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You may ask... Who am I?

I am impulsive enough to surprise you,
smart enough to entice you,
silly enough to make you laugh out loud,
charming enough to drive you mad,
quiet enough to match your mystery,
wild enough to make you stumble,
and real enough to make you care...
almost always decent,
but I have my wicked moments
(wink wink!) ...




You may ask... Who or what I'm interested in?

"It doesn't interest me what you do for a living.
I want to know what you ache for,
and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing...

It doesn't interest me how old you are,
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool
for love,
for your dream,
for the adventure of being alive...

It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon...
I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow
if you have been opened by life's betrayals
or have become shrivelled and closed from fear of further pain...

I want to know if you can sit with pain
mine or your own
without moving to hide it
or fade it
or fix it...

I want to know if you can be with joy
mine or your own
if you can dance with wildness
and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes
without cautioning us
to be careful,
to be realistic,
to remember the limitations of being human...

It doesn't interest me if the story you're telling me is true.
I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself,
if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul.
If you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy...

I want to know if you can see Beauty even when it is not pretty
every day...
And if you can source your own life from its presence...

I want to know if you can live with failure
yours or mine
and still stand at the edge of the lake
and shout to the silver of the full moon,
"YES"...

It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have
I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair
weary and bruised to the bone and do what needs to be done
to feed the children...

It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand in the centre of fire
with me and not shrink back...

It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied,
I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away.

I want to know if you can be alone with yourself,
and if you truly like the company you keep in those empty moments...
(do you know who said that? Big plus for anyone that knows this...)

Whatever I wrote here about who I feel I am and what kind of souls I'm interested in, will give you only a little clue about who I really am...
You can't say I didn't try...
As a "maniac" photographer I live my life by:
"Take your best SHOT, and see what develops".

Found on this great website with poems and I loved it.
(hope the author doesn't mind).
I had to share it with you as acknowledgment:

"I can lay aside this cynicism For visionary truths
I want to touch beginning and renewal
I want to breathe in belief and live inspiration
I want to be healed of the terror of decimated love
Restore its assaults to my personhood
I want longing without shame or ambition
I am ready to be innocent again
I am ready to reside in hope and abandon fear"
(best poem I read in a while)

My favorite writer:
Issac Assimov - Fundation (saga of the future of civilization. Read it 3rd time).
Also, all books by Dan Brown "Angels and Demons" and the best book ever " The DaVinci Code".
I read lots of Photography learning guides.



Where I traveled so far: