I am a teacher, writer, and musician who is very interested in photography.

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"I go out every day. When I get depressed at the office, I go out, and as soon as I’m on the street and see people, I feel better. But I never go out with a preconceived idea. I let the street speak to me."

~ Bill Cunningham

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"As for me, I see both the beauty and the dark side of things; the loveliness of cornfields and full sails, but the ruin as well. And I see them at the same time, at once ecstatic at the beauty of things, and chary of that ecstasy. The Japanese have a phrase for this dual perception: mono no aware. It means 'beauty tinged with sadness,' for there cannot be any real beauty without the indolic whiff of decay. For me, living is the same thing as dying, and loving is the same thing as losing, and this does not make me a madwoman; I believe it can make me better at living, and better at loving, and, just possibly, better at seeing."

~Mann, Sally (2015-05-12). Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs (pp. 414-415)

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“You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.” ~from Pontoon: A Lake Wobegon Novel by Garrison Keillor

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