Tag: photography
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In the Environment: Weddings and Wolfpacks
At the beginning of 2010, I paused one night in ritual to think ahead to the next year and what it would bring me. In a moment of clarity, I caught a “whiff” of things to come. Many have come to pass–beautifully–but some, I couldn’t see happening. Two in particular, I did not understand. I…
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The Best Reason People You Loved Aren’t Still in Your Life
Photo of a package of glasses on a store shelf. It’s said that there’s a reason that people from your past didn’t make it to the future. Sometimes, in hindsight, you can see that the reason was a very positive one. I lounged in a hotel room over an hour from home, waiting to hear…
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Repeating Frustrating Patterns in Romance, Career, and Life
From the upcoming book, 23 Ways I Screwed Up My Life with the Law of Attraction—and How I Fixed It My 17-year-old sprawls across the passenger seat, her injured foot on the dashboard, and she cuddles against her pillow. Her mood is that of a wounded kitten, and she’s withdrawn rather than her usual outgoing…
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Increase Creativity to Relieve Time Management Stress in Analytical Jobs
Shannon is on the verge of 20, a college senior in Psychology, and stressed to the max. She carries a heavy course load, works 20 hours a week in a counseling clinic, and is focusing on complicated research projects in sociology and psychology while preparing her grad school admissions packages. So how to combat the…
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Capturing Souls in Photographs
The eyes are the windows of the soul, indeed! Yes, her eyes really are that color and those are lichens on the ground in this beautiful natural setting. Some cultures believe (or did initially) that a photographer could steal your soul if he took pictures of you. I’m not sure about “stealing,” but I now…
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Ghosts in the Mirrors
Click on the pics in this post for larger views. Back in college, one of my term projects was to find and point out erotic objects in advertising as part of my demonstration of how subliminal advertising works. Yes, there were plenty of phallic symbols–some VERY plain–in the shadows and curves of liquor ads. I’ve…
