I am struck dumb with wonder so often these days in the presence of Her beauty. Words fail me. Images fail me. Yes, over the years I've found (as perhaps you have also found) that playing with words & films is fun, providing a thrilling means for self-expression, communication, connection - Yet photographs & books are only murky mirrors to the Truth of the Thing - can there be any substitute for walking in a beautiful space without speaking or doing? How frequently these days I pick up the camera or pen only to put it down - how could I place a lens or page between me & my life & thus rob myself of yet another moment of beauty? To what end?

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