"Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.” 
Sue Monk Kidd

Stories that matter

There are moments of our life when we feel so blessed to be a certain place at a certain time because we sense that we are seeing, hearing, and experiencing is a sacred moment in a family’s life.  Then, too, that experience changes us because we were present and a witness to this sacred space and […]

“I need to fear God because no one is like Him.” One story of a reunion 11 years in the making.

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April 16, 2016

From my arrival in Varanasi, clinging to my luggage to keep it from falling off the small bicycle rickshaw that escorted me into the city to my last morning there spent drinking spicy warm chai and wandering the narrow streets, I was in love with this place.  You just have a sense of the age […]

among pilgrims in Varanasi

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July 29, 2014

The Taj Mahal; one most well known and recoginzed buildings in the world in a massive white mausoleum that stands on the banks of the Yamuna River in Agra, Uttar Pradesh.  Nearly everyone has seen a picture of the massive building but actually seeing it does not disappoint; it is a surreal and overwhelming. The […]

tourists at the Taj

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July 4, 2014

One of the guides our team worked with while in India was a man named Narenndra. He was kind and constantly went above and beyond to help us understand and enjoy our time in his country.  One afternoon he took a friend and I to his family’s village.  It was one of the most special […]

A village called Harna

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June 6, 2014

This image will always make me feel the moment it was taken; music, laughter, incense, dancing. I so wanted to capture the fluid movement and brilliant color of this beautiful place. Celebrating the Holi festival of colors in India has been on my bucket list since the first time I saw the colorful images of […]

Celebrating Holi

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May 19, 2014

Outside of Bundi we visited several small sugarcane fields with many workers harvesting the sugar cane, grinding it in large machines, pressing it, cooking, straining , and cooling it.  I grew to love sugarcane juice when I lived in Africa.  We often bought it roadside freshly pressed with a little lime and ginger.   Upon visiting […]

textile mill & sugar cane mill outside of Jodhpur

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May 10, 2014

Delhi is one of the most populated cities in the world with close to 22 million people living within the huge city and it can feel like a blur as the busy market streets almost seem to carry you along a current of folks headed to work, school, prayers, shopping, and home.  It feels like […]

Delhi- India part 3

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May 1, 2014

Jodhpur was one of my favorite places we visited during our time in India. It is known as the “sun city” or the “blue city” because of the many blue houses painted blue around the fort in the old city.  Jodhpur is near the center of Rajasthan and attracts many people from India and the […]

Jodhpur. India part 2

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April 30, 2014

The most sacred parts of my time in India were not touring the Taj or seeing the Ganges but the hours I spent roaming the streets of small villages or busy streets in the city armed with my camera and a small photo book full of pictures of my story seeking to catch a glimpse […]

Meanderings in a village. India part 1

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April 24, 2014