by jamesbondly | Jan 5, 2023 | About Life, About Photography, Spiritual
The BIG Bang The beginning must have a beginner Winter solstices bring short days to the great north. It is Astronomical twilight at 6:39 AM. Checking my Photopills photography app, Blue hour begins at 7:58, Golden hour emerges at 8:12, and sunrise at 8:35 AM. The sun...
by jamesbondly | Dec 28, 2022 | About Life, About Photography, Spiritual
ABANDONED DREAMS I wonder if they just packed a few things and left. Was the departure forced, desperation, or escape? Why was the house not purchased and repaired? Why are these ghosts left behind to decay? These relics of the past all have stories to tell but remain...
by jamesbondly | Dec 28, 2022 | About Life, About Photography, About Writing, Spiritual, Storytelling-Tall Tales
The Digital Abyss Plenty to do, but not enough time Everything, including casual conversations, lectures, presentations, job interviews, books, movies, sermons, and the parables of the Bible, is artful storytelling—some creative non-fiction, some fiction, and...
by jamesbondly | Dec 19, 2022 | About Life, About Photography, About Writing, Spiritual
The Christmas Carol “There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.” ― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol Two feet of snow blows into six-foot drifts. A minus fifteen degrees make the snow crunch as we walk. I heard...
by jamesbondly | Dec 18, 2022 | About Life, About Photography, Spiritual
FINDING TRUTH In a Fear-Mongering Society Part two of THE VIRTUE OF COURAGE In a Fear-Mongering Society Truth in any source of media, written or digital, is rare. Nor can the Truth be found in the church, Protestant or Catholic. Truth is not from science, the...
by jamesbondly | Nov 20, 2022 | About Life, About Photography, Spiritual
MORNING HAS BROKEN The Grateful Photograph Each morning at dawn, the bells of the church across the lake play the hymn from a poem, “Morning Has Broken,” I love the tune. I thought it was a tune written by Cat Stevens in 1971. I wanted to include the...
