A Holiday Gift from Me to You
The year 2025 has been a difficult one for many in our community. I have spent most of the year asking the question “What can I, or any ordinary person, do during times such as these?” While the answer continues to unfold, I have found that living in that question calls up my innate desire to contribute and be of service to my fellow man. (Right now, that’s you!)
I am a lover of the written word, with its ability to lift our spirits and inspire our actions. With that in mind, here a few of my unpublished photographs with a few thoughts from others whose mastery of the English language eclipses my own. I hope the modest contribution I have made through my 50 years behind the camera and in the darkroom may help manifest the love we share for life and living during this Holiday Season.
Sending all my best to you and yours!
Sunrise, Upper Crystal Springs Reservoir
There is no first or last in Forever. It is Centre, there, all the time . . .
-Emily Dickenson
Square Parallelepiped
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to happen.
-Sharon Begley
Cloud Dance
Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days; days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.
-John Muir
Djerassi Sunburst
I had a moment of clarity, saw the feeling in the heart of things, and walked out to the garden crying.
-Allen Ginsberg
Dandelion
In the bigger scheme of things, the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that is a whole different thing.
-Lucille Clifton
Fallen Feathers
Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.
-Gretel Ehrlich
Lilies in Bloom
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God’s business.
-Michael J. Fox
Platonic Solids
“The idea says get in the car! Don’t worry, I’m driving. Sometimes I’m riding shotgun, sometimes I’m in the trunk. The idea always takes you where you want to go!”
-Dave Chappelle
Electric Snow
“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.”
—Hamilton Wright Mabie
Desert Holiday
Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight for freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life’s light to be determined by the darkness around me.
-Sojourner Truth
