"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." -John Lennon.

©brokenimagery

Sometimes I forget things- which is odd, because much like the photos I capture, my memory stores events that be the stories of our lives like an album full of a lifetime that was documented with an old Pentax 35mm. Some images, dark, worn edges, distorted from the heat of being stored in warm climates whilst on travels and adventures- "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." -John Lennon.  And that couldn't be anymore on the dot...thanks Mr. Lennon.

We come back to them years later and realize what has transpired over time. We see the ways the we have grown as individuals, and we feel the distance that made its way into substantial relationships. 

I used to run myself- leaving behind not a trace of my existence. Like a dark shadow that was once visible, that was slowly carried out to sea with its mighty current. Tossed around in the crashing waves, landing on unknown grounds of a deserted island. Opportunities for new beginnings and personal growth. 

In conversation tonight with a couple of friends, the old saying, "Wherever you go, there you are" made its escape from a set of lips. I was eager to put forth my opinion. "Once upon a time that scared me" and it's true, it haunted me, and prevented me from looking in the mirror to see the good strength that I knew I had. "I find comfort in it now though" I said with assurance. Because to be honest, I do. There's something very peaceful about knowing that where you are, where life takes you, that you will always have someone there. And if we nurture ourselves with love, and the respect that we should, than that can be enough to fill your tank until you arrive at your destination. 


I don't know where I am going, as a person, or even as an "artist." What shall I find? Or more importantly, if I open myself up to new ideas, what will find me. My goal in life is to make a difference with the images that I capture. That if there is only one person out there that can look at something that I found through my little lens, and say "Wow, I totally get that" and if it touches their soul and provokes an emotion that only that image can provide, than I have done what it is that I set out to accomplish. In my writing this before my own eyes, I can openly say that if that one person ends up being me, than I am equally as satisfied. For the journey that I travel about with this thing called a camera, it is indeed the one thing that prevents my body from being whisked away with that current...


Being confused and lost is a natural and often felt emotion that many of us, if not all of us feel. We can share our experiences in many different forms...words...and embraces. I rest my head down tonight knowing that I am doing the best I can, and in that, living my life to the full extant, and honesty that I have always embraced. Cheers to living, through the good, and sometimes not so good times...that shadow doesn't have to remain there forever, when the time is right, we step from behind its curtain, and we face the world with the tools and gifts we are able to offer.