Rethinking business plan - I was going to ask for advice but then I think if I would just do what I tell others I would have all the advice I need. My biggest problem is probably discipline. After my fourth year of keeping books, I am, once again, pondering direction. My first goal was not to drive the family budget into the ground while I followed a dream. My second goal was to be where God wanted me to be. Photography is more than sticking a camera in someone's face or transferring my passion to others. I tell myself, FACE IT, some people will never understand that moment in time, that second of joy, when all the word is right and the click of the camera eye freezes it, giving a place for all the special people.

It is hard to describe a journey that is deeper than the outside appearance. I do know that God places more worth on what I do than I do. My camera touches lives in ways I will never know about. Sure there is a print that can be looked at and shared around, but it is the relationships and the hearts that I touch that matter most.

Maybe as a child, I heard so many stories and never saw the pictures. Maybe somehow when my mother discovered all of my baby pictures ruined by a leaking roof, she transferred some desire to get the pictures back. Did I somehow think, the pictures were more than paper dripping wet and running with blurred ink.

The youngest picture I have of myself is around 18 months old. At 10, I was given a camera for Christmas. Snap, snap, snap. I still remember an image I took of feet coming out from under covers. The arrangement, composition, and perspective remain in my mind. I have that image burned into my mind. Happy Feet! A happy time in our lives before a very tumultuous time.     . .

I sit here going on and on.   See discipline.  Gotta go.