'It is not what you look at that matters. It's what you see.' – Henry David Thoreau
‘Come along, let’s do this’ – these words feature in the immensity that has been 2014. That there is room to help, here, or room to contribute there – the reality has been that others have had dreams to fulfill and realize, and, it would be wrong to not help others with skills, abilities and time if doing so could be managed. Francis Chan’s book ‘Crazy Love’ is about this dynamic. So, likewise, is Rick Warren’s ‘What On Earth Am I Here For?’ Both books have been the subject of small group study. The work of such work has often been about taking something a next step and to be consistent in offering others help with a next step. And, the real thing pulling forward has been seeing the value or function of a dream realized in another’s Life – what it means for them, what it allows them to do. Marko, down in El Tizate, Guatemala, captured the idea … ‘Be a blessing to these people.’ He wasn’t only talking about the people who live as squatters in the village of El Tizate; he was talking about blessing those who are around me daily. Much of the year has held a sense of being ‘time-starved’ … meaning that balance between endeavor and rest is absent – sacrifice is part of being a blessing to others.
In September, in early autumn, during moments away from endeavor, I took the following photos on a good long drive toward the Northwest Territories – a trapper’s shack along a trap line and a slough’s reflection.
Listening to – Chopin, 24 Preludes, Op 28 – 2 in A minor played by Rafal Blechacz.
Quote to Consider – “Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality, and of realism.” – Susan Sontag, ‘On Photography’
And all the life's delightful doses
A Blog about Music and Popular Culture
LYCKSALIGHET
The world around through my camera's lens
#poetry#poems
Pre Wedding Photographers India, Candid Photography Studio Delhi, Wedding Photography Delhi-NCR
travel junkie & horse lover
BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH
thoughts on innovation, startups, photography and bourbon since 2007
I make photographs and poems to please myself (and share them to please you).
Natural, rural and urban images
Surreal Landscapes by Maikhail Buzhinskiy
Exploring open roads without breaking the bank
Expeditions - explorations - adventures
'Why be reliant upon secular media sources, literary works penned by atheists, and embittered hearsay to inform your views on religiosity, or worse still to bring about the lack thereof, isn't that as sensible as asking directions to KFC from Ronald McDonald?' ―T. C. M
What I've always wanted
explore within
Born a Yaad | Adventuring Abroad™
He started Writing, The paper started speaking...
L'occhio ritaglia il soggetto, e l'apparecchio deve solo fare il suo lavoro, che consiste nell'imprimere sulla pellicola la decisione dell'occhio
Traveler & photographer with a passion for everything
Ein Tagebuch unserer Alltagsküche-Leicht zum Nachkochen
Peter Joseph Singhatey - "Just Love Flying"
GROUND OR AIR THERE IS NO STOPPING FOR US
Reblogged this on Lavender Turquois.