"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power." —Alan Cohen
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Craven Art /
On Saturday I shot a wonderful Denver-based artist who hired me to take some portraits of her in her studio. Angela Craven is a beautiful, funny, and interesting abstract painter in her free time and a software designer m-f to pay the bills. And I am exceedingly jealous of her studio space. A big open sunroom that's gorgeous, bright and open. I've never been hired for a shoot of this kind so I was really excited to do it and I'm thrilled with the results.
Read MoreMi Corazón Está Roto /
"I never thought this would be me...on this side of a situation like this. But life always goes on, doesn't it? In spite of loss, heartbreak, sweeping realizations. The wind keeps blowing, the rain keeps falling, the sun keeps rising. Eat, sleep, move, live. Do."
Read More1,000 Days /
"Whatever has to be done for you to be at peace, is what I'm willing to do. If that means going another thousand days without you, so be it." —M.O.
Read MoreWith Another /
"I couldn't tell you how or when it happened exactly but I've recently fallen in love with another man."
Read MoreLove Hurts /
“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.” ―Jim Morrison
Read MoreA Child is Momentous /
"Making the decision to have a child is momentous.It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body." —Elizabeth Stone
Read MoreWithout Hearing /
"Did you know your brain can actually start to FORGET what certain words are supposed to sound like?...If you go long enough without hearing them, I mean."
Read More30 /
"I don't feel ready to be 30. I hardly feel old enough to be older than 25.
Possibly I'm scared that the only thing I've ever had going for me was youth."
Just Scared /
"Sometimes I worry that I posses my mom's overwhelming power of denial.
Or wonder if I'm just, at my core, a subconscious optimist.
But I suppose I'm most worried that I'm just scared."
Read MoreHeartbreaking and Beautiful /
"Because it will be heartbreaking and beautiful and inspiring. Because we are amazing together. And because we are family. If anything right now, family is what I need the most." —Cassie Dixon
Read MoreSo Damn Still /
"I think I'm stewing in negativity these days. I'm floundering. I'm aimless. I'm restless. I'm so damn still. I'm hopeless. I'm just looking for something."
Read MoreThe Pale Blue Dot /
I'm not sure why I'm posting it here. Something about it resonated with me. I feel such sadness over it. I'm reminded of my dad, of Adam. Either of them could have written this comment. Though I'm mostly thankful for it, I sometimes resent that I've spent my entire life surrounded by people who can't take their eyes off the bigger picture, even just long enough to appreciate the smaller one - just for a moment.
Read MorePampered Kids /
"I think to some extent all men in our society are allowed to be pampered kids a lot longer than women. They get to throw temper tantrums and go from the bosom of their mother to the bosom of their wife." —Tamara Linse
Read MoreA Good Person in the World /
The world must’ve seemed such a hostile place. It’s no wonder he could barely contain his rage and he tried all the ways he knew how to escape. Gosh, it’s amazing he held it together as much as he did. Yet you see him in photos and he was such a handsome vibrant person. My mom said that he had such potential, creative and artistic and otherwise. I remember him as having such a sense of humor, such a wry wit.
But what it all did to you.
Read MoreGlamorous and Romantic People /
I remember when your dad and mom came up. I was fairly young. Oh, I thought they were the most glamorous and romantic people! Of course I knew Clay a little growing up (more on that later) but your mom. Wow. I thought she was the most gorgeous person! She had the most beautiful black/dark brown hair, and one time she got it highlighted with blue! I found that fabulous and shocking. And her accent – with a slight lisp, if I remember right. Even then I felt sorry for them, though, because Clay had never fit at the ranch and here he was with his new bride.
Read MoreMoon (this is where I am these days) /
"The Moon is a white strange world, great, white, soft-seeming globe in the night sky, and what she actually communicates to me across space I shall never fully know. But the Moon that pulls the tides, and the Moon that controls the menstrual periods of women, and the Moon that touches the lunatics, she is not the mere dead lump of the astronomist. . . . When we describe the Moon as dead, we are describing the deadness in ourselves. When we find space so hideously void, we are describing our own unbearable emptiness." —D.H. Lawrence
Read MoreBe More Loving /
"My mom called me this morning 'just to say hi and tell you I love you.' What? I asked her if everything was ok. She said of course...she'd just made a New Year's resolution to 'be more loving.'"
Read MoreHappy Halloween /
“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow, and I am in them, and that is eternity.” —Edvard Munch
Read MoreYou Should Date An Illiterate Girl /
"Date a girl who doesn’t read. Find her in the weary squalor of a Midwestern bar. Find her in the smoke, drunken sweat, and varicolored light of an upscale nightclub. Wherever you find her, find her smiling. Make sure that it lingers when the people that are talking to her look away. Engage her with unsentimental trivialities. Use pick-up lines and laugh inwardly. Take her outside when the night overstays its welcome. Ignore the palpable weight of fatigue. Kiss her in the rain under the weak glow of a streetlamp because you’ve seen it in film. Remark at its lack of significance. Take her to your apartment. Dispatch with making love. Fuck her." —Charles Warnke
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