Yesterday, a kind voice, wiser than mine, reminded me I have been vacant here for too long.
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We find excuses for most neglect. In honesty, I have been beautifully overwhelmed... Editing for a new book. Researching a story held in the black hole of past Covid-travel restrictions. Creating a series of special events we will be announcing tomorrow. And, thinking.
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During this calming time, I returned to the archive. Today only halfway within. Meticulously going through every photograph I’ve made from eighteen stories for @natgeo. Learning from visual memory gave meaning to innumerable events of history. And I felt fatigued, knowing how today, I am more attentive.
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Sure, this photograph has its purpose - fishers resting at the close on that whole day of detangling nets. Only days after the Indonesian Ocean tsunami nearly erased all of Banda Aceh in Sumatra, Indonesia… they were grateful to have survived. Seventeen years later, there is more to express through internal meditation than seeing layer upon layer of visual pieces.
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It seems critical. This sensation often occurs by what I see within myself and in all forms of publishing today - including here on Instagram. Remembering how I felt a few months ago, a sensation of visual lyrical vacancy…we are barely nudging the vast possibilities inside ourselves.
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How do we liberate our ability to provoke critical exploration of continual challenging times, to rewrite, for the betterment of the future for our humanity, beyond the visually-repeating obvious?
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It is time to discover a new language of seeing the world through the immeasurable power within us.
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We need to go in, to go out.
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In honesty, I am sharing these words in vulnerable openness to myself.
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Welcoming being back with each of you ❤️
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When waking well before the sun appears, there is soft light. Barely perceptible yet clear. Leaves won't appear on trees for a few more weeks, nor streetlights along the quiet road of this old house that touches the Housatonic River. The light peeking over the curtain above my bed, when cleaning a dish in the kitchen, and after meditating. Before the earliest birds in New England begin to sing, these mornings of late winter are green.
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