Life indeed is a force to contend with, as you said. Yet, the way you approach it, the way you capture it in its flawed beauty, is so full of truth and hope. A beautiful film, a beautiful poem. The beautiful faces of your mom, husband, and you. Loved it all!
“We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all.”
Oh Krissy. Maybe we are related? For sure in God’s family and He definitely knows what He’s doing connecting us :). Thank you so much. You might not know this but you have given me more confidence to post my heart and show some films. I have long loved the still image - but I see more and always have. Just wish there had been access to some of this when I was a young mom. Stills will do. I once had a very ginormous video camera dad gave me - but I could barely stand up with it!! ha ha! It was my dad who took a ton of 8mm and those were small and heavy like bricks. As I age, I crave more beauty to overcome the grief. In what Didion says (so so true). Oh and that’s my brother who’s looking after my mom.
Ah, your brother, not husband! I’m still learning faces to names.<3 And I am honored that my projects have in any way inspired yours- your still images are so unbelievably beautiful, that it just makes sense to add in some video to that, too. I’m imagining that wildly large videocamera- the good days, where folks truly had to work at in order to make it happen!! :)
Oh I’m not even sure if I’ve posted John’s face much! ha ha! Oh I think in a few music posts/stories. I’m six years older than my brother so if we look close in age then that makes me extra happy (lol). And thank you for your lovely compliment. I can still see myself trying to operate this huge camera on my shoulder while trying to follow my three year old daughter on a tricycle. I gave up and used the camera dad gave me! I have that picture on my shelf still. I’ll send it over in a p.m. :) I was far more inclined to figure out how to be a completely manual film shooter than live video back then - raising a family! I think I would have missed a ton of moments or had video in nothing but blur!! We’re still making it happen! Grateful for the ease of use tools as much as I fought them in my career. I grew with it. We have to. It still takes a ton to create a movie!!! Mostly the energy to make it what we see and feel. ox
Thank you so much Jenn! It was a force of nature/God that I did this. So many emotions and the park was unusually clear of visitors. Seeing my mom walking with her cane in a place that meant so much to her and dad, when they first found it — knowing how hard it is to embrace now with her eyes, rather wanting to just stay at home or how difficult it can be to think bigger and just get outside. It was a sweet time mixed with all our personalities, changes and challenges. But always— love in the end. Sending you my love. Hope you’re doing well with all you have going on. oxox
That’s just beautiful. Life is so full of…life. That’s really no other way to put it sometimes. I love hearing the history and love tied into this gorgeous place.
That's fabulous. I love music. All genres. Started taking singing lessons back in 2018 to fulfill a deep childhood yearning and passion; it is my escape and brings me so much joy. I love the references you make on your posts about music and lyrics. 💕
Oh thank you thank you for watching and your lovely comment Trudi! I threw so many emotions into it I wanted to sleep for a week after I was done! (although that did not happen and I’m still tired!)
It’s all an offering. Living our purpose, right? oxox
Thank you so much Rosemary! I am so glad you felt this. It was truly an outer body experience for me, like much of my work at times. It was as if God cleared the park, and although I was to remain “present” with my mom and the short visit - it was a force that said, “create” what you are feeling. ox
Deborah, your piece feels like a quiet walk through memory—where grief and beauty exist side by side. The imagery and music hold space for what’s unsaid, like Didion’s words: mourning not just what we’ve lost, but who we’ve been.
That line—“I am silver / lined / in thunder”—struck something deep. Thank you for reminding us how nature and art can hold our most complicated emotions with tenderness.
Dear Jay, I woke up this morning, grabbed some coffee and saw this, which then made me cry. You got it. You got me.
As a professional photographer, for many years, my career was full of wanting to tell stories in stills. I covered people, editorial events, politics, concerts, passion. And it was in that stillness I would go to my office and see people through those images and I would get pretty emotional, very late at night, when all was quiet. It was never about me. But do you see them? the bigger picture? the small picture that speaks louder than words can say? the emotions, contrasts and juxtapositions.
And now I am going silver. And everything is speaking. I am lined in a thunder of emotions lived like the trees, my elderly mom, her near blindness, the thoughts she is expressing, surviving WW2, abandonment, coming to the surface, everything so fragile and tender, for so many humans, and the blessing of still getting to live this life.
I am so grateful for your comment and how that line struck you with the imagery. “nature and art can hold our most complicated emotions with tenderness.” Yesss. I can’t tell you how much this means.
