“Blur”
Heard County, Georgia – 31 March 2013
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Nearly Wordless Wednesday: 4/10/13
LaGrange, Georgia—8 November 2012
Thank you, Dr. King
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
15 January 1929 – 4 April 1968
A lucky surprise
Carrollton, Georgia—14 November 2012
Contemplative Photography: 20 Shots
This post’s photos are inspired by an exercise from Contemplative Photography: Seeing the World with Fresh Eyes by Andy Wood and Michael Karr. Many books discuss the technical issues of taking great pictures, but this book is one of the few I’ve read so far that explains how (and why!) to see.
One Friday this past September, I was driving across town when I came to a railroad crossing blocked by this train just parked on the tracks. “Argh! Now I have to turn around and—hey, wait a second…” This was a great opportunity to slow down my racing mind and take a few contemplative photos. No, the universe didn’t “have it in for me,” not at all. Here was an unexpected opportunity to see beauty in the everyday, the mundane. In other words, it was a blessing.
While the results aren’t strictly by the rules set forth in the book’s “20 Shots” exercise, I still enjoyed the time I spent letting my “thinking mind” relax and my “seeing mind” have some fun. Continue reading
Wishing you a joyous and peaceful 2013
LaGrange, Georgia—31 December 2012
Christmas Past & Present
Mom wears the Christmas dress she just finished sewing for herself
Battle Creek, Michigan—24 December 1969
My Christmas jacket, formerly known as Mom’s Christmas dress
Heard County, Georgia—25 December 2012
Nearly Wordless Wednesday: 12/19/12
LaGrange, Georgia—8 March 2012
(Many thanks to Brent & Becky’s Bulbs for their help in identifying this variety of daffodil as ‘Flower Record.’)
Editing is like…
And if you’ve ever smelled a pig barn that needs cleaning, you know why regular shoveling is so important.
It’s the same thing with editing. Okay, so the poop is metaphorical. Still, editing is vital no matter the document or purpose—tech docs, fiction, poetry, college essays, whatever. Step away for a while, even if it’s just an hour. Then come back, pick up your shovel, and get busy. That includes you, too, Perfect and Incredibly Inspired Writer of Masterpieces. Your work usually needs editing worse than anyone else’s.
(Many thanks to the lovely and talented @amandaccarlson for this pearl of wisdom!)
Happy Labor Day
Happy Labor Day to those of you celebrating today. I hope you’re fortunate enough to have the day off.
In honor of the working people who keep America moving, here’s a classic:
Thanks, Merle!
So many workers make our lives easier, better, possible. Dana Velden of TheKitchn notes the interconnectedness of all our lives, especially when it comes to food:
Consider the people who pay for and maintain roads and stop signs and lights that assure that your onion will arrive safely to the warehouse or the market. And at the market, the people who haul the boxes that your onion is in and the people who pull your onion from the box and place it on display and people who take your money at the register and maybe even the person (getting rarer but still possible) that packs your onion into your reusable tote bag and helps you haul it out to your car. The people who clean and maintain the market, and the people who work at the electrical plant that lights the market and cools the refrigerators, and the people who take the money at the bank so that the manager can pay the electricity bill.
You get the picture, right? That if you were to follow the concentric circles of people and their work out from your beautiful onion sitting on your beautiful cutting board, you will find a vast and complex system of people and their work, seen and unseen, acknowledged and unacknowledged, but without whom your life would be miserable, if not impossible. Innumerable labors bring us our food.
Read the rest of this excellent article here.