Our being in a photograph----especially in relation to nature----makes us into icons, and just as we view the photo, we become larger than our lives.

For example, here are three generations, sitting with an ancient one:


My desire for my daughter and granddaughter is that they take these feelings with them when they move to Austin over the next month or two, and that they feel safer and more whole because of them. Austin's a big city compared to our own little town here, so I am hoping they can find places of calm, clarity, and grounding to help them in their own continual acts of balancing.