After sharing my collection of sunrise and sunset photographs from the past thirteen years, I decided it was time to do something more with them. Instead of allowing these images to continue languishing in numerous folders, devices, hard drives, and digital storage spaces, I began gathering them together and turning them into videos. The first video brought together photographs from 2012 and 2013—the beginning of this unexpected collection. While some photos brought tears, so

As I stand in this part of my life, I feel something shifting. I am no longer standing only in the place of remembering. I am no longer looking back only to understand what was lost, what was dimmed, or what I had to survive. Those losses shaped me, yes, but I do not wish to build this season around them. I honor them quietly, then turn my face toward what is alive in me now. And what is alive in me now is creation.This is my season of creating - right now it is in creating t

As I write this, I am looking at photographs of flowers from my garden that only weeks ago were vibrant with color and life. Now, beneath the relentless summer sun of Las Vegas, many of their petals have faded, curled, and fallen away. The same garden that felt abundant in spring appears stressed and weathered beneath the sizzling desert heat. For a moment, it is tempting to see only what has been lost. Yet the flowers have not truly disappeared. Their season of blooming has