Growth Spurt

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Looking back on 2023, I’m stroke by how an amazing growth period it was for me - spiritually, most importantly, and also, photographically.

My quest for more being versus doing is ongoing, and surprisedly, I’m reaching fulfilling depth of Inner Wisdom. I am now searching for why the ego is always being beat up in what I hear. I know there is a good purpose for the ego. We are not created with bad stuff, we learn it! A dear friend of mine suggested we have ego “to get shit done”. My daughter, Bridget, says the same, and contrasts it with, too much ego - narcissism.

I’ve put up my reticular activator to ego, and shortly thereafter I heard the Dalai Lama and Eckhart Tolle both talk about reconciling doing and being. My take - healthy ego is having LOVE oriented strength of self-esteem, humbly knowing, and gratefully reaching, passionate service capability. More on this in a longer writing of I LIVE LOVE NOW, when I figure it out, for me.

Photographically, I was prolific in 2023. I tagged over 600 images as ones I like - pretty much unheard of for me. And, I didn’t pull out the big guns - the PhaseOne equipment. Most of the images were taken with compact cameras and a monopod. I love it! I think the impressionistic style I’m adopting, and the convenience of having a compact camera with me all the time is resulting in all this fun I am having. See my gallery website MESipe.com. I am amazed at the skies. I am making great progress on my passion book SKYWARD, which I was motivated to do when I captured TO LIGHT, FOR PATTY in February 2022.

Plane site - the black walnut trees must have grown three feet in 2023