Reading your reply made me emotional—how you describe going silver, how everything is speaking now… it feels like a whisper from the forest itself. Yes, I see it. The stillness, the contrasts, the threads running through time and memory. You carry so much grace in the way you look at the world—and let us look with you.
As someone who isn’t a professional photographer, I just want to say how much I admired the visual flow of The Family We Keep. The angles, the gentle pacing, the transitions—they were exquisite. Each frame breathed alongside the poem. It felt like watching a quiet truth unfold.
Your work gave me that rare sense of being held in between—between loss and beauty, story and silence.
Deborah, thank you again for creating something so tender and so deeply seen.
I feel like this is when my mom says “I love you more.” Now I have tears again. We are in felt competition here! lol. How beautiful to read your words as if you understand everything that lives inside of me. If only we could all conceptualize a world where we could see the inside of everyone before judging. Or their day to day life and complexities, diverse families, etc.
My favorite quote is something that always leaves me stopping in my tracks. C.S. Lewis, who Joan Didion mentions when she was searching for material about understanding grief, said, “Aim for heaven and get earth thrown in. Aim at Earth and you will get neither.” There is always something richer, higher, more beautiful than ourselves to aim for and on the way, there is love.
What a beautiful quote to carry—thank you for sharing it. “Aim for heaven and get earth thrown in…” I feel that in my bones. And in your work, that’s exactly what you do: you aim toward something higher, and in doing so, offer us the beauty of what’s here, too—complex, fragile, deeply human.
I’m so grateful for this exchange. Not as a back-and-forth, but as a quiet space held together.
Yesss. I am sitting here feeling so incredibly lifted up by this exchange. It shows that we are seen exactly where we are meant to be seen. The spirit is everywhere placing us exactly where we are meant to be — so perfectly knit together for a purpose. In all of this I am so encouraged to keep going and creating. I love that you love that quote. It’s short and sweet — yet packed with so much.
My own personal quote after going through immense grief, which got me to this place on Substack - is:
Thank you from the bottom of my heart friend for watching, reading and for this lovely comment. It made me smile so big. I am grateful you were lifted up by it. Silver Falls is a blessing to behold. Healing. I know you have these areas in Australia that give life to your soul. I was full of emotion, joy, sorrow, hope, and it all came together. I had a real need for it and the park was amazingly clear of people. That never happens. It felt like God was walking me through it all.
Hope you’re having a peaceful weekend. Sending you my love always. ox
Hi Deborah, Yes, we have many beautiful places to ponder in nature. Isn't she amazing, how she listens to and soothes our soul. If it felt like God was walking with you, then God was. I am having a peaceful weekend, thank you. Sending love back to you 🥰
Thank you, thank you friend! I feel so blessed that you watched it and am overwhelmed by your comment. I hope you are enjoying your weekend. Btw, mom lives in a town that you would crave with all the old fashioned things you write about. Kids on the street, swinging light at the one stop in town, and joy in gatherings, sweet city events, grief shared when losing a neighbor or someone in town where the people pitch in and take care of each other. oxox
How beautiful, Deborah. Those moss covered trees are spectacular, real works of art. I really enjoyed your film, it's moving, and love-filled. What a stunning part of the world.
Francesca, I am so very grateful for your comment. It filled my spirit as much as doing this. I want to put more of my heart for beauty out there and sometimes I am nervous to do so. I know you know. It’s a good transition from the profession I loved of photography. Story telling in stills was my passion.
Silver Falls is a treasure to behold. Isn’t that moss amazing? I am forever mesmerized by it. I think out of everything in the park I can stand and stare the longest at the moss covered trees, their long arms stretching and reaching in all directions.
And I must catch up with your poetry and look at your book (which btw congratulations again — it’s a BIG deal!!) Hope you are having a peaceful more pain-free weekend. Sending you a big hug and much love. oxox
The music encompassed the grandeur of nature. I imagined the first people seeing the falls for the first time. At a great distance, the falls would have called to them. They stepped out of the dense forest and delighted in the sight. "Let us gather our tents and provisions and move near this wonder. The great spirit is near."
Thank you so much Joel for taking the time to watch my little film. I had these thoughts too as I did in Sedona last month seeing it for the first time. I have walked Silver Falls so many times and it never gets old or ceases to amaze. I love what you say here. oxox
Glorious, glorious, glorious. Deb I'm so grateful for the way that you share with us what you see and hear. This was such a gift. Thank you the words and the video and the music.
