wayfaringbard

A Note About Life   There is a quote by Oscar Wilde which states that people rarely live, most of us just exist. It is perhaps not the exact wording, but the meaning of it is there. It is very easy in the mediocre setting of day to day life, with the hum drum job that seems to get you nowhere except frustrated and bills that have the tendency to cost you more than you make, to forget how to truly live. We simply struggle. We clock our hours, go home to our families, or alone, pay our bills, take care of chores, and sleep. We set our days on repeat so it becomes an endless stream of the same day lived over and over again with little variatio

Dirty South    Hello from Georgia! Granted I am writing this a little belatedly, but its better late than never. :)    So far I have spent 3 weeks during survey work for a Georgia electrical company. They are setting up a new transmission line that is to span 55 miles and I am a part of one of two teams that are surveying the area. Today ended my first day of my fourth and final week here and it has already gotten off to a great start because we found a paleo-Indian site! Finding wonderful historic artifacts makes my job so rewarding. Especially knowing that I am holding something in my hands that no one has seen in hundreds or even thous

Photographic Faces There has been one lesson I have learned from this past weekend: I love faces. I like taking pictures of faces. I want to catch the expressions of their emotions in the moment. I have many pictures like that from this past weekend. Having spent time amongst a people and culture whose history extends back much further in time than we Americans can claim for ourselves, well, you find certain faces. You find the ones that tell stories. And I am not just speaking about the creases and lines on the faces of the elders. It's the high curve of the cheekbone (a trait both my sister, my mother, and myself have) , dark pools for eye