about it is like writing about stop signs or lane dividers on the road way; certainly every knows what it is and whit is here. That is probably a terribly naive and unrealistic perspective on my part….
So here we are, the beginning of another new year. January 1st brings with it that clean slate kind of feeling – like fresh sheets, an empty laundry basket, a newly weeded garden, a freshly fallen snow. Or, if you are a cat, a litter box that has been completely dumped and changed rather than just scooped. The obvious question here is, how do these feelings translate into a meaningful life during the rest of 2013? Like most of us, I could…
As I sit down to write this, I realize that there are no words powerful enough to describe the magnitude of grief that the families of those who lost loved ones in Newtown, Connecticut last Friday or those of us watching the continual news coverage are feeling. I have listened throughout the weekend as journalists have tried to find appropriate words as they speak to family and friends who are preparing to bury their sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews,…