Week 7: Still Life – Camera Playing catch-up: Experimenting with my hair and my camera(s) today. Over the shoulder/fro shot of one of my first 35mm’s (Minolta), my Samsung Galaxy S3 (gets most of my photo action), and my Sony A55 (still learning). Taken with my Tablet camera – cropped, bordered, color filter.
Author Archives: LaShawnda Jones
3 THINGS I DON’T WANT TO HEAR IN A SERMON
I don’t like sharing negative media, but I heard, read and saw some things this week that are completely against my belief, knowledge and understanding of Jesus Christ and the Word God delivered to us, His people, through Jesus….
The Oscars: A Night to Remember
“When you got God, you got a friend and that friend is YOU!” And other quotes from the 2014 Oscars ceremony.
Photo Challenge: Birds in Flight
Stalking birds – trying to get them to fly – on the way to church, brunch, then a movie on a grey day in New York City.
A Fucked-Up Life and God
Originally posted on Cyndy Lavoie:
(Warning: if you are not okay with profanity to relay intense emotion than I suggest you do not read this post.) I used to think the point of life was making it pretty, presentable, acceptable. And so I spent innumerable years and money and focus trying to make my life…
A grown man cried in my arms tonight.
From my own experience, it’s when I try my hardest to be strong – exhibiting my idea of strength, anyway – that I am the most brittle. In my brittleness, I easily break. However, as I learned again that evening, it is in my gentleness that others see power and strength in me.
I Believe in Love: An evening with Elton John
Two simple words. Spoken to people in response of the misery they continually dump into my my life – my ears, my mind, my heart, my spirit. People who refuse to deal with their problems partly because they usually have a sympathetic listener in me. As soon as I feel my eyes glaze over, the words slip out…
Poem: WHEN I THINK ABOUT
When I think about / How I loved / I mean / How I wanted to love…
Song & Verse: SAY SOMETHING by A Great Big World & Christina Aguilera
Just heard this in the grocery store…. Stunning. Raw. Timely. Nothing to add. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2U0Ivkn2Ds&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Book Review: DAVID AND GOLIATH by Malcolm Gladwell
The stories in David and Goliath reconfirmed that all the challenges in my own life have been blessings. Certainly, in the short-term, pain does not feel like a blessing. But the way you process your pain and build from it over time, strengthens you and adds wisdom and insight that you otherwise would not have.
Harvest Life 