this might be my favorite picture of them together.  ever.

it’s digital.  go figure.

I first remember seeing examples of  “painting with light” a few years ago and honestly?  I didn’t really get it.  When a very talented photographer I know recently shared some p.w.l photographs she had come upon, well…I was still not so excited about it.

BUT THEN she shared some of her own experiments with the process and I was smitten.  So on a recent trip I took the Holga and a giant yellow flashlight out on a cold, dark porch to see what I could come up with.

It was verrrry quiet.  And mysterious.  And only a few of the shots I took left anything on the film.  In other words:

I’m hooked.

(Note:  heading out into said darkness with funny taped together camera & a flashlight also really helps to reinforce that crazy brilliant artist image you are trying to project to your family.  Good stuff.)

This is why I believe that the ancient path of the goddess is still valid – in fact, essential – today.  Women need the archetypal image of a Divine Female.  We need to reconnect with the inherent sacredness of woman as creator and nourisher…

Layne Redmond – When the Drummers Were Women

But I am also telling you that if you risk the silence of meditation, the wizened old monk or nun will appear.  The wisdom source will be there in your willingness to be who you simply are when you are not trying so hard to be something else.

James Finley – Christian Meditation

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A little joke for this first day of 2010.

Q.  Why do cows lie down when it’s raining?

A.  To keep each udder dry.

(I do so love puns.)