Where does your joy come from?
How do you protect it?
Do you have a regular connection to it?
Can you access it easily?

I’m not talking about fleeting pleasures or the thrill of short-lived excitement. I mean the kind of joy that’s deeply rooted, built on appreciation, awareness, and inner satisfaction.

The damn dandelions are back, multiplying en masse across the entire yard, hiding from the lawn mower, pulled out only to return fivefold the next week.

At a sweat lodge ceremony a few years ago, I was given a ritual to conduct on my property and told, “The land will start speaking to you. Just watch.” And it truly did.

I was really into reading about plant consciousness at the time and would look up the spiritual symbolism and medicinal properties of every plant that popped up. It’s been said that nature provides the remedy.

Being self-employed is no cake walk. Yes it has many, many perks (no Sunday Scaries) but it also means seeing through your own bullshit and calling yourself out. Recognizing your personal patterns and how it affects your business.

This lichen, or forest seaweed as I like to call it, was attached to a tree and only measured a few inches. I didn’t even notice this tiny bug until I uploaded the images. Entirely other worlds exist when you slow down and use a new lens. Both in photography and life.

“Why don’t you just fucking let go already“ death says to me daily. I’m not wishing for the end or terminally ill, that Im aware of. But death has been a theme since the breathwork session. Unexpectedly showing up in the integration process, death’s favorite way to show up. Mrs. Death Misses Death, the book I read last week and coincidentally bought a month prior, discusses Mrs. Death as a person so strangely familiar. Someone we’ve known all our lives. Highly recommend it, so brilliantly written.

Photography has allowed me to see the things that sometimes disappear. When we stop paying attention to the beautiful minutia in the rush of daily living. I imagine life used to be slower at one time, but now it’s up to us to focus our attention and choose #slowliving. My camera helps me to do this.

If I’ve learned anything in the 10 years Ive been designing logos, it’s that nobody cares about your logo. Hard stop. What matters and what makes people care, is what you do, how well and why you do it.

When I returned to Instagram a few weeks ago after a major hiatus, I came with intentions of taking a fully curated and strategic approach, just as I do for my clients. I’ve been saying my website is under contruction for far too long, and truthfully it’s always evolving. The cobbler’s kids have no shoes.

For a long time I struggled with being a business. Being a business has been the biggest learning curve as we’re not taught that component in art school. Then became this conflict of presenting myself as a company ‘we’ when it was and always has been just me. “We’re now offering X.” Isn’t it enough to struggle with the duality of the self and the ego, let’s add a solitary we? 🤯😂😅