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| Wildflower along Coldwater Creek, Mammoth Lakes, CA. August 2013 |
A former co-worker of mine at the Museum – the Curator, actually – had a sign hanging in her office that read in big, block letters, “Pretty pictures don’t change anything.” Although in theory I agree with her, my silent response was always, “Yeah, but they sure make us feel better.”
After indulging my passions of travel and photography for
seven weeks in Spain and Morocco, I am now back at home… with not much to
do. A job I enjoyed, although incredibly
stressful at times, is gone and now the process of figuring out what to do next
have begun. I know it will be OK in the
end. I have a sneaking suspicion that
this will be a turning point for me and am thinking about my options, including
going back to school and, in fact, learning one of those “in-demand” careers
that I can take to Spain with me in a few years. As I look at all the different curriculums, I
have to laugh at the courses I’d have to take. “Pre-Calculus? At my age? Physics?
You gotta be kidding me!!”
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| Iris in bloom at the Maui Botanical Gardens, May 2013. |
But when I begin to feel overwhelmed by all the decisions I have to make, I’ve found that playing with my photos – editing them, making them beautiful - never fails to cheer me up.
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| Wild Iris at Point Reyes, CA. March 2014 |