Jody! Your comment is a gift to my heart. Thank you for blessing me with the inspiration to keep going. You have no idea how much it means. When moving images, music and words come together I have to chase it down. This was a cleansing in more ways than I can explain. It will be three years June 1st of running to creativity and what God has for me. Somehow, in reflection, He cleared the park. There are always several people there - yet I walked and filmed and was completely lost in thought. All God’s provision.
Grace! oh my heart! Thank you so very much! This is a new direction for me to have the nerve to share film a bit more. It’s something I have loved for years and dabbled with - but it’s a perfect transition from the still images of my previous photography profession — always wanting to see movement in them. Stories. Emotions. Music. Does it get any better? Hope you’re having a peaceful weekend. ox
Making others smile fuels my happiness. I'm glad to say this weekend is going smoothly and I hope yours is also filled with peace and moments of joy. Look forward to seeing more videos! xo
I can feel this Grace. You are so kind. I attended my husband’s season finale’ for one of the symphony’s he’s in and it was so good. He is a down home construction worker with rough hands, bad eyes and a love for that double bass. Beginning at 12 years old. Played it in both his dad and granddad’s funerals at 15 and 17 years old. I am always amazed by the amount of us older people who continue to do their passions. It fills my heart to tears. Uplifted by the fact that we just keep going. Life is for living, despite the great lows it can deliver. ox
My day started perfect a few minutes ago! I found your post first this morning Deborah sitting on our front porch out in our own countryside, admiring your mother‘s beautiful farm and the woods! Thank you so much for producing this beautiful video and your lovely complementary poem. Love it! ❤️
Oh Charlotte, thank you so very much!!! I got home at 1 a.m. Thursday morning. Didn’t sleep the best this time - so been slow to catchup and did throw myself into honoring this place I love and adore so much with all the emotions of life mixed in. Mom doesn’t live on a farm but in a small farming community. She is surrounded by farmland. Mostly Christmas trees and white wine country! Only about 2800k live there. Silver Falls is about 20 min away! I have been there several times, every year since my parents moved there from the coast in 2003. It’s magic. In fact it was one of the first places my dad drove us, from the beach, to see that park. I remember the picnic we had when my kids were very little. I hope you’re having a beautiful weekend. Love you. oxox
Right? We have wanted to live their for so long — but with our third generation electrical business and our family here in SoCal (although I think I mentioned our oldest is moving in less than 2 weeks to Placerville) it’s been impossible. We are letting go and letting God lead us in these next few years. Hope this finds you doing well my sweet friend. oxox
Not surprisingly you've created a beautiful metaphor juxtaposing the beauty of Spring against the cruelty of aging! To me, the flowing water signifies the passage of the time between the two. Yet the hope of the horizons - symbolic of the places yet to go in the future fulfills us with a solution for the brevity of life. BEAUTIFULLY DONE! Keep it coming!
Bob, did you know that whenever you leave me a comment my heart soars to another planet. Thank you for telling me how it made you feel. It’s all the emotions, the many contrasts. You so perfectly expressed the state of my brain on fire for all those emotions. Thank you, thank you, thank you. oxoxox
Life indeed is a force to contend with, as you said. Yet, the way you approach it, the way you capture it in its flawed beauty, is so full of truth and hope. A beautiful film, a beautiful poem. The beautiful faces of your mom, husband, and you. Loved it all!
“We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all.”
And this quote above. YES!
Oh Krissy. Maybe we are related? For sure in God’s family and He definitely knows what He’s doing connecting us :). Thank you so much. You might not know this but you have given me more confidence to post my heart and show some films. I have long loved the still image - but I see more and always have. Just wish there had been access to some of this when I was a young mom. Stills will do. I once had a very ginormous video camera dad gave me - but I could barely stand up with it!! ha ha! It was my dad who took a ton of 8mm and those were small and heavy like bricks. As I age, I crave more beauty to overcome the grief. In what Didion says (so so true). Oh and that’s my brother who’s looking after my mom.
