When everything that was meant to happen doesn’t, something else begins – the art that insists on living anyway.
There is something ever so important about energy force. How many times, think back for a second, you were elated or scared, doesn’t matter, but you wished for something with that energy charge of emotion- good and bad, and it happened. Sooner or later. Remember that blog post about how I became a photographer and…
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