here are some old photos I took in early 2007...

on my Nikon EM

These were taken at the Washington State Capitol. I enjoy architecture...
looking at it, photographing it, drawing it.

And if you like Polaroids...google the poladroid. It's an app that makes
pseudo-polaroid pictures. You even get to 'shake' the picture while it develops! fun times.
Here's a sample with my niece...

merry christmas

Christmas is my favourite time of year. I love everything about it: the music, the decorations, the sounds and smells, the food, the snow,the generosity, the love, memories, family, friends, the presents, the excitement!

And I am fascinated by Charles Dickens right now. Charles Dickens is the bomb dot com [actually, .co.uk, but anyways]. One of his favorite pass times was to, through literature, light up the poor and marginalized, and gently throw the decadence of the 19th Century upper-class in their own faces; and he did it in such a gentlemanly way that most people don't realize, he was one of the greatest prophets of justice of these centuries.

This is my favorite quote from "A Christmas Carol," and a picture of my church building [thanks Ji Lee...hope you don't mind! jileemusic.com]

"But you were always a good man of business, Jacob," faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. "Business!" cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business. The common wellfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!"

Love your family and friends so much it hurts today.

preface

I've been reading some books recently. C.S. Lewis and Fyodor Dostoevsky are pretty much the men. Along with Robert Fergusson I'd have to say they're the kings of introductions.

And I'm not!

The 'start' is always said to be decisive in everything you do, but don't you always look back and wish you would have done it differently?
I've labored for several days over how to start this thing I wanted to start, and here are: the fruits of my labor. [dry humour, folks]

I'm making this space to inspire myself, and hopefully you can be inspired as well.
I'm a thinker and very introspective, so this is a visual space for design, photography, and thoughts that you are welcome to interact with.

In moments of creativity things come out of [seemingly] nowhere.
I don't know why I called this space what I did, but I think maybe it describes me.

Wherever you go, there you are. And you're a stranger, friend.