Five Years of The Love Priorities Blog

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I started THE LOVE PRIORITIES blog in the middle of 2015. It seems like just yesterday, and yet, a lot has happened with me and my love priorities over the last five years - Images captured in wonderful places, family happenings, Alzheimer’s, stroke, multigenerational home completion, books published, life events, grandkids, and more. I would not have imagined so many feelings, if I hadn’t journaled. I am grateful it came to be.

 Thanks to my brother Richard and our shared involvement in his third book of poems, SMELL THE ROSES, feel the soil, reach the sky, I have grown as a contemplative photographer, or what I call the process of image reflecting. It is Zen, for me.

 It is fun for me to blog, and share my Self-realizing, Connecting and Giving (The Love Priority Principles). As a Life-Wealth planner, I encouraged clients to record their life story and ‘Transferring’ (one of the nine activities of daily loving) them to family and friends – It is a process that benefits both the giver and the beneficiary.

 I would not have started blogging if I hadn’t discovered The Love Priorities. Discovered, late in my planning career, was unfortunate for my Clients, because I lacked the SCG understanding while practicing. However, the ‘never too late’ idea prevails. Consequently, I wrote ADVOCATE PLANNING, To Do What You Love To Do and make available free, at www.MikeSipe.com. And, I stay in front of interested former clients, family, and non-client friends, with my love priorities blog.

 I posted 150 blogs between 2015 and 2020 - 100 will be reproduced in a book - the first printed volume, of hopefully four planned books, for the next three, five-year increments. This may be my most treasured gift to family and friends. It is me, as I discover and share my feelings, at the moment. Nothing planned. 

 One of my favorite fifty images www.MikeSipe.com/buy-prints was captured in 2011, while on a wonderful week with Elizabeth and John McGinty in Tuscany, Italy. Castellina was captured with a very long lens, and dramatically cropped. Consequently, I can only enlarge to about 13x16 before it breaks down. At 13x16 it has a nice impressionistic affect. This was unplanned, and I’ll accept as a gift - pleasing me.

Castellina