Over the last twenty years, I have collected hundreds of images. And in that time they have started to look different to me or to say something new. Either way, they
Continue readingLife of Pie & Corresponding Theories on Memory.
It doesn’t happen all the time, which is what makes it feel so good, I think. Despite all the noise in this busy world, things get very quiet. And I
Continue readingMustard Seed. (The light hitting the water: part two)
Prelude. One of the most wonderful things about writing is that you can look back on how you have been feeling, and how your perspective has changed. In the past
The apex of my circumstances these last few years have usually taken place behind the wheel of a car, or in the seat of an airplane; there is always and
In the early fall of 2000 I left the small town of Littleton Colorado and moved north… to an even smaller town just shy of Wyoming. Greeley, Colorado is
There truly is no telling when inspiration will strike. For me, as July just started creeping in, it was on board a 220 heading back to Seattle. I can officially
“It seems only natural that we should improve as we age. But in the inevitable glow of accomplishment we can forget that natural is not synonymous with simple.
Improvement is often difficult, and that difficulty can even hurt sometimes. I believe however, that the presence of that difficulty is crucial. It cultivates an awareness,
like a glacier it carves through what already exists to make room for what will come next. In those moments of struggle, when pieces of you are being shifted around and you think that you can’t take much more,
remember that what fills that space next is completely up to you. Revel in all that possibility, and then dive in.” -Regan Beisenherz- … Continue readingEdify.
“There is a link between color & light and memory & feeling. And all instances are captured in one of them, or all of them, and those images stay forever engrained in the fabric of our days.
That photo that hangs on every refrigerator, in every house that you have lived in since college; its faded colors are no less vivid to you.
In your mind, there are no corners missing, and the yellow sweater that she was wearing hangs now in your own closet.
(Only you never wear it, because ironically, you don’t like to think of how much you miss her.)
Now that particular color yellow always makes you grin. And even though you never realize it, your lover does.
He watches with intense pride as the icing on your birthday cake (that same bright yellow) creaks across your face in a thin smile.
One of a million different smiles that you have, and no one realizes except him that it was for much more than just the wish you made.”
-Regan L. Beisenherz-
… Continue reading…and now for something completely personal.
I’m not sure what it says about me that in early December, on the eve of my 29th birthday, I am swaying to folk music in my pajamas. It is
Continue readingPart 2: “For anyone who has ever had a mission” Statement
“You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backwards” J. Thurber I love that the beginning of something always feels more like a