The most sacred place dwells within our heart, where dreams are born and secrets sleep. A mystical refuge of darkness and light, fear and conquest, adventure and discovery, challenge and transformation. Our heart speaks for our soul every moment while we are alive. Listen. . . as the whispering beat repeats: Be-gin, Be-gin, Be-gin. . […]

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 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 […]

“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 […]

“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film, is captured forever. . . it remembers little things long after you have forgotten everything.”  –Aaron Siskind     Recently I was at a get-together with some friends and the topic of photography came up. I was asked why […]

One day at a time – this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful it will be worth remembering. Happiness is a journey, just […]

    “The most sacred place dwells within our heart, where dreams are born and secrets sleep. A mystical refuge of darkness and light, fear and conquest, adventure and discovery, challenge and transformation.  Our heart speaks for our soul every moment while we are alive. Listen. . . as the whispering drumbeat repeats. . . […]