by jamesbondly | May 12, 2022 | About Life, About Photography, Spiritual
TEND OUR GARDEN Back to Eden I’m homegrown, growin’ my own, and I need ya Need ya to beg my pardon, to tend my garden Joe Walsh After getting a big check for his work with the Eagles, Walsh bought a farm with a lake in Saxtons River, Vermont, intending to...
by jamesbondly | Apr 18, 2022 | About Life, About Photography, Spiritual
The First Supper The Easter Promise Raised as a Christian, my father’s side Catholic, and my mother’s side Lutheran was the fertile soil for this discussion. I lived next door to my grandma Bondly but visited my grandma and grandpa Jordahl on the farm...
by jamesbondly | Mar 10, 2022 | About Life, About Writing, Spiritual
The demonstrator handed me a folded piece of paper and instructed me to read what he wrote on the note he passed me, then whisper what I read to the person sitting next to me. Then the audience would do the same, each, in turn, turning to the person next to them and...
by jamesbondly | Mar 5, 2022 | About Life, About Photography, Spiritual
Winter of Discontent Spring is coming Spring is coming; I am counting the days. I know it is senseless to wish away any time in life. I can’t help myself; I love experiencing the childhood joy of spring. Life seems to blossom afresh as the melting white snow...
by jamesbondly | Feb 18, 2022 | About Photography, Spiritual
FINDING GOD Photographing creation An Astro-photographic primer—the Why and How The heavens declare the glory of God; The skies proclaim the work of his hands. WHY: Humanity has always gazed to the stars enamored by the beauty above. Our minds are reaching for an...
by jamesbondly | Nov 13, 2021 | About Life, Spiritual
CURLY’S LAW THE CROSS BEFORE THE CROWN “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” Ralph Waldo Emerson “Life is a...
