Tag: Photography

Ira Glass on the Creative Process (www.getoutthebox.org)

Ira’s advice? Make a LOT of stuff, DON’T be afraid to suck, and DON’T give up. Similar to Malcolm Gladwell’s advice that mastery of any complex craft typically requires about 10,000 hours (4-5 years of full-time effort).

“A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.” ~ Dorthea Lange

I’ve been a photographer for 28 years, reading tarot for almost 10, studying social systems and offering news analysis for 6 of those 10. I’m now studying Jungian psychology and communications. It was always my experience as an observer behind a camera that taught me to be an intuitive reader.

I’ll be offering tarot general readings here and will make personal readings available at a future time TBA.

Ira Glass on the Creative Process (www.getoutthebox.org)

Me at the old studio in Indianapolis, 2008. After five long years of journeying I’m setting up space again at the new homestead in southern Indiana, where I’ve been reading a lot of Wendell Berry’s writing. This rang out like a bell:

“I am a pilgrim, but my pilgrimage has been wandering and unmarked. Often what has looked like a straight line to me has been a circling or a doubling back. I have been in the Dark Wood of Error any number of times. I have known something of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, but not always in that order. The names of many snares and dangers have been made known to me, but I have seen them only in looking back. Often I have not known where I was going until I was already there. I have had my share of desires and goals, but my life has come to me or I have gone to it mainly by way of mistakes and surprises. Often I have received better than I deserved. Often my fairest hopes have rested on bad mistakes. I am an ignorant pilgrim, crossing a dark valley. And yet for a long time, looking back, I have been unable to shake off the feeling that I have been led – make of that what you will.” ~ Wendell Berry