it is a sunny day with white puffy clouds….late afternoon light, people are smiling…i am getting pictures…..the neighborhood could be called tough by some, but everything seems to be fine….the gang from compton in east los angeles wants a group shot….ok, perfect…can do….no problem….suddenly, out from absolutely nowhere, comes a tech 9 assault gun….expressions change …
i should be packed , but i am not packed, and i will not be packed before i "crash" tonight…i have a mid-day flight to korea, so i will get up very early and in one hour do what i have not done in ten hours today….some things never change….and i am guessing no more …
william had it right …"parting" really really is "such sweet sorrow"…it just kills me every time to say goodbye to someone i care about…and i probably do that more than i do almost anything else….we all do…i had to do it today..i waved my youngest son and his wife out of sight in the new …
in a possibly weak and exhausted moment i wrote the "rawhide" piece below this evening…i am travel weary …. but a bit earlier, i did check the comments under the "beach bum" story, and i did write something there which i hope you will take the time to read… i would have posted it as …
ever think much about rawhide?? me neither….at least not until i shared a taxi with a Norwegian rawhide entrepreneur… this was after our plane, half full of Mormon missionaries from salt lake city, was diverted to dallas after first being diverted to tulsa because of severe storms…. and this was soon to be my second …
it happens every time…..that is, every time i go to the beach to relax …after two weeks or so of t-shirts and barefeet and jealously watching pelicans magic flight as they skim the faces of the waves, i always make the "decision" to "give it all up" and move to the beach…. after all, my …
oh, that empty feeling…..a blank slate…..past accomplishments are but a background blur….new commission, new assignment…..it is always "a mountain to climb" to even get to this state of "nothingness"…the state of being you are in when you actually get a "commission" and then…and then…and then…now what do i do??? the old adage "sometimes you get …
now is the time……i just sense it…..the most amazing summer storm is just rolling through right now 6:30am my time….inspirational!! great light , but the whole family is asleep , so i was forced to shoot one of my rare "landscapes"…but, it is not the storm that i am talking about.. everything in life is …
this afternoon i had a "crazy" idea….i get crazy ideas sometimes…spontaneous…ideas for me come from being happy and "playful" or they can come from being "down"….this one comes from the afternoon sun streaming through the window and lighting up the room….good light..happy…great light…. i am chatting with some friends and i literally jump up in …
i will fly back to new york tomorrow and will almost immediately launch into a very heavy schedule of beach vacation with my family…so, for two weeks my friends, i think it fair to say that there will be fewer postings here…. for one thing, i cannot imagine there would be of much interest to …
