“If you don’t like something, change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.” -Mary Engelbreit- journal entry: When I first spread out everything I had to put into scrapbooks it was as if the universe had crashed on my table. I had five piles …
“Time in minutes slips away. First the hour and then the day. Small the daily loss appears, ’till it soon amounts to years.” -Inscription Indianapolis Public Library- journal entry: A 12×12 calendar format is a VERY easy way to keep a journal without a lot of fuss. This is what …
“One kind word can warm three winter months.” -Japanese Proverb- journal entry: GREAT! WOW! AWESOME! I said one kind word each of three ways. Does that mean that I can warm nine months? Add this to my list of favorite photographs. It was a perfect day for winter things. I …
“Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.” -Kenyan Proverb- journal entry: Oh, how I treasure photographs of generations working together. It looked to me, when I took this picture, that these two were working together. I wonder what is going on behind them? Why do they each need a bucket of …
“We go where we need to go and then try to figure out what we’re doing there.” -Jeff Greenwald- journal entry: Oh, how I love photographs which tell a story. Not faces. Not poses. Not new clothes. Just ordinary moments. It was Christmas. Santa brought skis. This little guy had …
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grown up.” -Pablo Piccaso- journal entry: How many fathers spread out a mess like this in their living room? Her father did. He didn’t just give her a sketch book and a pencil . . …
“I once tried standing on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.” -Xun Zi- journal entry: It was the highest climbing wall I had ever seen. Smack dab in the middle of the …
“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson journal entry: It was only sunscreen. But the photograph flew at me as if it had wings. No matter that the sunscreen is a little thick. Does anyone mind? …
“Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.” -Gail Buckley- journal entry: When taking family pictures I prefer the sneaky kind. If no one knows I am watching them, they won’t smile funny. If these three generations were lined …
“Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.” -Pearl S. Buck- journal entry: Well, I’m amused how many fun tags I have but you might be shocked. I must be older than you are. Over time I have come to love one …
