A husband and wife from India visited C.
They went swimming in a hotel pool at sunrise.
Happy, she sings swims sings swims.
He dives down.
She stands slapping blue water chanting a song measuring his breath below the surface.
Her red sari seals her.
Smiling and laughing she chants.
He stays under a long time.
She skips blue water. Her voice is angelic. Flowing water over the edge.
Her laughter is a happy child.
Burma
Fight
Flight
Feed
Freeze
Fornicate
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Decisive Moment - ephemeral & spontaneous
Image represents the essence of the event itself
Work the scene
Use your intuition
Poetic
Lose yourself zone
Or creative flow state
The beauty of shape & form
A sense of simplicity expression
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Yangon, Burma, 2015
I am the rebel angel and my tears the trace of one virtue: patience.
You can beat me my time will come. - Max Jacob
Laos
Good writing is about telling the truth.
Write one true sentence.
Write the truest sentence you know.
Find meaning in an experience or feeling.
Perfectionism is a high end version of fear.
Writing needs to breathe and move.
Stay curious & amused by yourself.
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North Burma
Ride the rails click clack click clack click clack
Nature visions and bamboo forests
silver rivers feel fresh air hanging out the door of a rock’n roll train
rail alliteration starts at 4 AM
space stars open the sky
A red shaped leaf
Fields of lilacs, purple black and gold, butterflies,
sense of stillness, renewal of free rolling spirit,
yellow bamboo leaves at lower elevations,
then green exploding in high lush gardens with fir, pine, evergreens.
Fields being planted
Women and men and children hoeing, watering, turning soil
Say yes to everything.
Laos
Unhappy people in a happy world
Sign ones talk with hands eyes heart
Voice ones – the loudest talker is big life’s winner minus comprehension
Burma
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Photography > invisible > experiment > experience > innocent > detour > go slow
Ghost
Everything is special and precious
You are a miracle
Burma
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Grow Your Soul
Writers are shamans.
We go into the mountains and we come back with visions for our tribes.
Our holy assignment.
Wolf meets dog. Freedom vs. slavery.
Writing is a river with many tributaries.
Empathy - Cognitive & Emotional
Mushin - no thought, no emotion, no expectation
Kafka - it's about impossible situations and ambiguity
Dialogue with an image. What / why it speaks to us. What does it say to us?
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