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I’ve been invited by a local shop to submit a portfolio of images for review.  The caveat is that the images must be of an obvious spiritual subject matter and/or have titles that evoke a spiritual ethos.  What makes an image spiritual?  There are undoubtedly objective as well as subjective measures.  Here are two photos that I think many people, without need of a title, would consider spiritual in nature:

But what about these images?

In the end, I’ll do my best to pull together a representative grouping.  I’ll let you know what happens.  Meanwhile, if you have thoughts on the subject, please let me know.

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I feel like Kermit the Frog today.  I found myself dressing nearly completely in green.  I’ve been thinking of photoshoots and all of the items happen to be green.  I’m obsessed with cultivating a little winter garden in a sunny nook of the house I live in, and it just so happens that most of the plants are rambling green vines.  Here are a few of my favorite green photos of the day, taken in and around Boston.  Enjoy.

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Starfish

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Serenity

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

— from Reinhold Niebuhr’s Serenity Prayer

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Butterflies have always been a part of my life.  Quite a variety made their way through rural southern Virginia.  My brothers and I found a little green pod once.  We watched it grow transparent and out drip a wet-winged Monarch.   White and gold butterflies were most common.  Every now and then a blue butterfly would appear and that was an event that delighted everyone.  Today living in the city I don’t see many butterflies at all unless they are on exhibit at local science or natural history museums.  But whatever I experienced in my youth continues to inform my creative self to this day because I continue to draw upon these winged creatures for inspiration.

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