The Big 60

Ok, its coming, my 60th birthday. All these years. Lots of stuff entered my head lately, like being nine years old and driving a big old Schwinn brown bike with fat tires and big giant dent in the front fender. I got that flying over some curb and landing on my head where I still have a little souvenir scar . I remember the giant concrete pool in the park with a fountain in the middle. They had boat races using the wind up metal boats. I can't believe how that made my heart race. Many more memory traces as we all have. It seems like a million years ago and only yesterday at the same time. Ok, time to live in the present....isn't that when life really happens???

Change is here

This world doesn't resemble the world I grew up in. In a few days I turn 60, wow, where did it all go? Living in the past really makes little sense because all of life happens in the present, happens now. We have a changing economy, changing government and changing generation. None us will be around for more then two or three generations so you only have to study history to see world and civilizations are always evolving. You really can't stop change anymore then you can stop time, it just happens. I guess that's why nostalgia is always something people gravitate to. It gives you a sense of comfort to fall back into the familiar, the knowable and the safe. So you have to jump into life if you want to live now. You have to choose what you have because that's all really can be sure of.

Being a photographer

Very few things in my life have been as rewarding as being a portrait artist. Anytime you can make a living doing something you love, you are truly blessed.