If you do not walk with the animals, you will not know them –  And what you do not know, you will fear – And what you fear, you will destroy. –Chief Dan George, Tsleil Waututh Nation   Last weekend I attended the annual fundraiser and training event at The Nokota Preserve, Chester Springs. Frank […]

What is Life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of the buffalo in the winter. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass, and loses itself in the sunset.  — Chief Crowfoot, Siksika First Nation     As I sit here looking out at the […]

“There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life. There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that mine. Oh traveler, if you are in search of that, Don’t look outside – look inside yourself and seek that.” –Rumi   This past weekend I photographed someone I’ve known many years. I […]

There is nothing more important than knowing your soul and living the truth it speaks. –Alan Cohen It feels so good to be back! The year brought some difficult challenges to me but I can finally see blue skies ahead. I weathered the storms that came to me and pushed through them. I learned that […]

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is rapture in the lonely shore, There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea and music in its roar; I love not man less, But nature more.  –Lord Byron     After enjoying a wonderful Christmas with my family, 2019 kicked off with some […]

“You can love her with everything you have and she still won’t belong to you. She will run wild with you, beside you with every step, but let me tell you something about women who run with wolves. . . their fierce hearts don’t settle between walls and their instinct is stronger than upbringing.  Love […]

“Children’s Song” We live in our own world, A world that is too small For you to stoop and enter Even on hands and knees, The adult subterfuge. And though you probe and pry With analytic eye, And eavesdrop all our talk With an amused look, You cannot find the centre Where we dance, where […]

“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.” –Josh Billings “Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.” –Roger Caras     Happy Thanksgiving! I have many things in this life to be thankful for. We all have struggles and pain, but if […]

“I do believe in an everyday sort of magic – the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like. The eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity;  the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we are alone.” –Charles de Lint       I can spend hours sitting […]

  There is no place you can go to hide from the thoughts you keep contemplating  over and over inside your mind. There is no place you can venture where your true emotions will be concealed and the secrets of your heart will not show. There is no place in this whole wide world you […]