Category: Photographs

Between Stories

Last week­end I went on a hike up near Mt. Rainier here in Wash­ing­ton State. I head­ed for a fire look­out built in the 1930’s, no longer in for­mal use, but a good des­ti­na­tion for a clear sum­mer day. After an hour or so, I round­ed a cor­ner in the trail and looked for­ward across… Con­tin­ue read­ing Between Sto­ries

What do I want?

What do I want? That’s almost as pow­er­ful a ques­tion as “Who am I?” For when we don’t express what we want in a true and heart-felt way — first and fore­most to our­selves — we lose a vital part of our joy in being exact­ly who we are. Iron­i­cal­ly, in a soci­ety that over-val­ues indi­vid­u­al­ism,… Con­tin­ue read­ing What do I want?

The Sea

Recent­ly I was in Puer­to Rico for a cou­ple of weeks. It is a mag­i­cal and beau­ti­ful place. This is my favorite pho­to­graph of the trip, tak­en near Rin­con on the west­ern end of the island. Click it for a larg­er ren­di­tion. You might won­der how this image could be a favorite — it is… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Sea

In the Mountains

My two most pre­ferred intel­li­gences, accord­ing to Howard Gard­ner’s mod­el, are intrap­er­son­al (self-reflec­­tive inner search) and nat­u­ral­is­tic (appre­ci­a­tion and learn­ing from nat­ur­al forms). This means that when I want or need to think in cre­ative ways, I like to look for wis­dom both through my inner expe­ri­ences and in places of out­ward nat­ur­al beau­ty. This… Con­tin­ue read­ing In the Mountains