Inspiration

“Friendships Cause Heartbreaks Too” This is Day One of, “Thirty Days of Haydee” and I must admit this is a little scary for me. Why you may ask? Because vulnerability is my enemy. But why blog about 30 days of me… if I’m not going to be ME. So here goes nothing. I wanted…

I tried so hard to block the pain of poetry — I wrapped each word around my fingers they somehow kept me warm at night but now empty words run down the sewer leaving me feeling invisible. It’s as if I wrote not one word at all. A year with no words. A page with no scribbles. It’s as if I…

I am beginning to learn how to communicate — I have been a photographer now for several months. And before I got my first camera, I used to hear my husband say photography is a visual language. I just understood what he meant recently. Today I want to share some thoughts about how thinking of photos as a visual…

Inspired Poetry — I bite into a tasteless apple. It is penance for my past days of gluttony, still, I feel bland and uninspired. I beg for the ocean to swallow me, then throw me back to familiar ground terra firma unscathed. It might bring forth words flowing into the shallow end of my brain…

(This article was written in August 1995, shortly after the experience) In Dunedin it pays to get on the water early. New paddlers may or may not have heard of the eleven o’clock chop, but Taiaroa Head can be a stern teacher. I had been kayaking Dunedin’s harbour and coastal…

Maybe you should ask JoAnn Ryan 😉 — Ah! Nothing like playing a game with prompts, especially those that involve showing your own photos. The best kind, no? When I read JoAnn Ryan’s brilliant challenge prompt that suggested . . . …simply find your favorite photos where the subject starts with ‘A’. Coming up with an inventive, fun…