maybe they have but haven't found the courage yet to share their voice?

This really speaks to me right now. And I LOVE the image used - wide expanse with hazy view. Thank you for this launch point for my day!

I hear this, loud and clear. I found myself, literally, trying to give a story away this week. Trying to hand it off to someone else to write. I'm listening and writing today. Thanks, Jen, for the reminder.

I try to do this, too. Thanks for the reminder, Jen. xo

our stories are like our fingerprints. distinct. like no one else's. completely unique and completely human. it's why giving people a voice is so important. we NEED everyone's stories. we NEED your story.

OMG YES! This resonates with me so much! Last night I made a list in my journal of things I hate to admit. It felt sublime to write them down, to put them out there, nothing extraordinary happened except to say I am making peace with the secrets. Some of them are flat out lies.

Your post today stopped me on my tracks -- thank you.

:) aint that the truth

i love what rowena said -- that's a point it's so easy for me to forget because it always amazes me the universal thread that seems to run through all of our stories...

i feel these words, deep inside of me.
thank you, thank you for sending the journal out so quickly. it is lovely.
: )
x

I do love your words and I was wondering how you place them right on your wonderful photos. I want to try that!

Nancy,

I'm totally old school over here. I know there's a way to use Photo Shop and do the words on the photos, but I don't do that kind of thing. I'm literally printing out the images at my local drugstore, writing on them with a black pen, and scanning it with my scanner. Higher-tech ways exist, but I'm as much of an analog girl as I can get away with being.

Thanks for the response. I find that I do things in an old school round-about way too! Often I am sure there is an easier way, I just don't know it! :)
Love your work. Thanks for all you do.