when summer lingers...

she said to me that sometimes she would silently just take it all in, so that when the day is hard she is able to escape to the place in her mind where summer lingers still...

need a change?

how about rewriting the script? go on, you know that you want to.

{read}

i could get lost in a book. i take forever to read a book that i am enjoying because i mark the margins, underline key phrases, ask questions and pen them down. books change my life because they change my thinking. what are you reading at the moment?

that shadow of yours

that shadow of yours seems to have become my own. i am enjoying the company.

life distills into this

all of life distills into the mundane acts. waking, eating, sleeping, cleaning. if i can do these simple acts of life with vigour and joy, then i have known the application of love to a life.

single bloom

there are interruptions, many calibrations that unsettle and distract. i remember talking to a wise and very busy man. he said to me that he found that he accepted activities, found himself saying yes and then he reached a point where the yes became a no and the acceptance became refusal. this happened in cycles and he believed it to be healthy. i am left wondering though if this is not a seesaw life that leaves the heart somehow crowded or in need. can a middle road be found, where the inner life is just right? could i find a place where i am able to be a single bloom in germination, then in bud and then in full bloom?

i mentioned a few posts back that i had a photography exhibition coming up. it is something that i am really excited about because it is a project that i would like to see grow into something much bigger than what it has started out as. the exhibition started last week friday in letterkenny, the town where we live in ireland. all profit will go to a number of different charities that support the education and upliftment of children who are disadvantaged. the group of charities has not been finalised yet as i am still speaking to various groups of people. my next step is to not only exhibit but also auction the work so that more funds can be raised. i would like to see this project grow by having many photographers join in and more charities and educational funds supported. so if you are interested, please send me a mail and let me know what your ideas are. i look forward to hearing from you.

"taste and see"

dad taught me to always try all food before saying that i did not like it. he loved figs but it was the one fruit that i simply refused to try. a few weeks ago i bit into a fig for the first time ever. it was delicious. i have been feasting on them ever since...

she asked, she responded (for Bev)

"wonder where the world's clouds gather today?"

"wherever i am unwilling to be the sheep that is found"

"wherever i choose to see more tares than wheat"

"wherever my anchor is anything but Solid Rock"

woman,

... you are beautiful in an innocently mature way.

please take a minute to enjoy the first part of my french collection over at story of a boy and a girl. i also have exciting news about an upcoming photography exhibition that i will be sharing with you soon. in case you think i have forgotten all of you, i will be spending time catching up with all of you on sunday. i have really missed all of your photos and words.

empty but full

i find that it is only when i empty myself that i am able to be filled. the emptying process though is one that i cannot complete. it is from without that i am emptied and filled again.




i have been away for a while. i will be posting my france photos over at story of a boy and girl later this week. please do go and take a look. i wish that each of you could have been there, right alongside me, as i was cycling through the vineyards with the scent of fermentation and ripe grapes while the sun shone brightly on my bare shoulders. i felt alive. truly alive, and it was because i emptied myself and allowed the moment to fill me. have you experienced such a moment?