Goodbye NY

It seems appropriate that in my last visit with a free place to stay and time to kill that I find how much I like hanging out in New York City. With no real plan I spent several hours wandering. No ideas or destinations, just walking with my Ipod on and some Sigur Ros bringing me to another place in my mind. It is such a different world down there, and or the first time I found I really like it. My previous reaction has always been that it is too fast paced for me, but I find that if you don't let the city set your pace than this is a mute point. The culture, the style, the people, it all becomes this strange world that begs to be wandered through. After spending a week with Jesh De Rox, I have found myself experimenting a lot with textures. What better place to harvest samples to work with but the streets and buildings of the city.  The anonymity of the city allows a certain freedom to be who ever you want and no one will question it, if they even notice it at all. 

Although it may be less convenient I think I will be spending more time, getting to know my new friend.... New York City.

(the second picture is Will Smith's house in I Am Legend, so if the world ever gets taken over by night dwelling cannibalistic zombies, this is a good place to stay....... for awhile ; )

Here goes try two at getting this blog off the ground. I spent last week with some of 

the most amazing people I've ever met. I attended a workshop led by Jesh De Rox http://jeshderoxweddings.blogspot.com/ and Tamara Lackey  http://www.tamaralackeyblog.com/. They are both amazing people and we were all blessed to have been a part of their sharing their knowledge with us. Thank you both, and to everyone else that made that experience what it was. I went to learn about textures and photoshop and photography, and all be it I did learn about those things, but mostly I learned about life. I learned about Love and interaction, about fear and listening to that little voice that can so often talk you out of the best of ideas, because they may not fit into a definition.  I learned that it is not in the action that the greatness lies but in the courage to do it.  I learned to be free. 

I hope that I can be the planter of seeds in all those around me, the way those around me have been for me. I don't often take the time to stop and look at where I have come from and how lucky I am to be where I am, where ever that may be........ but I'm starting to. 

To all my new BFFLs thank you again, and to all the BFFLs I've yet to meet, I look forward to it. See you soon.