a gratitude-focused blog
Posted in 9-5, Madison, Wisconsin, daily, gratitude lists, photos on Feb 22nd, 2008
Today, I am grateful to have so much (fun) work to do that I don’t have time to post a thoughtful gratitude today. Instead, a list… new haircut a dozen thank you letters from students at Viterbo for my lecture on Friendship visit to the State Capitol for photos a regular, well-paying freelancing gig (my [...]
Posted in 9-5, Education, Wisconsin, grant writing, writing on Feb 21st, 2008
This morning I did yet another grant writing seminar for an enthusiastic group. The difference today was that the audience was a third grade classroom! One of the teachers in the District is working with his class to submit an application for The Classroom of the Future contest and asked me to come explain the [...]
One of things I have always struggled with photography is feeling like an intruder into people’s lives and yet trying to remain outside the situation in order to capture it as is. I always wish I could just be invisible. I never understood how photojournalists who cover war can take pictures of the wounded instead [...]
Posted in Madison, Wisconsin, daily, photos on Feb 19th, 2008
As a matter of contrast to this morning’s international voting photos, I thought I would post a few from my polling place this afternoon. Olbrich Gardens. I love how the palm fronds make it look like we might live somewhere tropical (despite the winter gear on all the voters). I am grateful for the way [...]
Driving down Federal Hwy. 1 from Boca Raton to the airport, she surveys the hurricane damaged trees. Naked from the trunk up. Palms, without fronds, coming to a stump at top, the amputation of a surviving veteran. Banyans, whose roots grow from the top down, have been stripped of their roots and will have to [...]
What an exciting time to be alive – today is the first time I have voted in a Primary. For the first time, I feel strongly enough to care about who sits on the final ticket. Every election day, especially as I get older, I think of the images in the news depicting how hard [...]
An expression of gratitude for all that is good in my life.
