This has been a difficult pair of days for getting photos.  Yesterday, I couldn't get my head around how to capture the theme.  Today, I couldn't find a way to go beyond the obvious. Growing up, "mass" was a foreign word.  It was something the Catholics did.  Lutherans had "church services" or "worship services." The... Continue Reading →

Kindness.  Really?   How do you photograph kindness.  If you're lucky, you might be in the right place and time to capture that photojournalistic image of someone doing a random act of kindness.   But as a daily assignment, this is a rather daunting task.  I could have staged something, but that would be rather... Continue Reading →

Symbols are ubiquitous. They capture complex ideas into a simple drawing. They allow us to communicate with each other over time and space. They can relay simple instructions. They can invoke complex emotion. They can be universally recognized or only for the initiated. They can be clever or mundane. They may be beautiful. They can... Continue Reading →

for·ti·tude   /ˈfôrtəˌto͞od/ noun: fortitude courage in pain or adversity. "she endured her illness with great fortitude" synonyms: courage, bravery, endurance, resilience, moral fiber, strength of mind, strength of character, strong-mindedness, backbone, spirit, grit,true grit, doughtiness, steadfastness;  antonyms: faint-heartedness Perhaps this is a side effect of being male, but often when we (or at lest I) think about fortitude, we think of standing strong... Continue Reading →

Easter is so close.  Holy Week begins in just 5 days.  But, we must wait. I suspect that I am not the only person observing a Lenten discipline that is beginning to feel its weight.   As much I have enjoyed where the photography challenge has taken me, I will not mourn its completion.  Those... Continue Reading →

I'm tired.  No commentary today.  I'll let the photo speak for itself for a change.

It has happened again.  I failed to get yesterday's photo (family) on the day it was due. But there is a bit of meta-irony in why I did not have the head or heart for taking time to observe my daily discipline—a member of my family was being shafted and I was fuming. In her... Continue Reading →

Each Sunday, we transition from the sharing of the peace to the presentation of our offering with the words, "Let us worship God with our offerings." Because we hear these same words every week,  I wonder if we sometimes fall into the habit of hearing them in the same we we hear, "...and the home of... Continue Reading →

No, today's theme is not "Lent Light," some rebranding that offers an easier or less filling form of Lent.  But seriously, I had two ways that I could have gone with this.  The opposite of heavy or the opposite of dark.  I opted for the latter. Today's photo is of sunRISE, not sunset.  I took... Continue Reading →

Ok... I'll admit that I let the day's events drive the photo more than did the word of the day. That being said, this little guy actually works pretty well for discussing sacrifice. The earliest form of sacrifice that we knew within human society was the abandoning of that which we valued at the foot... Continue Reading →