[ I gave this reflection as part of a Martin Luther King service.] Good Morning! A photograph, a certain kind of very rare photograph, can come to stand for a period of history. It can somehow capture a moment larger than the scene depicted in the frame itself, and most relevant to my comments this […]
Revisiting a Guiding Idea: Creating A Progress Culture in a School
Recently I had two photographs framed. Made by Katelyn Jones, member of The Westminster Schools Class of 2013, right now they are leaning against the wall of my office ready to be hung. By digitally layering images on top of each other, she created something compelling. There is a magical, somehow dreamlike, quality to each. They leave […]
Approaching a Mystery: A Shaft of Shade and Lightning Over the Ocean
I have become so used to getting immediate responses. I bet you have too.So when I looked at this picture in the moments after I took it earlier this week using “Instagram” and my iPhone, I wanted an instant answer to the shaded column dissecting the middle of the photograph, yet instead the mystery just […]
Travel Post from Norris Lake: The Walk Outside Our Door
I wrote a blog in December entitled, “Travel Post From Atlanta: The Walk Outside Our Door,” in which I argued one doesn’t have to get far away to get away. We have been spending the last week on Norris Lake in East Tennessee. This is a place that is as familiar to us as our […]
Visiting Waikiki, Diamond Head, and Lanikai
I have just returned from a trip to Oahu, Hawaii, and I was reminded time and again of a simple truth: beautiful places are nourishing. From a lovely afternoon hiking up Diamond Head above Waikiki to a day spent in Lanikai, during which we kayaked to a small island, swam in a cove, snorkeled, and […]
This light will guide you… | Sewanee: The University of the South
This light will guide you… | Sewanee: The University of the South.This link above is to a film compiled from various timelapses, and it came today with an Annual Fund ask from Sewanee, my alma mater. I love this sort of photography. The care and precision required to create time lapse photography is remarkable, and […]