How does it get any better than this?

This is an amazing young woman whom I met while

teaching "Light Writers", a program I started 6+ years ago, 

where I teach digital photography to

teens of all abilities.

She asked me to photograph her with her swimming gear.
She is a dedicated athlete 

and swims at the Special Olympics level.

She is also a prolific and very talented photographer.

I love my job and days like today! How does it get
any better than this and...
how did I get so lucky?

In all of us.

"A little while ago, not much more than a few days ago, I was a child who went about in a world of colors, of hard and tangible forms. Everything was mysterious and something was hidden, guessing what it was was a game for me. If you knew how terrible it is to know suddenly, as if a bolt of lightning elucidated the earth. Now I live in a painful planet, transparent as ice; but it is as if I had learned everything at once in seconds."

Letter from Frida to Alejandro Gómez Arias, (29 September 1926)

So excited

I can't wait for a project I'll be collaborating with the beautiful and talented Gloria, coming up soon.

Think braces, flowers, colors, Mexico, art, pain, creativity and so much more...

Expanding your comfort zone

I was just reading Derek Sivers's great blog, about pushing and expanding one's comfort zone. I really believe the more we do this, pushing our comfort zones, the more we'll experience life and real living.

So always ask yourselves : "What scares you now? What's intimidating? What's the great unknown?

and go for it. Enjoy your day!

91 years young, Betty White Quotes Prove Why America...

Can't get enough of the 91 year old Golden Girl

Betty White said "Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren't going to get rid of me that way."she told USA Today in 2010.

Top 10 Betty White Quotes:
1 "I may be a senior but so what? I'm still hot"
2."I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor"
3. "I'm blessed with good health and love what I do for a living. That's a good combination."
4. "I have a 2-story house and a bad memory, so I'm up and down those stairs all the time. That's my exercise."
5."I've always liked older men. They're just more attractive to me. Of course, at my age, there aren't that many left!"
6. "I really don't care with whom you sleep, I just care what kind of a decent human being you are."
7."Animal love that I am, a cougar I am not."
8. "Retirement is not a dirty word, I am just enjoying what I am doing."
9." I am 90 yrs. old and still able to work as much as I do. That's a privilege."
10." If one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble."