A collection of personal writings and photography including reflections on life, feelings, ideas and the little things. Nature, coffee, road trips, family, capturing light, and finding joy and peace and beauty in the world.

Nostalgia

nostaligia: a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one’s life, to one’s home or homeland, or to one’s family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time I’ve been seeking photography that feels like home, like the photographs taken when I […]

Little Wings

hope comes with little wings… Today I hung fairy lights around my window. I walked in the last of the Autumn sun. I watched nature twist and turn through its seasons. I captured the light through a lens and drank hot tea while I edited. The world goes on, even without us in it. I’ve […]

Creativity Through Challenge

The world has changed. It sounds dramatic – the kind of situation you would normally encounter in a fantasy movie or dystopian novel. Empty streets as people withdraw into their homes. Empty supermarket shelves as panic takes over and survival instinct kicks in. Uncertainty. Fear. It’s all here and it’s on a level that most […]

Lessons On Slowing Down

It’s a Saturday morning and I have a to-do list as long as my arm, so long in fact that I’ve had to write it all down to reassure myself I won’t forget any of it if I don’t keep churning it over and over in my head. I’ve divided it into sections, created subtasks […]