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A Few Thoughts About Now

Peaceful Reflection On The Kanawha River 112420a — Hello Friends! Tonight’s Feature Image is titled “Peaceful Reflection On The Kanawha River 110420a” and is available for purchase by clicking the thumbnail and reaching out to me on the contact page

I haven’t stood in this spot since last May 2020. Or at least I think that’s when it was. I’ve not really had a reason to leave my mountain in quite a while. My hiatus from the outside world has deepened my appreciation for the natural calendar which is the observation of the changes in nature over the schedule set by Pope Gregory XII. If not for the needs of the industrial world I could easily toss out all the little boxes marked on paper with their neatly defined expectations revert back to the basics. What day is it? Today. What time is it? Now. That’s not to say that I’ve lost the appreciation for yesterday or that I shouldn’t make plans for tomorrow but that my appreciation for now is prevalent in my existence. Now time is a thing. It’s in the now where I control my eventual destiny. No human being can truly grasp tomorrow or hold onto yesterday. If I wait until tomorrow to do what needs to be done I find that it’s always just outside my grasp as yesterday slips through my fingers like the current of the river.

My final thought for tonight is that we need to reaffirm our cognizance for the moment because that’s where we live.

Good night friends and be blessed throughout your days.

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Collecting Moments And Learning To Appreciate Mistakes

Color Photography, wildlife

Hello Friends! Tonight’s feature image is titled “Suspended In September 91320” and is available for purchase by the instructions at the bottom of the article.

Life is a collection of consecutive moments that we forge into reality as they are given. We began creating our today from bits and pieces of all the previous yesterdays. Each moment is a patchwork of successes and mistakes that form the thread we weave tomorrow with. It’s not really matter of if we fail but when. More importantly is how we use that failure in creating our future. We can build a wall of mistakes that imprison our own spirits in an impenetrable fortress of “I Can’t” or, we can use those same errant blocks to build a stairway that takes us beyond our previous limits. It all depends on how you arrange your mistakes. Today I was looking through my archive for some specific images to present to a client as potential book covers and the deeper into the past I got the more I cringed at what I had chosen to archive. A lot of images were over processed and there was virtually no control over lighting. Some of the images had such a poor flow that it was hard to tell what the subject was. And yet the overall pattern shows that I have built on my mistakes by learning from them. And I am more than certain that there will be more building blocks in the future.

When I look at tonight’s feature image of the Snowberry Clearwing Moth feeding on the chicory bloom I see life in motion. A moment of time suspended that carries all my previous moments that built up to the point when my eye and lens moved in sync with the moments of the moth’s life. It is as much a collection of lessons learned as it is a collection of successes.

I suppose that in conclusion of tonight’s post I simply wanted to encourage you to never allow a failure to hold you back on anything you try. Life is an expiriment in trial and error and the errors are not a stopping point. They’re just a way to find what does work.

The Persistent Yesterday

black and white photography, Thoughts and Musing

Warm breezes caress my face as the marbled sky slips by above my little slice of Appalachia. I stand before the fading symbol of prosperity observing it’s slow descent into lower chamber of the hourglass. Beams and planks twist and bend as they’re pulled back to the ether. The breeze whispers it’s keening song in time with the rattle of the tin. The humid summer air carries the faintest of hints that at one time barrels of sweet grain and stacks of hay filled the dusty floor. The tools and trappings hang frozen on rusted nails awaiting a duty call that never came. Thorns reclaim what the plow forgot and the harvesters left to lie fallow.

The flower only fades away so that the seed may drop. In time new hands will clear the thorns that cling to broken and powdered beams. The sounds hammer saw will call forth a new work and the smell of freshly cut lumber will fill the air. The fallow earth will be fertilized by dreams and sweat and the will to thrive once more. And the persistence of yesterday shall be transformed into the reality of today.

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Transition 2020

Color Photography

New River Gorge Bridge 123119. — Hello friends! Tonight’s feature image is titled “New River Gorge Bridge 113119” and is available for purchase by the instructions at the bottom of the article.

As I look up to the engineering marvel that spans the canyon before me the cold winter wind nips at ears. The New River Gorge sleeps on gathering it’s strength for the oncoming Spring. Even the river seems particularly tranquil as the cold water slips by beneath the Tunney Hunsaker Bridge.

The significance of this place on this day isn’t lost in me. I stand in a place of transition on a day of transition.

As I said the other day I make no resolutions for New Year’s Day but instead will make small course corrections throughout the year. In 2019 I learned that transition itself is a lifelong process. As humans we are in a constant state of flux. We’re either moving closer to our goals or drifting away from them. If we wait for one day out of the year to maintain course we’ll spend our whole lives adrift.

What will 2020 hold for us? Whatever we make it into.

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A Few Thoughts On New Year’s Resolutions

Color Photography

Hello friends! Tonight’s feature image is titled “The Wishing Pool” and is available for purchase by the instructions at the bottom of the article.

I have stopped by the little pool at Glen Ferris as I often do. I only have a few minutes to catch a moment of peace. As I watched the water cascade down the rocks and collect in the little pool my mind begins to focus on the New Year and the tradition of making a resolution. You could almost draw a resolution out of a hat and it would mean as much. You see, most of the New Year’s resolutions are really just wishes.

I want be healthier.

I want to be more organized.

I want to learn something.

I want… fill in the blank. There’s plenty to choose from.

We do this as if New Year’s Day is some magical time that empowers you to achieve a goal guaranteed or you get a refund. But when you buy something with wishes then your refund is getting your wish back. I have come to the conclusion that a lot of these resolutions wishes are given to us by the expectations of others. Or more accurately, what we think other people expect from us. And if it’s not really something that we want for ourselves then we don’t really do the legwork. Or if we do then it’s only half hearted and it is never a priority.

After giving some of these things a little more thought I’ve decided that my New Year’s resolution this year be not waiting for the New Year to start working on the things that I want to change and to decide for myself what things I want to change in the first place.

Regardless of what the goals eventually turn out to be it should be something that is truly our goals so that we’ll be naturally motivated to make them happen. Anything else is just wishful thinking.

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