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Creating a Photo Shoot Part 1
Before a single photo is taken, there’s that first conversation of an idea—the story you want to tell. So you begin by asking yourself: What is the story I’m trying to…
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How Do We Enjoy the Daily Feast
Why does the bounty in front of me feel heavy?Why do I taste gratitude and guilt with every bite? Because when I look toward Palestine,I see a world split in…
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Autumn on the Table
The hands of harvest- The afternoon settled around the table piece by piece, without asking for attention. Its small treasures gathered from a slow wandering—peach warm to the touch, a…
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What Does a French Chicken Pen Look Like?
On my daughter’s property there are a few old sheds, and they’ve decided to convert one of them into a chicken pen. From the photo, you can see it needs…
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Homesickness
When you live far from where you began, the heart stretches, learns new rhythms, rarely stops reaching across oceans and time zones. There’s always someone missing from the room, always…
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11 November
They left their youth for the hope of something they didn’t understand but believed Their names are carved in stone, -their bodies and blood fed our fields. The wind carries…
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A Sneaky Persimmon
This afternoon I wandered out to my friends’ olive orchard, where one sunburst persimmon tree—heavy with golden fruit—stood like a jeweled guest among the silver leaves. Arnelle had just cut…
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Learning from the Master
It looks like a lesson in making cookies, yet it is something older—how care becomes action, how time teaches through hands. My granddaughter follows, not knowing she is tracing a…
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