taking my boys to the beach for a few days by myself before school starts next week.
like home cooking when you're hungry.
Aug 25, 2007 in 30 things, daily photos, double the trouble, panasonic lumix DMC-LX2 8 Comments Share 
Sean: "Mom, I'm the big brother, right?"
Mom: "well, you and Will were born on the same day. but you came out first."
Will: "yeah, I wanted some peace and quiet."
"in Japan there is an ancient tradition, called haibun, of writing journals combined with poetry and illustrations. sometimes, the pictures elicit the stories; sometimes it is the other way around. soon the stories annotating your photos create "moments of enlightened awareness". after a while you begin to have those moments more often.
the more you write it, the more you develop that mindset, and then you start seeing things to pay attention to around you that you might otherwise have missed."
- Henriette Anne Klauser on photojournalism, Put your heart on paper
Aug 15, 2007 in daily photos, just thinking, momster in Paris, panasonic lumix DMC-LX2 12 Comments Share 
taking my boys to the Jardin des Tuileries just before the sun sets, their delighted souls nestled next to my heart and the gentle summer breeze enveloping us. sometimes I forget. the simple, unabashed joy of life.