oxoxox
Ah, your brother, not husband! I’m still learning faces to names.<3 And I am honored that my projects have in any way inspired yours- your still images are so unbelievably beautiful, that it just makes sense to add in some video to that, too. I’m imagining that wildly large videocamera- the good days, where folks truly had to work at in order to make it happen!! :)
Oh I’m not even sure if I’ve posted John’s face much! ha ha! Oh I think in a few music posts/stories. I’m six years older than my brother so if we look close in age then that makes me extra happy (lol). And thank you for your lovely compliment. I can still see myself trying to operate this huge camera on my shoulder while trying to follow my three year old daughter on a tricycle. I gave up and used the camera dad gave me! I have that picture on my shelf still. I’ll send it over in a p.m. :) I was far more inclined to figure out how to be a completely manual film shooter than live video back then - raising a family! I think I would have missed a ton of moments or had video in nothing but blur!! We’re still making it happen! Grateful for the ease of use tools as much as I fought them in my career. I grew with it. We have to. It still takes a ton to create a movie!!! Mostly the energy to make it what we see and feel. ox
So gorgeous, Deb! That waterfall is incredible. Thank you for sharing its beauty! I hope your time with your mom is wonderful ❤️
Thank you so much Jenn! It was a force of nature/God that I did this. So many emotions and the park was unusually clear of visitors. Seeing my mom walking with her cane in a place that meant so much to her and dad, when they first found it — knowing how hard it is to embrace now with her eyes, rather wanting to just stay at home or how difficult it can be to think bigger and just get outside. It was a sweet time mixed with all our personalities, changes and challenges. But always— love in the end. Sending you my love. Hope you’re doing well with all you have going on. oxox
That’s just beautiful. Life is so full of…life. That’s really no other way to put it sometimes. I love hearing the history and love tied into this gorgeous place.
It’s so true. And God’s majestic earth speaks for us. oxox
That's fabulous. I love music. All genres. Started taking singing lessons back in 2018 to fulfill a deep childhood yearning and passion; it is my escape and brings me so much joy. I love the references you make on your posts about music and lyrics. 💕
Oh this is so good to hear 🙌🏻
I couldn't carry a note if my life depended on it! 😅
But I can hear well and absolutely adore music and lyrics! Thank you Grace 🙏🏻
Samuel Barbers Adagio for Strings. Simply beautiful
It’s one of my top favorite classical pieces! Thank you so much Curt :)
This is very special, Deb. So relaxing and everything comes together so well. A wave of serenity 💕
Thank you friend. I appreciate it.
Everything an offering. What a beautiful world amidst so much pain and heartache.
oxox
And YOU put it together. A little package of peace x
Thank you ☺️
This is utterly bewitching. My soul is soothed! Beautiful images and serene music. Thank you, Deborah! ☺️✨
Oh thank you thank you for watching and your lovely comment Trudi! I threw so many emotions into it I wanted to sleep for a week after I was done! (although that did not happen and I’m still tired!)
It’s all an offering. Living our purpose, right? oxox
Living our purpose! 🥰🙌
Lovely, Deborah. Made me feel as if I was hiking in BC with my son. Loved the moss covered trees and faded blooms at the end.
Thank you so much Rosemary! I am so glad you felt this. It was truly an outer body experience for me, like much of my work at times. It was as if God cleared the park, and although I was to remain “present” with my mom and the short visit - it was a force that said, “create” what you are feeling. ox
Deborah, your piece feels like a quiet walk through memory—where grief and beauty exist side by side. The imagery and music hold space for what’s unsaid, like Didion’s words: mourning not just what we’ve lost, but who we’ve been.
That line—“I am silver / lined / in thunder”—struck something deep. Thank you for reminding us how nature and art can hold our most complicated emotions with tenderness.
Beautiful moving pictures, too.
—Jay
Dear Jay, I woke up this morning, grabbed some coffee and saw this, which then made me cry. You got it. You got me.
As a professional photographer, for many years, my career was full of wanting to tell stories in stills. I covered people, editorial events, politics, concerts, passion. And it was in that stillness I would go to my office and see people through those images and I would get pretty emotional, very late at night, when all was quiet. It was never about me. But do you see them? the bigger picture? the small picture that speaks louder than words can say? the emotions, contrasts and juxtapositions.
And now I am going silver. And everything is speaking. I am lined in a thunder of emotions lived like the trees, my elderly mom, her near blindness, the thoughts she is expressing, surviving WW2, abandonment, coming to the surface, everything so fragile and tender, for so many humans, and the blessing of still getting to live this life.
