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Ten Things I Learned This Year It is possible to employ empathy and compassion in the better building of a business. Another way to know this is to know that fear drives ruthlessness and knowing one’s self makes it impossible to … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, Aperture 3, Bend Light, D Lux 6, Leica, pumpkins, Toddler, Top 10 Lists, Winter, Writing
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Twenty6
Twenty6 A to Z. All of them. The letters in my words drift away, unmoored, torn away, taken down, by a rip current. I have twenty6 to work in to something to say, but they, like me, are em ty. … Continue reading
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Tagged Aperture 3, Bend Light, Black and White, Connecticut Shooting, Death, Hipstamatic, indoor, Mute, Nik, Poetry, Square, trees, Writing
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Doing Nothing To Get Somewhere
In an operation, sometimes, there are moments when I can’t turn back and I really can’t go forward. I have to wait and see. Doing more can be worse. Today, I used a surgical stapler to divide the blood supply … Continue reading
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Tagged Aperture 3, Bend Light, Black and White, D700, Do Nothing, Maui, Ocean, surgeon blog, Surgeon Memoir, Surgery, Waiting, Writing
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What Moves, Moves
What nature makes is better. The right angles that I focus on are not found in what flows easily, naturally. My mind finds the right angles, my heart, the flow. Simple as that. Or this… I can’t write about anything new. … Continue reading
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Tagged Aperture 3, Bend, Bend Light, Black and White, Hasselblad 500CM, Landscape, Long Exposure, nature, OR, outdoors, River, Sekonic 758, Snow, Square, water, Writing
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Home Is Anywhere
I am a guy in my head. Maybe you would call me Mr. Misery. Music is a way to find my heart – a long shot but reliable, oddly. I listen to music to see if the emotion can find a tie … Continue reading
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Tagged Bend, Bend Light, Black and White, D700, Elvis Costello, Enneagram Point 5, Hat Rack, Home Is Anywhere You Hang Your Head, McMennamins Bend OR, OR, Square, Writing
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The Feather of Maat
A heart heavy with things undone, with a life unlived is heavier than the feather and that heart goes back to try again. A life in which all I have is given away yields a heart lighter than the feather … Continue reading
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Tagged Aperture 3, Bend Light, Black and White, D700, Dreams, Feather of Maat, Indian Head Test Card, Michael Meade, Writing
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This Truck Is Moving
Someone will be president in two days. It will be B.H.O. I will bet anyone reading this $100. Bet soon. Pretty soon it will be too late. It might matter who is president. It might also be an outside issue, … Continue reading
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Tagged Aperture 3, Bend Light, D700, Don Miguel Ruiz, four agreements, Night, Nik, Nikon D700, surgeon blog, Surgeon Memoir, Truck
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Sun sets on the real world
Not sure if I have ever needed anything enough to know if I hoped for it for real. Something in me resists hope. Part of it is my personality – I can be, I am, fine with this little bit, less even, … Continue reading
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Tagged Aperture 3, Bend Light, Faith, Hope, Love, Nik, Nikon, Photography, Sidewalk, surgeon blog, surgeon memoirs, Writing
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Is Better Than
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Tagged Aperture 3, Bend Light, Black and White, children, D700, Haiku, Nik, Nikon, Surgeon Memoir, Writing
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For All Of Us…Goodnight
Pay attention. I am not going to waste space here:We look at one another waiting for one to change the other. We say to each other and we hear from professionals, that we attract the people who amplify our dark … Continue reading
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Tagged Aperture 3, Bend Light, Black and White, chicago, D700, Memoir, Nik, Nikon, outdoors, Street photography, Writing
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