The Rough Draft

Photography is perceptual, values based, symbolic, interpretive, constructivist. Little did I know when I was a 7 year-old taking a picture with my mom's Olympus 35mm automatic film camera at Universal Studios that everybody would be a photographer in another 30 -35 years. Doesn't seem like a long time, but it's relative, you know? Everything is relative. We can only conceptualize anything in the context of anything ELSE.
..Little did I know that they (we) were photographers already, creating mental snapshots in our minds, to go through later, greatest hits... that's a helluva trade off for greatest gifts.... The now. The present. Cliche. Why? Same reason as rote prayer. Prayer without action. Faith without works isn't faith. Faith IS works. You DO what you believe most in, most deeply in, most feeling, pathos in. Talmage .. mere intellectual asent, vs. faith ... Psychologically, nothing else will constitute the impetus that gets you off your butt! I know this can be so I'm going to put my butt on the line, money where my mouth is, I'm the fall guy, the buck stops here. I AM ACCOUNTABLE. I VOUCH. THIS ONE'S ON ME.

That's Faith. I know without reason and I roll the dice, for all the moolah. Bring it on! Bigger the risk, bigger the gain, go big or go home... No wonder gambling is addictive. It's the counterfeit for faith. It's superstition. It's a seductive fake. Like lead in our bones.

There is no growth, expansion without risk.

So, divinity is risk.

09-07-22 Heaven or hell, good intentions

Everything and everyone is a work in progress, and each of us furthers our self by that which we manifest in the physical world. I am not going to overemphasize editing here; these are my musings, contemplations, newborn ideas, and in varying stages of development, and thus, subject to change. Also, by way of caveat, I believe in the "law of conservation of truth," and so also, that there are no original ideas. Most - probably all - of my ideas are influenced by others, so I am not going to make a huge effort at bibliography, but I will make an honest endeavor in this regard, and if I don't cite Walt Whitman here, or Joseph Campbell there, no one need worry that there is anything nefarious afoot. 😄

I am going to disable comments, since these are my journal entries, not points for debate. If you would like to expound on any ideas, feel free to do so on your page. I'd like for anything here to spread and cause more love and light in the world.

If you want to discuss anything with me, I welcome that also.

Thanks for tuning in 😊

Nate