I am so grateful for your comment and how that line struck you with the imagery. “nature and art can hold our most complicated emotions with tenderness.” Yesss. I can’t tell you how much this means.
Thank you Jay. oxoxox
Dear Deborah,
Reading your reply made me emotional—how you describe going silver, how everything is speaking now… it feels like a whisper from the forest itself. Yes, I see it. The stillness, the contrasts, the threads running through time and memory. You carry so much grace in the way you look at the world—and let us look with you.
As someone who isn’t a professional photographer, I just want to say how much I admired the visual flow of The Family We Keep. The angles, the gentle pacing, the transitions—they were exquisite. Each frame breathed alongside the poem. It felt like watching a quiet truth unfold.
Your work gave me that rare sense of being held in between—between loss and beauty, story and silence.
Deborah, thank you again for creating something so tender and so deeply seen.
xo Jay
Dear Jay,
I feel like this is when my mom says “I love you more.” Now I have tears again. We are in felt competition here! lol. How beautiful to read your words as if you understand everything that lives inside of me. If only we could all conceptualize a world where we could see the inside of everyone before judging. Or their day to day life and complexities, diverse families, etc.
My favorite quote is something that always leaves me stopping in my tracks. C.S. Lewis, who Joan Didion mentions when she was searching for material about understanding grief, said, “Aim for heaven and get earth thrown in. Aim at Earth and you will get neither.” There is always something richer, higher, more beautiful than ourselves to aim for and on the way, there is love.
Thank you for the love.
deb ox
Dear Deb,
What a beautiful quote to carry—thank you for sharing it. “Aim for heaven and get earth thrown in…” I feel that in my bones. And in your work, that’s exactly what you do: you aim toward something higher, and in doing so, offer us the beauty of what’s here, too—complex, fragile, deeply human.
I’m so grateful for this exchange. Not as a back-and-forth, but as a quiet space held together.
With love,
Jay
Yesss. I am sitting here feeling so incredibly lifted up by this exchange. It shows that we are seen exactly where we are meant to be seen. The spirit is everywhere placing us exactly where we are meant to be — so perfectly knit together for a purpose. In all of this I am so encouraged to keep going and creating. I love that you love that quote. It’s short and sweet — yet packed with so much.
My own personal quote after going through immense grief, which got me to this place on Substack - is:
“I live to create and create to live.”
Run to it. We are made for this.
love, deb
ox
What a wonderful quote this is: “I live to create and create to live.” I might like to borrow it with your permission.
Beautiful Deborah, thank you for sharing this fabulous footage, it is very peaceful, with the music, and the poem 🙏❤️
Thank you from the bottom of my heart friend for watching, reading and for this lovely comment. It made me smile so big. I am grateful you were lifted up by it. Silver Falls is a blessing to behold. Healing. I know you have these areas in Australia that give life to your soul. I was full of emotion, joy, sorrow, hope, and it all came together. I had a real need for it and the park was amazingly clear of people. That never happens. It felt like God was walking me through it all.
Hope you’re having a peaceful weekend. Sending you my love always. ox
Hi Deborah, Yes, we have many beautiful places to ponder in nature. Isn't she amazing, how she listens to and soothes our soul. If it felt like God was walking with you, then God was. I am having a peaceful weekend, thank you. Sending love back to you 🥰
Thankful for nature and for you. Glad you are having a good weekend. Thank you. It’s felt. oxox
❤️❤️❤️
The video is incredible, breathtaking, calm and peaceful. The music accompaniment is perfect. You did this very well.
Thank you, thank you friend! I feel so blessed that you watched it and am overwhelmed by your comment. I hope you are enjoying your weekend. Btw, mom lives in a town that you would crave with all the old fashioned things you write about. Kids on the street, swinging light at the one stop in town, and joy in gatherings, sweet city events, grief shared when losing a neighbor or someone in town where the people pitch in and take care of each other. oxox
How beautiful, Deborah. Those moss covered trees are spectacular, real works of art. I really enjoyed your film, it's moving, and love-filled. What a stunning part of the world.
Francesca, I am so very grateful for your comment. It filled my spirit as much as doing this. I want to put more of my heart for beauty out there and sometimes I am nervous to do so. I know you know. It’s a good transition from the profession I loved of photography. Story telling in stills was my passion.
