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Challenges

Keep Me From Throwing Up This Christmas!

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If I hear the ubiquitous December greeting one more time this week, I think I’ll puke.  In the halls at my son’s school.  In the coffee shop.  In the library.  In front of the mailboxes.  At church.  In the grocery store.  You know what it is.  I’m willing to bet you’ve said it.
“How’s your Christmas [...]

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What do you see when you back up?

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There are certain things best seen from a distance.  Large things.  The Grand Canyon.  The Golden Gate Bridge.  The New York City skyline.  Without distance, pieces are all you can take in.  This is a massive Christmas tree at Opryland Hotel.  There’s a beautiful view of it from an overlook and as you look from [...]

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How Thankful Will You Be Tomorrow?

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Today is Thanksgiving and like many people, one of the things I am most thankful for is the life of my son.  I don’t often post family images on this blog, but I feel strongly that it’s important to build a thankful heart into ourselves and our children…all year round.  Celebrating the reasons we have [...]

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It Ain’t Your Mama’s Poster

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Do you remember that 80’s “Hang In There” poster of the kitty gripping the branch?  Probably dates me.  Very pre-lolcats.  This shot reminds me of that poster, but updated for today.  Our world isn’t static. It’s changing at breakneck speed all around us.
What do you have your arms wrapped around?  Is it able to support [...]

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Are You Living From a Lawn Chair?

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It’s a big, wide world out there.  Really big!  There are fields to explore, treasures to find beneath your feet, trees to climb, both close, dark passages and light-filled open places.  There’s underbrush to pick your way through (trying to avoid thorns) and wide gravel paths to follow.  There are trees and hills beyond your [...]

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How Locked Are Your Doors?

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This is an image taken some time ago on Beale Street in Memphis.  I ran across it late tonight scrounging around in some old archives instead of doing what normal I’ve-been-sick-all-week people do in the middle of the night.  They sleep.  I think about writing.  There should probably be a blogging rule about writing in [...]

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Not Only Do You Need a Scarecrow; You Need A Scary One.

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The Betelgeuse of the 1988 film was more humorously disgusting than frightening, but this scarecrow re-creation was fairly fearsome.  It was the one scarecrow of the afternoon at Cheekwood that creeped out my young son, (though, in all fairness, that’s really not such a difficult feat).  I wrote my last post about the importance of [...]

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Do You Need A Scarecrow? I’ll Bet You Do!

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Wikipedia defines a scarecrow as, “a device – traditionally a human figure or mannequin dressed in old clothes – placed in fields by farmers to discourage birds such as crows from disturbing and feeding on recently cast seed and growing crops.”  Crows high-tail it out of town each Fall when Cheekwood fills up its grounds [...]

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What Does Your Ideal Life Look Like? Do You Know?

After struggling to find anything to say last night because I couldn’t put my finger on what was bothering me, I woke up this morning thinking more clearly (as if that’s any surprise).  I think I dreamt about comfort zones all night.  I was going to wake up and write some more thoughts, but Adrian [...]

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Cameras and Comfort Zones

I have a love/hate relationship with my tripod.  I’m supposed to love it.  I’ve been trained in its advantages.  If I don’t love it I’m at least supposed to use it anyway.  But I hate it.  I’m not sure what that says about my personality, but I do try.  I start out using it.  I [...]

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