Can Do
We cannot choose what happens to us, but we CAN choose how to respond. Like many people, Alzheimer’s happened to our family. I chose to respond by photographing a flower a day. Maria Shriver chose to found the Women’s…
Care
Practice, Practice, Practice
A pedestrian on 57th Street sees a musician getting out of a cab and asks, “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?” Without pause, the artist replies wearily, “Practice, practice, practice.” How true that old joke is, and how…
Monarch Moments and More
Flowers for Mother’s Day
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Have you ever planted lantana and watched it grow and flow over the border of your flower bed? When I began photographing a flower a day on August 2, 2016, I never dreamed the project would still be going at…
Becoming Real
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According to the Velveteen Rabbit, “Real isn’t how you are made… it’s a thing that happens to you.” Perhaps a photographer’s project becomes real when she puts down the camera and agrees to be interviewed on the other side of…
All I Really Need to Know I Learned Through Flowers
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Gardeners
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“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” Marcel Proust November is National Family Caregivers Month, a time to recognize and thank those who do so much within…
An Anniversary
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In 525,600 minutes, how do you measure a year in the life? That is the question asked in the song Seasons of Love from the musical Rent. Love was their answer, and one with which I absolutely agree. As a…