Silver Falls is a treasure to behold. Isn’t that moss amazing? I am forever mesmerized by it. I think out of everything in the park I can stand and stare the longest at the moss covered trees, their long arms stretching and reaching in all directions.
And I must catch up with your poetry and look at your book (which btw congratulations again — it’s a BIG deal!!) Hope you are having a peaceful more pain-free weekend. Sending you a big hug and much love. oxox
The music encompassed the grandeur of nature. I imagined the first people seeing the falls for the first time. At a great distance, the falls would have called to them. They stepped out of the dense forest and delighted in the sight. "Let us gather our tents and provisions and move near this wonder. The great spirit is near."
Thank you so much Joel for taking the time to watch my little film. I had these thoughts too as I did in Sedona last month seeing it for the first time. I have walked Silver Falls so many times and it never gets old or ceases to amaze. I love what you say here. oxox
Glorious, glorious, glorious. Deb I'm so grateful for the way that you share with us what you see and hear. This was such a gift. Thank you the words and the video and the music.
Jody! Your comment is a gift to my heart. Thank you for blessing me with the inspiration to keep going. You have no idea how much it means. When moving images, music and words come together I have to chase it down. This was a cleansing in more ways than I can explain. It will be three years June 1st of running to creativity and what God has for me. Somehow, in reflection, He cleared the park. There are always several people there - yet I walked and filmed and was completely lost in thought. All God’s provision.
Amazing videography! It felt like I was walking with you on the path. So gorgeous. Fantastic job. 💖💖
Grace! oh my heart! Thank you so very much! This is a new direction for me to have the nerve to share film a bit more. It’s something I have loved for years and dabbled with - but it’s a perfect transition from the still images of my previous photography profession — always wanting to see movement in them. Stories. Emotions. Music. Does it get any better? Hope you’re having a peaceful weekend. ox
You already are a wonderful story teller the video is a bonus. 🩵
Dear Grace, thank you. I am kinda emotional today and this really made me smile. I hope you’re having a peaceful weekend. love, deb ox
Making others smile fuels my happiness. I'm glad to say this weekend is going smoothly and I hope yours is also filled with peace and moments of joy. Look forward to seeing more videos! xo
I can feel this Grace. You are so kind. I attended my husband’s season finale’ for one of the symphony’s he’s in and it was so good. He is a down home construction worker with rough hands, bad eyes and a love for that double bass. Beginning at 12 years old. Played it in both his dad and granddad’s funerals at 15 and 17 years old. I am always amazed by the amount of us older people who continue to do their passions. It fills my heart to tears. Uplifted by the fact that we just keep going. Life is for living, despite the great lows it can deliver. ox
My day started perfect a few minutes ago! I found your post first this morning Deborah sitting on our front porch out in our own countryside, admiring your mother‘s beautiful farm and the woods! Thank you so much for producing this beautiful video and your lovely complementary poem. Love it! ❤️
Oh Charlotte, thank you so very much!!! I got home at 1 a.m. Thursday morning. Didn’t sleep the best this time - so been slow to catchup and did throw myself into honoring this place I love and adore so much with all the emotions of life mixed in. Mom doesn’t live on a farm but in a small farming community. She is surrounded by farmland. Mostly Christmas trees and white wine country! Only about 2800k live there. Silver Falls is about 20 min away! I have been there several times, every year since my parents moved there from the coast in 2003. It’s magic. In fact it was one of the first places my dad drove us, from the beach, to see that park. I remember the picnic we had when my kids were very little. I hope you’re having a beautiful weekend. Love you. oxox
What a beautiful place to visit!
Right? We have wanted to live their for so long — but with our third generation electrical business and our family here in SoCal (although I think I mentioned our oldest is moving in less than 2 weeks to Placerville) it’s been impossible. We are letting go and letting God lead us in these next few years. Hope this finds you doing well my sweet friend. oxox
Not surprisingly you've created a beautiful metaphor juxtaposing the beauty of Spring against the cruelty of aging! To me, the flowing water signifies the passage of the time between the two. Yet the hope of the horizons - symbolic of the places yet to go in the future fulfills us with a solution for the brevity of life. BEAUTIFULLY DONE! Keep it coming!
Bob, did you know that whenever you leave me a comment my heart soars to another planet. Thank you for telling me how it made you feel. It’s all the emotions, the many contrasts. You so perfectly expressed the state of my brain on fire for all those emotions. Thank you, thank you, thank you. oxoxox