words for you...

Why does the water lust for the shoreline

a violent soft love

deep & timeless as a universe

I can understand so little

no end

comprehend no beginning

all is beyond my capacity

of all I have learned to learn

only

we go on, each of us,

as fierce as the last and neighboring wave

our passions hold the height of surf

of dreams extend into the risk of our abilities

knowing, unknowing - all of this will diverge into an infinite flatness

part of a scape we cannot see 

do you exist while I am not with you?

This momentum of time, the womb of connectivity

only to be brawn back into the lust of return.

Words for you...

Close your eyes and see the spotted sky 

and know that your breath is not in your

mouth, but in your head, find something

in the knowledge this is possible, know 

this, and know that that which keeps you

afloat can also crush you & your mind's 

breath - but only for a moment. You can

equip yourself, you can not let fear be 

your frequent guest...

with your eyes closed focus on the 

mind breath.

Images for you...

My goodness I am IN LOVE with the work of Amy Finkelstein.  Like melting memories, cities or bodies.... or are they forming?

 "...Photographs now seem as abundant as words, taken in as a grammar or code. My work has become a sort of code, or formal system in my mind: reducing infinite subject-hood to simple planes of matter to be photographed and perceived. I am intrigued by the impulse to comprehend and read this language, and am informed by the context and image body we bring with us to any one photographic object or lens based gesture. Considering all we bring, I tend to eliminate much, reducing the photogenic possibilities down to a blank sheet of drafting film, ink, and a discipline with analog photography. From this place of uncertainty comes some sort of measurable mark. The camera takes it, and we take the image. For my thinking, the process is no longer about specific idea or creative gesture, but about certain distances of form and media yielding to potential."

Warmth for you...

I really love my job.  I get to share moments with people at they are most happiest, most loved, most giving love, most beautiful, most honest, most vulnerable.  This morning I had the privilege to shoot an elopement at City Hall and it was just perfectly lovely.

Anyway, have the most perfect weekend.  I am looking forward to the snow, inside looking out.
Please warm your heart with the most perfect ad in history...

Singer Mara Carlyle, song "Pianni"

Inspiration for you...

"PEOPLE ARE AFRAID TO PURSUE THEIR MOST IMPORTANT DREAMS, BECAUSE THEY FEEL THAT THEY DON’T DESERVE THEM, OR THAT THEY’LL BE UNABLE TO ACHIEVE THEM. WE, THEIR HEARTS, BECOME FEARFUL JUST THINKING OF LOVED ONES WHO GO AWAY FOREVER, OR OF MOMENTS THAT COULD OF BEEN GOOD BUT WEREN’T, OR OF TREASURES THAT MIGHT OF BEEN FOUND BUT WERE FOREVER HIDDEN IN THE SANDS. BECAUSE, WHEN THESE THINGS HAPPEN, WE SUFFER TERRIBLY. 

WE, PEOPLE’S HEARTS, SELDOM SAY MUCH ABOUT THOSE TREASURES, BECAUSE PEOPLE NO LONGER WANT TO SEARCH FOR THEM. WE SPEAK OF THEM ONLY TO CHILDREN. LATER, WE SIMPLY LET LIFE PROCEED, IN ITS OWN DIRECTION, TOWARD ITS OWN FATE. BUT, UNFORTUNATELY, VERY FEW FOLLOW THE PATH LAID OUT FOR THEM — THE PATH TO THEIR PERSONAL LEGEND, AND TO HAPPINESS. MOST PEOPLE SEE THE WORLD AS A THREATENING PLACE, AND, BECAUSE THEY DO, THE WORLD TURNS OUT, INDEED, TO BE A THREATENING PLACE. 

SO, WE, THEIR HEARTS, SPEAK MORE AND MORE SOFTLY. WE NEVER STOP SPEAKING OUT, BUT WE BEGIN TO HOPE THAT OUR WORDS WON’T BE HEARD: WE DON’T WANT PEOPLE TO SUFFER BECAUSE THEY DON’T FOLLOW THEIR HEARTS." PAULO COELHO

Fashion for you

In the meantime an interesting piece on how a little something has been lost for all in today's world of over saturated fashion photography.

Oh hello again...

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It's been oh so long.  I recently looked back at the work I did with LowtideHIGHTIDE and felt I missed myself. As if I was an outsider looking in, or I was not myself.  A teacher once told me about writing, write it for you, if you are interested in what you write have faith others will be.

It seems in order to be inspired sometimes we have to act, we have to find the inspirations - they do not move by our eyes and whiplash us into creativity. We have to sit and think within our thoughts.  The days can pass over us so smoothly, and like a rock to water, we can become soft to it's time and lie there forever until we are a tiny speck of sand. The same particle, but smaller, beaten down by our own choices.

But I choose to reactivate into the world and again sit with my thought.  Here is where visions and beauty are birthed.

Clothes for you...

LOVE!!!  Thanks, you can mail it to my office.

Words for you...

“This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be a long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time.” 

- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

Objects for you...

Question. Is it fo paux for a woman to buy herself a nice ring?  Can't I commit to ME! Just because it's a diamond, doesn't mean I cant have it and love it. Perhaps every woman should go out there and get herself a nice piece of jewelry for herself....

Rings from the beautiful Catbird.

lowtidehightide...

in the darkness I can see your yellow
it is a hope for a new evening

single span.... 
a continuum 

marked by creations 

I try to be reflective of this color

this color into a feeling

think this feeling into a shape

and this shape into words my language gives meaning to...

Everything must be understood.

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Colors for you...

Just because !

(via)

Have a beautiful weekend...

Be whoever you want to be this weekend and forever...

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Words for you...

“Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure.They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful.” David Lynch, Catching the Big Fish 

(so good ps!)

tears for you...

Have any of you seen this video?  I sat down about a week ago and watched the whole thing and was so moved by this story...  Jill Brzezinski-Conley learned she had breast cancer a day before her 32nd birthday. She underwent a double mastectomy, and then, at 35, found out she has incurable stage 4 bone cancer.... and this film was made and an experience had.

Watch it.

There is one moment where she has this thought, a challenge of sorts for Victoria's Secret to use a survivor of breast cancer in their magazine.  How amazing and powerful and inspirational would that be to all women?!

object for you...

I love these handmade flowers and bouquets by Francis & Frances.  Such vibrant color that will last!

song for you...

lowtidehightide...

Let me in to your color
the motion is so much more inviting than the spring
waiting for the eternity of seasons
to have faith in the waining
is such a task

let me in to your color
so I can be in the movement of the spring
and be taken away in the synthetic nature of this thisness
and ignore the falling of my flowers

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art for you...

Misato Suzuki

have a sweet weekend...

How lovely are these cupcakes?  Who wants to give them a try?  Have a sweet weekend.


Bisou Bisou!